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While in College, in 1968, I helped two friends make one working MGA out of
two semi-wrecked cars. Soon thereafter, my mom told me that a friend's son
in law had a little red car he wanted to sell. She thought it was a
Volkswagen bug. I went anyway and it turned out to be a TR-3. I was
hooked immediately and, because the windshield needed replacement got the
car for $200 instead of $250. The owner drove it to my house, removed the
plates and left. Then I started really looking at the car and discovered
that the floors were rotted out. I fixed it with some galvanized sheet
steel from a scrap yard and registered the car. It failed inspection due
to front end problems. A rebuilt front end later, it passed and I was on my
way. No two parts of it were quite the same color red but even with its
slightly rich running, though rebuilt carbs, it always started right up. I
had every bulb and gauge working. I even managed to find two gears to get
the odometer working again. I fiberglassed over rusty spots and carefully
removed opaque tape from the plastic windows so that I could clean them and
put on clear tape. Oh, what a joy that car was to drive. It was replaced
by a brand new 1971 GT6+ which was fun and great looking but an oven.
Within a year I replaced that with a new 71 TR-6 and I was much happier. I
had missed the ragtop. The 71 lasted until a fellow pulled out in front of
me in 1979 at which time I found the '73 TR-6 that I still own but can't
afford to register.
Ron L
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