I'd highly recommend you purchase Roger Williams new book on restoring the
TR5/250 and TR6. He goes into great detail with many photos concerning many
aspects of restoration, including body and frame rust repair.
I believe all the big 3 carry this book. I purchased mine from TRF.
Terry Geiger
Florence, Alabama USA
1974 TR6 Mimosa Yellow
Quoting mbullard <mbullard@hawaii.rr.com>:
> 'O wise and great ones,
>
> For those of you who haven't followed the acquisition thread, I've
> just
> purchased a '74 TR6 (Pimento/Chestnut) on Ebay in Indianoplis and taken
> it
> to Honolulu. I am the second owner and the car has about 81k miles on
> it.
>
> The interior is completly shot, engine currently not running (timing
> issue
> I'm currently working on)and a significant amount of rust (all four
> fenders
> has some amount of rust, both rocker panels and how deep I haven't
> determined yet and a little coming through on the back deck.)
>
> My original plan was to get it home and immediately take care of the
> rust
> issues as the salt air here will just make matter worse.
>
> My question is what is the best order to tackle the work ahead. I was
> planning on doing body work, engine work and then interior.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Aloha,
>
> Mark Bullard
> '74 TR6
> CF24345U
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