Will you are much further along than I am. I still have a bare chassis sitting
on
the flor of my garage. My project was interupted by the need to put new windows
in
my house. The windows are almost done and the boat is in the water. So the car
and
I will get re-aquainted soon. No question on my color ( as red as it gets.)
Good luck
PS I also had trouble with the old site?
William Zehring wrote:
> At 09:00 PM 6/15/98 EDT, you wrote:
> >Stephen, I haven't been in on the group for very long but from what I've seen
> >there is not a tremendous amount of discussion on any particular model of
> TVR.
> >Seems more like a source for answers if someone has a specific question or
> >problem with whatever they happen to be working on. Sure can be nice to get
> >some different answers and opinions quickly when they're needed. Being new to
> >this "on line "stuff, I don't know of any other "mailing lists" dedicated to
> >TVRs. I was kind of hoping this one would get more activity but I suppose
> >everyone is spending their time wrenching on their cars.
> >Dave
> >
> >
>
> This list hasn't been around too terribly long, and it is a pretty quiet
> one at that. There is another TVR list, based in England. It had been my
> impression that most participants in that list are late model owners, not
> in the US. That wasn't going to be much help to me, with my restoration of
> a '71 2500. I guessed that other US TVR owners might feel the same way.
> So, I helped to get this list going for the owners of earlier cars and for
> US owners, who hadn't penetrated much into the exisiting list (the address
> of this other list used to be www.domino.com but I just tried to get into
> that page and it indicated there was a problem. An alternative page thats
> quite good is:http://cognac.lu.se/tvr/TVR.html.)
>
> Anyway, I hope that the autox.team.net list really does gain momentum.
> I've had good luck getting advice and parts sources from it.
>
> In terms of an update on my project...
> We hit a snag trying to locate a hearald front upright (long gruesome
> story, pretty uninteresting) but its in hand now and the front end
> reassembly will be getting finished in the next couple of weekends. I'd
> hoped to have the car ready for the vintage races at Mid ohio (this is not
> a race car, I just had set that as a goal to present it to my pals there),
> but that won't happen. I repainted the wheels and now have dunlops on them
> (165s). The electrical work in the engine bay is about done, and all
> that's really left is a final re-assembly of the interior and then putting
> the induction back on the engine (and trying to start the dang thing). I
> still have pipe dreams that this car will be roaring about my neck of the
> woods sometime in July. Then the world will get a chance to decide if this
> car is green or if its blue. I personally think its a greenish-blue ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Will Zehring
> 1971 2500 (1962T)
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