Slimboyfat

I remember the car, and the nice chap that owned it. It was Ice Blue, and a very well known local car. His mate still visits us regularly, and still talks fondly about him. 

I have several Spitfires with alloy bonnets. Nice idea, very light, but not very practical for every day use. They are easily dented, and they are even more prone to stress cracking than the standard steel bonnets.

The first I got to know about the Lynx was when my Dad walked through Triumph Experimental on nights when there was no one around and took some sneaky pictures of some of them with my 126 Instamatic (tiny cartridge film camera from the early 70's). 

Are you going to get a certain gentleman round to set the injection up for you?

I'm doing a couple of these at the moment, no problem with bearing supply (or anything else come to that).

I'm not sure where the rumour started that there were supply problems with parts for these early engines, we have built loads, and supplied parts for same for over 30 years with rarely a problem. There may be the occasional undersize that's temporarily unavailable, but usually sorted in time. Always worth checking with your supplier before grinding to a particular size.

I have done a few of these in my time. Record for putting chrome trims on a late car was a couple of minutes per side (as long as it took to run the factory tool around the seal/trim).

Worst Triumphs for this are MKI Stags which had really narrow gap in the stainless trim into which to insert the tool. Even I struggled with these.

I always use a little bit of lubricant on the seal like washing up liquid so that the tool slides around easily.

 

Every day is a classic drive it day for me. 

Thanks Craig, and Tim.

Yes I have a problem with our saloons, and estates as well as most of them were built at the Triumph with none of the engine sizes given as options, for instance Clares 2600 MKIII 

On the gallery drop down there are all the usual model sections some of which I have loaded up pictures to this morning. However some of our stuff doesn't easily fit into any of the sections, such as our Atlas's, and some of the prototypes?

I'm not moaning, I think the new website/forum is fantastic!

 

I'm glad I bought our Triumph's (and Standard's) when I did, I certainly wouldn't be able to do it again now. 

Our TR5 collection cost me approximately what a scabby PI saloon might make today.

20 hours ago, McJim said:

Why is Tim not letting you start in the Pony?

I've never seen a Pony.

I feel a campaign coming on   #lettheponyrun  or #thatsaloadofpony.

Jim.

I think he is jealous. Pony pictured lurking in the background in the workshop.

28 minutes ago, McJim said:

What a lucky shot!

Was the van badly damaged after the helicopter crashed into the back of it?

Jim.

No but the corrosion set in not long after this due to those neer-do-wells piddling up the side of it.

Tim says I'm not allowed to do it in the Pony so I have to pick a car from the queue of projects, and fully restore that. However I have half a dozen other restorations on the go at the moment that need to progress before I start another. 

Single pack acrylic.

I still have a very large tin of original French Blue 'appropriated' from the factory paint shops that came with one of our experimental saloons which was sold to the one of the chaps from Experimental who later sold me the car. 

I don;t think cellulose paint was used in the motor industry post WW2? 

Quoted from sparky_spit-

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What is missing though is the nearside teardrop shaped glass window (see picture of the offside one which I have).  Does anybody have a nearside glass window available?  A long shot, I know, but I thought I’d ask.

 

 

We have some odds and sods of glass from various aftermarket fastback Spitfire hard tops. However they aren't marked up as to what they are off, and I have no reference here. A good picture of your existing one with some dimensions might help, email me at work.

David

Quoted from McJim Too-

How many people turn up at the start with a atlas.

Jim.

I'm definately not doing it in the Atlas this time. 

I fancy something a little more relaxed in my prep for the 2020 event.

 

Maybe take the daily driver next time.

There is a Churchill tool for that, but a decent hub pulling tool should do it.

Go with much stiffer springs before fitting a front anti roll bar. The springs on all models (apart from the rear's on early MKII estates) are far to soft.  

All models tend to understeer without roll bar, fitting one to an otherwise standard car only promotes increased understear. 

 

Quoted from MSter-

Hi does anyone know or have the small rectangular plate that has one round hole and one elongated hole that fits the bonnet to the chassis?? Anyone know where I can get one other than make one up?? Can’t seem to see them on canleys

Here you go;

https://www.canleyclassics.com/demoapp/?ptno=121254

Quoted from efp

Hi Paul

which is slightly uprated springs from Dave at Canley Classics who is very fussy about what he sells, coupled with adjustable seat shocks (Spax in my case, though I know others don't care for them)  

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Just want to make it clear that we didn't supply the Spax dampers, just the springs.

We have NEVER sold Spax dampers.

Quoted from benblaney

He still hasn't come through for me.  I sent him three hundred quid back in June, and as soon as he got the money he went quiet.  I found a phone number somewhere and left him a voicemail, then he got back to me saying he'd been unwell and he'd get it done soon.  Silence.  That was a month ago.

Ben were those NOS ones I gave you the link to on Ebay any good?

Quoted from 1968Vitesse25

The  small chassis suspension isn't terribly weak. Ball joints and bearings are shared with the much bigger, heavier and more powerful TR6.

TR's have larger top ball joints.

Quoted from Mark Hammond

Beware if you are going to replace the whole lower rear wing in its entirety.  None of the pattern wings fit correctly and even a NOS genuine factory original is no mean feat to fit correctly and successfully.  The problem is that the wing bows in the middle as a correct fitment from new and the pattern replacements are flat and it is very difficult to maintain the original bowed shape.  

Mark

Not true!

There have been traditionally two manufacturers of Herald/ Vitesse rear wings.

One is as you say a flat profile, but our has always had the correct front to back curve.

We maintain a NOS Stanpart original example of every panel we press so that we can check the tooling from time to time for accuracy,

Having fitted more rear wings than most restorers in the past 30 odd years I do concur that it's not the easiest job having to cope with various degrees of 'tub spread', each Herald, or Vitesse being different to the last in that respect.

However because of the price difference other traders (with a few noticeable exceptions) usually opt for the cheaper version reducing turnover on ours, and making it less viable in the future. Not there fault as the retail market is still very much price led.

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