.... and rust doth corrupt ....
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Off she goes again, to Robsport International at Royston this time.
Just realised that when we do eventually get her back we won’t be able to have proper driving fun until we have run the rebuilt engine in.
Just realised that when we do eventually get her back we won’t be able to have proper driving fun until we have run the rebuilt engine in.
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The old Moo came home yesterday. 
She’s had cosmetic surgery from a dodgy surgeon which a competent surgeon had to try to rectify. We now have a useable classic which is what we wanted. Just as well we didn’t have her restored to show or for speculative reasons.
Thanks to advice from members I have managed to get all the money we paid by Barclaycard to the original restorers back. I am in the process of trying to get some of the money we paid by cheque back also. I have a report from the new restorers to support my case.
When the car was dumped here in pieces in January we were at the point of no return. It has turned into a money pit but we are delighted to have it back on the road. I love it that its heart, the engine, is the original which is pulling better than ever, thanks to all the work that has been carried out on it.
Mr Q moans when I have the roof down on the S but loved the drive home in his car with the wind in his hair yesterday. (It was a miracle that the rain held off.) Wonder if it took him back to when he was thirty and bought Moo, his second TR? I know that he, Saz and I are going to have lots of fun with her.
We’ve already had a ‘get out and get under’ moment. The car jolted down a pothole a few hundred yards from home and we arrived in clouds of steam. Nothing major, a radiator hose hadn’t been tightened enough and we lost the contents.
Moo makes her official debut at the Panshanger Revival vintage fly-in and classic car event next month.
She’s had cosmetic surgery from a dodgy surgeon which a competent surgeon had to try to rectify. We now have a useable classic which is what we wanted. Just as well we didn’t have her restored to show or for speculative reasons.
Thanks to advice from members I have managed to get all the money we paid by Barclaycard to the original restorers back. I am in the process of trying to get some of the money we paid by cheque back also. I have a report from the new restorers to support my case.
When the car was dumped here in pieces in January we were at the point of no return. It has turned into a money pit but we are delighted to have it back on the road. I love it that its heart, the engine, is the original which is pulling better than ever, thanks to all the work that has been carried out on it.
Mr Q moans when I have the roof down on the S but loved the drive home in his car with the wind in his hair yesterday. (It was a miracle that the rain held off.) Wonder if it took him back to when he was thirty and bought Moo, his second TR? I know that he, Saz and I are going to have lots of fun with her.
We’ve already had a ‘get out and get under’ moment. The car jolted down a pothole a few hundred yards from home and we arrived in clouds of steam. Nothing major, a radiator hose hadn’t been tightened enough and we lost the contents.
Moo makes her official debut at the Panshanger Revival vintage fly-in and classic car event next month.
