3 gallons of body COLOR is excessive to me also even if you are painting inside and out piece by piece as you should. I would not use lacquer (cellulose) but either catalyzed acrylic enamel or urethane and prepare to wet sand and buff the finished panels, I suspect in reality a gallon would be adequ...

My comments and photos above pretty well described my experience with Moss timbers. Yes, some fitting is required but ultimately, they worked just fine. My TC turned out very nicely, the doors latched, the top and bonnet fit etc. I did all the work myself including paint and sold it on BAT for prett...

Ray, I bought a set from Moss many years ago and they were OK. I don't believe the carpets in a TC were edge bound and the set from Moss was not either. These are just pretty plain carpets and certainly not deluxe in any way. Years and years ago I had an MGA that had the original factory carpets and...

Mark, I'm not sure what to tell you regarding the situation you have. My TC improved greatly by increasing the toe with better straight-line stability and also turn in. I did not spend enough time driving a TC equipped with a VW box to notice a lot of change other than decreased on center lost motio...

I don't have the lengths, but the conduit can be installed after the fact. As I recall a couple of pieces must be taken apart, the stuff is like a spiral bound notebook and hooks together as it is wound around the loom. It is a bit tricky but can be done as that is how I put it on my loom. Some need...

Mark, I have to tell you that my TC prior to increasing the toe to 1/2" did NOT go straight as an arrow. Now I didn't expect it be like my Miata but hoped it to be at least as drivable as my Morgan. That changed when I increased the toe and it was quite Miata like after that. Not at all surprised th...

Mark, I have been suggesting increasing the toe to 1/2" for years after I read it in the manual and tried it myself. A couple people have done it, Norman Verona (Frenchblatter for one) and had good results also, yet the same complaints about poor TC directional stability are still mentioned regularl...

Mark, the tire wear was not excessive, now I did tend to rotate my tires with some regularity. When you are driving a couple thousand miles a year, well it isn't a particular problem. I restored my TC and the steering box was not worn with a lot of free play, the TC just sort of had a mind of its ow...

Before you go to all the trouble of changing this and that, set the toe in to 1/2" as the prewar cars were set. I did so years ago and it was transformational.

Many years ago, I built a new tub for TC2911 now gone to a new home and missed. I am not really a wood worker and have very little skill in that direction and my major woodworking tool is a jig saw if that tells you anything. I did make a few of the straight pieces for the side curtain compartment a...

I paint my timbers with a nice thick coat of oil-based paint to add some attempt at preserving them from rot. Prior to this some wood preservative and urethane. And of course, you are correct they are covered either with sheet metal or trim and really aren't visible for the most part. When I spray t...

Well spoken Robert and you made the correct decision. I owned my TC for 20 years, restored it from the ground up, and drove it almost twenty thousand miles. It was bog standard for the most part, no five speed, no higher geared rear end, no VW steering box, standard brakes etc. etc. and set up prope...

Because the pan gaskets and the front seal are usually not the problem, it is the rear slinger that causes the major leak that this thing was designed to remedy as a stop gap band aid measure.

I had mine chrome plated, the cost of silvering was quite high, and it really doesn't last all that well. I ran them with the standard bulbs, and they were adequate, now I can't compare performance to what a silvered reflector was because my car came with sealed beams. The reality is that my nightti...

I would agree with Mark, TC2911 had some remnants of dull thin black paint in various places on some of the original timbers particularly around the firewall which had never been removed. I notice on your car there is some black paint showing around the edges of the red which looks the same as what ...

Yes, turn the bolts around................

TC2911 never overheated and it was only heat soak on fairly warm days, the car was black by the way which didn't help matters I am sure. Louvering the bonnet was something that I was definitely not going to do. Our petrol was 10% ethanol and eventually I learned to live with it and just pulled the c...

I had the same problem with TC2911. As I used this car regularly and filled the tank several times a month the problem was not old petrol. It could have been caused by ethanol as that is all we have here for the most part. I had spacers under the carbs, a coated exhaust manifold and made up a little...

Ray, believe me TC2911 was a running shed when I bought it, fiberglass rear wings, body tub made of bondo and roof flashing, some of the timbers were grafted to pine, etc etc.

Ray, when I restored TC2911 I used "TCs Forever" as my guide as best I could. I suspect it is as accurate as anything could have been at the time and probably still is. Philosophically I didn't want to impart what I thought or what anyone else interpreted as looking better than the photos and instru...