Let's reflect...

It occurs to me that new readers of this blog will come here and just see a pile of old metal and upside down pictures of a TR7 getting welded, or indeed right way up pictures of an upside down TR7 getting welded.. So, here's a quick overview of how we got here over a 22 year period. Yep, it is taking that long.

 

The car was bought in 1993 for a forthcoming trip by two blokes (Me and Neil) to Greece. I got it welded up so it would pass an MOT.



March 1994. The lad in the foreground is Neil's son. He is 22 now.

 

Quick spray job in Ford Rosso Red, instead of the correct BL Flamenco Red.



 

 

Having been right royally tarted up and filled with Isopon, we headed for Greece.



Leaving Dover. So far, so good.



Naturally it broke down, in Italy.



But eventually we made it.

 

Greece was very good for beer and fresh fish, but the car got battered. We decided to come back to the UK.

On the way home. Bessy arriving in Italy from Corfu. Only about 1,200 miles to go with rumbling big ends...

 

...but we made it home. For some reason I then stripped all the paint off and was left with a bare shell, which I stored in a single garage, then a barn, for years.




Coming home after 11 years in storage, with no paint, interior or engine.



Pulled from the brink.

The car's new purpose built garage.

The other cars enjoyed having a stablemate...

 

 

 

...even if there is a fair bit of work to be done.

So, there you have it. A potted history of this TR7 fixed head and all of the posts recently relate to the current resoration of the car. Now you can head off to various areas of this site and dwell on such things as rust, welding etc with a new insight.