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Hi,

Here are the first pictures of ACG 5 in it fresh paint, I am sure you will agree she looks stunning. I am sure Roy will be along to update this car's journey to being not only one the earliest car's over here but also one of the best [8D]














Cheers John





LIVE LIFE A QUARTER OF A MILE AT A TIME!

1976 Speke FHC BEAUTY FITTED WITH OVERDRIVE GEARBOX

1979 3.5 FHC CURRENTLY GARDEN ART !

1982 2.0 DHC NOW A 4.6, BUILT NOT BROUGHT !!!!

Cracking job Roy
Tis a credit to you....

www.classiccarrunblackpool.co.uk

1981 DHC 2.0 Litre
1980 DHC pedal car
1982 DHC TR-ailer in the making

Happy Birthday Roy

<b> Christopher </b>

A respectable collection.

Makes me want another white one now.

Euhh ... missing the black rear light panel [:p]

Otherwise looks quite nicely, still shame about the hole in the roof, but that's history [;)]

On a positive, this is another early FHC that gets a proper treatment [8D]

Beans - Give the guy a chance! That's a job for the weekend!

Maxwell


2.0 TR7 FHC \ Current
1.8 Mazda MX5 \ Current

Hi,

Glad you keeping the roof Roy, part of the car and would be fairly certain bearing in mind its history was installed in the factory poss. prototype fitted for future production, you know how these early car's got treated, basically a test mule.

Cheers John




LIVE LIFE A QUARTER OF A MILE AT A TIME!

1976 Speke FHC BEAUTY FITTED WITH OVERDRIVE GEARBOX

1979 3.5 FHC CURRENTLY GARDEN ART !

1982 2.0 DHC NOW A 4.6, BUILT NOT BROUGHT !!!!

Hopefully we will be able to see the car all finished at the NEC Classic Car show in November 2015 on the TRDC stand along with something else special?????

only another year to wait.

Fantastic Roy

JRV459X TR8 DHC EFI Cashmere Gold
UPK688S TR7 FHC Auto Inca Yellow
TCK162P TR7 FHC New White
TFX458R TR7 FHC Pimento Red
NDP505X TR7 DHC Triton Green

Euhh ... missing the black rear light panel

Good spot Theo but there is a reason that the rear panel is not painted black. When the car was discovered & recovered the panel was white - it was assumed that it had been black like all early TR7s but that at some point in the past a previous owner had painted it white. However when the shell was being stripped & prepared for restoration Roy found no trace at all of black paint on the rear panel.

Now it could be that someone had meticulously removed the black paint before painting the panel white, but it could be that it was never painted black in the first place! Unusual I know, but Roy has a very keen eye for bodywork & he could see no tell tale trace at all of black. I also saw the car in it's unrestored state (I helped take it to pieces) so I can confirm this.

I was with Roy at the paintshop yesterday when he first saw the finished car, it is indeed a superb job done by a father & son team in a small unit local to me. From a mechanical & specification point of view Roy has decided to restore the car to "as found" condition, including the sunroof & leaving the rear panel in body colour. The car has a number of interesting features only found on very early examples. It will not be "over restored" like some classic cars that you see, although knowing Roy's attention to detail it will be to a standard that we would all like to aspire to.

Tony

<font size="1">1981 TR7 FHC Cavalry Blue
1980 TR7V8 DHC Jaguar Regency Red - sadly sold!
1977 TR8 FHC EFI Factory development car Inca Yellow</font id="size1">

One thing I am glad about though Tony he is not going the whole hog and putting that hideous red stripe on it.

TR7 Sprint & TR8

Thanks for popping the pictures on for me John.

Tony, as usual with his literacy skills (something I sadly lack) has explained perfectly why I've left the rear panel body colour. I think that because it was a development car that was just going to be shipped over to Canley, they didn't bother to paint it Black. There was most certainly no Black paint on that rear panel,I checked very thoroughly,believe me.

No Red stripe John. It is my intention to fit a set of the genuine Sprint side stripes, (thanks Chris) as per the photo of the car in the David Knowles book.

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I was only looking at it today and thinking to myself that it all seems a little daunting at the moment. I do like the bodywork side of restoring cars, but not so keen on the spanners and oily bits.

Anyway, going to make a start tomorrow.Now where did I put that petrol tank ?[:o)]

TR7 Coupe KDU 366N (development car)
TR7 Sprint ARW 181S (pre-production sprint)
TR7 Drophead KHP 646V (drophead press car)

Hi,

A lot of prototypes and test car's seem to be white, I heard something to do with seeing faults and distortions in the body work easier, a lot of competition cars have under bonnets etc. painted white.

A friend has chassis No. 2 MGF and that's white.

Opposite to yourself Roy, not keen on the bodywork but give me a spanner.....[:)]

Cheers John


LIVE LIFE A QUARTER OF A MILE AT A TIME!

1976 Speke FHC BEAUTY FITTED WITH OVERDRIVE GEARBOX

1979 3.5 FHC CURRENTLY GARDEN ART !

1982 2.0 DHC NOW A 4.6, BUILT NOT BROUGHT !!!!

Little update.

I've been slowly putting ACG 5 together over the last few months and things are coming along nicely.









Cheers

Roy



TR7 Coupe KDU 366N (development car)
TR7 Sprint ARW 181S (pre-production sprint)
TR7 Drophead KHP 646V (drophead press car)

You've got the steering wheel upside down!



Andy
1981 TR7 FHC

Is that the steering lock on the right, or something else?
Paint looks stunning!

Maxwell [:D]


2.0 TR7 FHC \ Current
1.8 Mazda MX5 \ Current