My first TR7

[gregtheo]

Evening everyone, the other day I won a TR7 on ebay for the pricely sum of £265! Went to pick it up last friday and was very impressed by how well it runs even though its been sat for 2 years!
Its an Inca Yellow 1978 FHC with a Webasto sunroof. Its done 86,000 miles and runs beautifully.
The bodywork looks worse than it is really, it only needs 2 or 3 areas of welding, the worst being under the bottom of the windscreen. Other than those couple of patches its just scabby.
This is my first restoration but my dad owns 2 other TR7's so he is pointing me in the right direction with some of the bits I'm unsure on.

Here's a couple of photos of it when I got it home.


And a shot of it with my dads TR7 V8

Greg

[Beans]

Welcome to wedge owner ship and I hope you'll enjoy your 7 for many years to come [;)]

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[gregtheo]

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Welcome to wedge owner ship and I hope you'll enjoy your 7 for many years to come [;)]

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Thanks mate, dad seems to have given me the TR bug!

Has anyone got any idea of where I can get hold of a new sunroof? The vinyl is torn and will need replacing but it has metal runners and they are in perfect condition so don't need then!

[Maxwell]

Greg - A perfect candidate for the TRDC Wedge Wall!

Maxwell [:D]


2.0 TR7 FHC \ Current
1.8 Mazda MX5 \ Current

[FI Spyder]

Welcome to the "club". It seems most Englishmen become quite proficient with a welder due to rainy weather and lack of garages for older cars.[8D]



- - -TR7 Spider - - - 1978 Spitfire- - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

[gregtheo]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Maxwell</i>

Greg - A perfect candidate for the TRDC Wedge Wall!

Maxwell [:D]

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What is this Wedge Wall you speak of?

Greg

[REPLIC8]

Rick at S and S had a S/H sunroof a few months ago, give him a call.



Andy
1981 TR7 FHC

[Maxwell]

Greg / Check out Events/Members Cool Wall. No need to be in the TR-Drivers Club to be on it. All a part of the TR7s 40th Anniversary. Big event coming up in September - a Wedge-gathering at Coventry with Harris Mann and a host of others!
By the way, the Cool Wall is now officially The Wedge Wall - all TR7s are Cool!

Maxwell [8D]


2.0 TR7 FHC \ Current
1.8 Mazda MX5 \ Current

[whitenviro]

A TR7 and a Westfalia camper! A man after my own tastes. They look good together!


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1980 Pageant Blue DHC with removable hardtop.

[Roy Hankins]

Not many with a T prefix, you have done very well.[:)] I suspect this to be a very late Speke car, not a Canley car as the badging suggests.

Do the first three digits of the vin number begin with ACG or TCG ?

A warm welcome to the forum Greg, keep us all up to date with the restoration.

TR7 Coupe KDU 366N
TR7 Sprint ARW 181S

[birminghamtr7]

I like it, good luck, and I look forward to seeing it.

if you factor in the earth's rotation, we are all speeding

[twoboys]

Great find gregtheo. I love the fact that it looks just right for its year. I'm sure you already have done this but to check just how origional everything is I find this resource excellent....

http://www.tr7.co.uk/tr7-tr78-vins-explained.html



Cheese? Really? How on earth does it look like a block of cheese?

[john 215]

Hi,

Great looking car [8D] as my learned friend Roy says rare car's T reg well done you.

Hope to see you out and about in it, looks lke you have inherited your dads good taste.

Cheers John


LIVE LIFE A QUARTER OF A MILE AT A TIME!

1976 Speke FHC Beauty Now with an overdrive conversion

1979 3.5 FHC(STATUS PENDING!!)

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

[G v8]

Nice car and great color

[UKPhilTR7]

It is so nice to see a car that is not going to be broken up for bit and that you are going to do it up. Good luck, I hope it goes well and you are on the road soon.

With the sunroof I had the same issue with mine, it needed replacing. I found a place in London called something like coach builders solutions or something with the word coach builders in it. They took my old frame and put new material on it for a reasonable price. I will try and dig out the details and get them to you.