Before and After

[Steve Simmons]

How about sharing some before and after photos? Pick your two best shots!

My project won't look like much against many in the group, but I'll start out the thread anyway...

Before:
(note plastic horns, late model MGB badge, modern 7" headlamps, red brake drums and things out of the picture like painted red dashboard, VW kit car tail lamps, etc)

TC8975 as it was found

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After:

After much work, and now on the road

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[brian hough]

Much better Steve, and you've improved the scenery too!

Sorry my before and after would be my Y type but not quite there yet

Great web site

Best regards
Brian Hough

[stephen stierman]

While TC2911 looked good in red from twenty feet, the tub was mostly bondo and roof flashing, rear wings were glass fiber and the sills were some sort of wood better suited to home contstruction, after a nut and bolt restoration by me, it looks better I think in its original black.

[Owen]

Mine has never been restored, just repaired and driven. Some of the repairs were major like a new tub, but that was just off with the old and on with the new.

[Tom Wilson]

TC0273 - as it was in 2002 when I dug it out of a garage (chassis in a garage, the rest stored underneath a house in a damp crawl space. I'm in the photo - marking off the list of parts I'm making sure I get with the deal. "Rescuing TC0273 from the Dungeons of Sedalia" is the name of the story I wrote about the adventure.

Second photo at completion of restoration in late 2009 - it still looks this good!
Tom Wilson
TC0272, 0273, 0279

[Gene Gillam]

This is TC7872 as found. Engine and transmission had been pulled 7 years prior to fix a water leak, then the car was put up to "work on later". The body was no where near as nice as it looks here...the only parts I were able to save were the cowl and door skins and all needed extensive repair work. I also had to buy a wood kit and build a body and skin it.

All's well that ends well. All work was done at home less machine work on engine and chrome. Wood work, body work, paint, upholstery and top was done in the driveway or the house.

Unfortunately in 2006 TC7872 was totalled and I'm getting to redo her one more time.

[Gene Gillam]

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And this is TC9106 as found. Bought from Bob Seymour of Abingdon Spares to build a vintage racer. I should have spent more time looking it over but I figured he knew what he was selling...ended up shipping the engine and transmission back (engine twice) because it was a Morris 10 block (only capable of being bored out to 1250) and a Morris transmission with a TC rear mount and modified TC remote. At least I didn't have to re-wood the body.

And this is as it is (more or less) right now. Again, all work except engine machining and chroming were done in the driveway (nice neighbors!) or in the house.

[stephen stierman]

Good looking airplane too..........

[Owen]

Wow! Some great work here. I wish I had the talents. I'm OK with a couple of spanners but bodywork skills just aren't there.