outstanding!! with my tr6 body about to be pulled off the chassis, you can
guess i'm green (british racing, of course) with ENVY on a sunny day here in
colorado!
Tom Di Iuliio
76 TR6
Denver CO
Brian Johnson wrote:
> Well folks I got up this morning and the sun was shining and it wasn't
> too cold. Unusual for this time of the year in the UK. I looked at my
> Eurobox on the drive, and saw that a large bird had left its calling
> card on my roof.
> Drat ! I'll have to wash the darm thing.......... An hour later and I
> was out opening the garage to get at the hosepipe. I could smell the
> gearbox oil that had leaked out on to the floor during the winter
> (typical). I took a look at the covered TR4 in the garage and had a
> thought. ...... I wonder if the battery is charged ? I flicked the
> switch on the wall to turn on the charger and set out to clean the
> Cavalier. After 15 minutes it was clean enough, so I again had a
> thought - if the battery is charged, then maybe the engine will start
> (all the chat about TRs on the this winter on the list has got me
> impatient). I took off the cover, disconnected the charger, primed the
> carbs, pulled the choke and turned the key, and twenty seconds later I
> heard the sound that us 4 banger TR owners know and love -THUD THUD
> THUD THUD THUD. Let's just turn the car around I decided ( I usually
> leave it 'front in' during the winter but reverse into the garage
> normally). I sat in the drivers seat and reversed on to the drive.
> Well - as I have the car out, I may as well take it 50 yards down the
> street and see if it OK. I reversed on to the street, Maybe I
> should go down to the roundabout, which is a bit further and on the main
> road.?
> I turned left on to the main road and before I knew it I was at the
> roundabout. Sod it - it all seems OK lets go around the estate .. Right
> foot down - Rooaaar - Yahooo ! OK so it was a bit cold, and I had the
> hood down, but I didn't notice, I was enjoying myself. No one else
> particularly noticed, but I didn't care about that ! I couldn't go too
> fast because there were people about. Then I remembered that I had
> left the garage door open and anyone could have walked in and taken a
> bike, a compressor etc etc. so I had to go back. I was only out for
> five minutes and went about 2 miles but - I'd done it - the first drive
> of the year, the earliest yet. If its nice tomorrow I'm going for a
> proper rort around!
>
> Thats all for now !
>
> --
> Cheers
> Brian Johnson
>
> Internet bjohnson@myself.com (work) or b.johnson@lycosmail.com(home)
>
> 1963 TR4 AFP503A / IZS 733(USA) - CT27216-L (now not L but O ) ex USA
>
> 1954 TR2 46 BHX TS554-O UK Car in pieces
> 1989 Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0 GLI - Eurobox but it goes !
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