It's
exactly five years ago today that my latest TR7 joined my small collection. I
actually bought the car for its, at first glance rather tatty looking, Wolfrace
Turbo wheels:
But they
were completely undamaged, with absolutely no curbing damage. And on the cars
arrival in the shed the wheels were quickly removed and sent of to be refurbished.
Shod with new rubber and with newly designed 3D printed wheel centres, they
were fitted to my 1980 DHC. Why? Because for as long as I love TR7's I have always
wanted a TR7 DHC with a set of these wheels fitted:
With
the wheels removed from the car, it dawned on me that I was in possession of a pretty early
and fairly original Dutch car, which was first registered here on the 6th
of October 1976. So it was quickly decided it had to be restored. Though with a
few slightly non original twists. And the rest is history as the saying goes!
But still very much a work in progress, a few pictures of the body work (the full restoration
story so far can be found here) ...
As bought
in Hoek van Holland (17-10-2013)
Disassembling
complete (12-02-2014)
Welding
complete and waiting for final "light" shot blasting and a coat of primer
(10-07-2014)
Almost
ready for painting (08-11-2014)
Underside
and inside painted (05-02-2015)
Patiently
waiting for its turn in the spray cabin (05-09-2015)
Painted at
last! (14-09-2015)
Slowly
taking shape (30-05-2017)
Original plan was to have the car restored and back on
the road in 2016. As this would be the year that she'd became tax exempt. But life and
other games got in the way from time to time ...
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