I had a Healey 100, I don't worry overly much about things. But with the
windshield down in "racing position" I do remember contemplating the effects of
a collision with the narrow metal top of the windshield and my face and (or
teeth)
Greg Lemon
---- Andrew Uprichard <auprichard@uprichard.net> wrote:
> I'd also like to nominate my wife for the "grip onto something if the brake
> lights come on in the car 400 yards in front" society. In our "regular" car
> it is the handle above the door: in the TR3 it is usually a bracing posture
> against the cockpit capping. One reason NEVER to get a grab handle.
>
> But I must add: one time a truck passed us and a guy leaned out the window.
> "She's a beauty!" he hollered. "Yes, " I replied, "and we've been married a
> long time!"
>
> I am still milking that one !
>
> Andrew Uprichard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
> terryrs@comcast.net
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 5:45 PM
> To: Triumphs
> Subject: Re: [TR] TR3 question
>
> I do feel need to congratulate the manufacturer's engineering of that
> handle, since it's big enough for my wife to clinch with both hands as she,
> vociferously, I might add, contemplates the proximity of the pavement and
> the girth and ponderous rubber of two-story Peterbilt tires rumbling near
> her head as we whizz past them in the slow lane.
>
> One thing, though, that could have been improved. British Leyland could
> have built the handle pre-engineered with the indents of knuckle grips
> instead of forcing owners' wives to imprint these into the metal manually
> later.
>
> All that said, she's come to enjoy our rides through New Hampshire country
> lanes on sunny summer days, top down and wind flinging through the cockpit.
> Note that she doesn't take naps like she does in our other cars.
>
> Benefit for me? No room for paper parcels from shopping mall forays, hence
> ready excuse to go for ice cream instead. I am, of course, expressive of
> sorrow that we are forced to miss that bonding experience....
>
> Terry Smith, '59 TR3A TS 58667, driving like a dream right now.
> New Hampshire
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Macartney" <john.macartney@ukpips.org.uk>
> To: "Bob Labuz" <yellowtr@adelphia.net>, "Don Hiscock"
> <don.hiscock@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Triumphs" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 5:17:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [TR] TR3 question
>
> In today's safety conscious age, I suppose the grab handle does look a bit
> out of place, bearing in mind safety belts hadn't registered on the
> Standard-Triumph Engineering or Production radars of the fifties and
> sixties. So yup, it's a good place to test the uncrackability of your skull
> or compression resistance of front teeth :) But if anyone gets the
> opportunity of checking out a pre-war MG PA/PB or even a J2, not only did
> the passenger have the opportunity of smashing themselves against the grab
> handle, they had the added pleasure of an ignition key and main lighting
> switch ensuring the 'job' was really done properly!
>
> Jonmac
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bob
> Labuz
> Sent: 14 August 2015 19:26
> To: Don Hiscock <don.hiscock@gmail.com>; Andrew Uprichard
> <auprichard@uprichard.net>
> Cc: Triumphs <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [TR] TR3 question
>
> Don and Andrew,
>
> I always called the "Panic Bar"
>
> Bob
>
> On 08/14/2015 01:32 PM, Don Hiscock wrote:
>
>
> Those are for the passenger grab rail. They attach with sort of an
> Acme-style slotted, countersunk screw.
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Andrew Uprichard
>
>
> My last several cars have been small-mouth or early 3As. I
> am now restoring a 1961 3A which has an all-metal front scuttle. Under the
> scuttle lip and likely to be covered by the dash capping, there are 4 sets
> of two captured speed nuts set in at angles (see pic). Anyone know what
> these are for?
>
>
>
> Andrew Uprichard
>
>
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