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Howard, I've had a look and cannot see anyone in the Inverness vicinity. TR Register had problems with the google and apple store at the beginning charging for the apps when it was meant to be free. I think there are free versions. hope you manage to get sorted. Dave

Howard - have a look at the TR Register breakdown app and see if there's any help nearby. https://www.tr-register.co.uk/resources/app Dave

Yes, thanks to Nigel and Dale for organising the event and the lunch afterwards, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. It has proved a rather expensive trip for us with one of the con rods making a bid for freedom on the A1 yesterday afternoon!

Hi This car now has a new custodians John and Susan Bonnett. Here's a link to them announcing this on the TR Register forum https://www.tr-register.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/82180-the-andrew-flexney-tr3a/ , along with some nice photos. Dave

First run for the TR4, depending on the weather forecast I may swop the soft top for the hard top.

Hi Tim and Tim Yes there is space for bottle between the seat and the inner sill, on both my 4 and 6 Dave

Hi Anthony I am sure that which ever TR you end up getting you'll enjoy it, have a look at the buyers guides on the TR register, link here https://www.tr-register.co.uk/tr-buyers-guides. You could go to one of the TR local area meets and talk to the owners of the cars, better in summer when the hibernating cars come out! A few points to consider - Triumph changed the 4 cylinder engine size from 1991 for the early cars to 2138 for the TR4 and 4a, and fitted the 6 cylinder 2.5 engine with PI for the TR5 and 6. The 4 cylinder engine is a wet liner engine so it's relatively easy to change the capacity by changing the liners and pistons, my 4 is a 2290 with 89mm liners and pistons. Like the spitfire/GT6 there are plenty of tuning options for the engine along with many suspension upgrades etc. The TRs up until the TR4 had a simple chassis with a live axle rear suspension, the 4A, 5 and 6 got changes to the chassis to accommodate independent rear suspension. So the later cars, as standard have a more compliant ride As you have triumphs you probably know that you need to have an overdrive, the early cars have it on 2,3 and 4 whilst the later TR6's have it on 3 and 4. The 4 has the largest boot, the 4A, 5 and 6 loose some space because of the changes to the chassis for the independent rear suspension. Throughout the production of the TR range from 1954 by far the majority of those cars made were for export, mainly to the US. These US specification cars are now being reimported to UK with many being converted to righthand drive. The later 5 and 6 for the US had the PI replaced by carburettors and emission stuff which means they had a lower BHP. The 4, 4A and 5 came with the option of a Surrey top which combines the benefits of a soft top with a hard top, with a removable roof section which could be replaced by a fabric roof, or simply left open. There are factory hardtops for the rest and some after market ones. I have driven both spitfires and a GT6 and whilst the TRs are a narrow car they are a bit wider than the spitfire/GT6. You don't get the excellent access to the engine/front suspension you do with the spitfire/GT6 on the TRs. Dave

....and what's the exchange rate between Scottish pennies and english pennies?

Not so much my 'modification' more one I inherited when I picked up a 2.5PI estate from a main dealers Poole in 1978. Travelling up the M3 in the dark, couldn't work out what the noise was from the rear axle above about 55 mph, pulled in the services at Fleet so I could get some light and found out that the rear tyres were remoulds and they had begun to delaminate. Needless to say I carried on at a very much reduced rate and then spent Saturday finding a complete set of new tyres!

Mazda MX5 seats for comfort and CV drive shafts for drivability and returning to 80 section Michelin XAS tyres.

Whilst I would never rely on not being picked up by ANPR cameras, the ones on the Portuguese toll motorways didn't pick up my silver on black number plates earlier this year. Dave

We'll see you all in Borrowdale. Dave and Jackie

Nuala's funeral is on Tuesday 16th August. There's a family cremation in Carlisle in the morning, followed by a service of Thanksgiving at St Andrews Church, Stonethwaite, Borrowdale as per the funeral directors notice in the earlier post. Dave

It’s with great sadness and shock that we have to announce that Nuala died suddenly on Tuesday at home in Borrowdale. Known to many of us through her participation in CT events in one of her spitfires. Retiring from hotel ownership last autumn we know she had many adventures planned for her retirement, not least getting all her cars on the road at the same time! To many, us included, she was more than a fellow car enthusiast she was a good friend, and she leaves a big hole. We will post details of her funeral arrangements when they are known. Dave and Jackie Batchelor

Hi Amy - you could try this on your windows - Renovo Plastic Window Polish (https://www.renovointernational.com/car-care/plastic-window-polish.php). I have used it on my soft top windows and it does work, and it's lots cheaper than replacing the windows! Dave

Made it into the Peak District today

I thought the stove, kettle and coffee would be top of your list.

Danny I cannot comment on having a logic box fitted to spitfires, but having recently had one fitted on my TR4 is brilliant. It gives you easy access to a seven speed gearbox, gone is the need to remember to drop out of overdrive before changing up. If you do go down this route you need to change/modify your on/off switch to a momentary one. Dave

Interesting, on the Summer Trial this weekend two cars made a similar mistake of filling up with BP ultimate diesel when they thought they were using BP Ultimate petrol. The filling station was only a couple of miles from the hotel. It was after 11:00pm before they got it out of the tanks, it took an age to get it out of the Volvo because it had a foam filled safety tank.

Paul You don't say whether you've got a PI or carbs on your TR6. Anyway I suggest that you make contact with your local TR register group, there's one in South Wales - https://www.tr-register.co.uk/groups Dave

Hi Alan The TR Register so a number of buyers guides for the TR range (https://www.tr-register.co.uk/tr-buyers-guides) which are a good starting point. Dave

Hi Wendy and Darren Sainsburys at Ripley is where we often get petrol, it usually has E5 98RON petrol at a very reasonable price, £1.66/litre on Tuesday. Hope the weather is good for the run. Dave

As you say it's a very good idea to have a rear fog light. On my TR4 I have converted the offside reversing light to be a fog light using a red LED bulb and retaining white lens. The nearside remains a reversing light and changing it to a LED means the light at the back is better than it was with incandescent bulbs when reversing. Dave

I think the answer to your question is that it will depend on the product you are going to use and you need to follow their instructions What follows is taken from the Sika product data sheet for the paint I used - Substrate Preparation Concrete substrates must be prepared mechanically using abrasive blast cleaning or scarifying equipment to remove cement laitance and achieve an open textured surface. Weak concrete must be removed and surface defects such as blowholes and voids must be fully exposed. Repairs to the substrate, filling of blowholes/voids and surface levelling can be carried out using appropriate products from the Sikafloor ® , SikaDur ® and SikaGard ® range of materials. The concrete or screed substrate has to be primed or levelled in order to achieve an even surface. High spots must be removed by e.g. grinding. All dust, loose and friable material must be completely removed from all surfaces before application of the product, preferably by brush and/or vacuum. I had my builders run a grinder over the surface when I was ready for painting it. I then brushed and hoovered the dust, letting the particles settle out before repeating several times.