Pat's Tuscan V6 restoration thread

[tus6]

Any further progress Pat?

What are the general thoughts of the ownership of TVR returning to a UK resident who lives in Surrey?

[Pat H]

tus6 said:

Any further progress Pat?

Hello, Chris.

Still quietly waiting for Keith to work his magic with the chassis.

Then, hopefully, I can make some positive progress.

[thegamekeeper]

Pat, great to see you back on board with resto, thought you,d given up. You owe it to your dad not to. Come on, there is more to life than work. Hope all is well, sTeVeR

[Pat H]

thegamekeeper said:

thought you,d given up.

Cheeky sod...

[uk66fastback]

Have you been doing anything else on it Pat - restoring a few parts at weekends etc - I'm not sure I could keep my hands of it if it were in my garage ...

Getting it back on wheels with a new chassis will be a MAJOR start. Don't know anything about the early cars so not sure what is restorable and what is irreplaceable. Was there a problem with the window frames or something I seem to remember .... ?

[Pat H]

uk66fastback said:

Have you been doing anything else on it Pat - restoring a few parts at weekends etc - I'm not sure I could keep my hands of it if it were in my garage ...

Getting it back on wheels with a new chassis will be a MAJOR start. Don't know anything about the early cars so not sure what is restorable and what is irreplaceable. Was there a problem with the window frames or something I seem to remember .... ?

I've only been doing a few small jobs.

My experience of previous rebuilds suggests that it is sensible to keep as much of the car in large lumps as possible, so that it doesn't just disappear into a million tiny bits.

So each front corner has been taken off complete. Each rear shaft, upright and hub remains a complete assembly, as does the engine and box.

There are a bunch of parts that are made of unobtainium. The n/s window frame is a good example, and there are plenty of others, from door hinges to minor instruments and switches.

But I know a chap who has most of these bits, so I am presently saving up to take him out for a drink...

Really looking forward to getting the chassis, then it will very slowly start going together instead of coming apart.

[Astacus]

Pat, re switches: if they are the sausage shaped ones with the decals on the end, then I spent a long time looking for these and I can give you some pointers if you need them

Matt

[Pat H]

Thanks Matt.

Mine are actually the later square rocker type switches, which don't look to be quite as much of a challenge.

P

[Astacus]

Pat H said:

Thanks Matt.

Mine are actually the later square rocker type switches, which don't look to be quite as much of a challenge.

P

Good!

[Pat H]

I was poking about with the remains of my dash yesterday.

What do you reckon this switch is for?

I'm talking about the horizontal one at the bottom, with the associated warning lamp.

All I know for sure is that it left the factory that way.

Looks like an afterthought for an auxilliary or extra.

The only significant option that the car had was overdrive, and I can't find evidence of an overdrive switch anywhere else on the dash. Might it be for the O/D?

Edited by Pat H on Tuesday 11th July 14:44

[Adrian@]

Manual reverse light...what colour wires does it have?
Adrian@

[Pat H]

No wires, sadly.

Much of the wiring was stripped out (along with most of the dash) when I found the car.

Manual reversing light is a good call. The car has a combined number plate lamp with reversing lamp.

Edited by Pat H on Tuesday 11th July 14:46

[pete.reeve]

Mine is for heated rear screen.
Pete

[Adrian@]

Agreed ...heated rear screen, green/red to the lamp, as Green /brown is reverse.
Adrian@

Edited by Adrian@ on Sunday 30th June 14:46

[Pat H]

But the car had a perspex screen. Perhaps a replacement for the original?

Wonder where the o/d switch was then?

[heightswitch]

To my mind..and again others know more than me but Vixens and derivatives never had heated rear screens unless an after market fitment.
Not sure about Tuscans, I always thought that M series cars were first to have heated rear screens.
N.

[Adrian@]

HRWE, If you had a perspex screen that rubbishes that thought...O/D was there as such, on a toggle switch pointing up at you, in a funny way, a small switch might of been better as the toggle sort of is/was obtrusive.
Adrian@

[Pat H]

heightswitch said:

To my mind..and again others know more than me but Vixens and derivatives never had heated rear screens unless an after market fitment.
Not sure about Tuscans, I always thought that M series cars were first to have heated rear screens.
N.

The price list Dad used quotes a glass rear screen as an option, but there's no mention of a heated screen.

Mind you, it also lists 3 point belts as an option for the Vixen (standard for Tuscan), despite the fact that belts were a mandatory fitment from (I think) 1967 for all cars.

I wonder if it really was the o/d switch.

[heightswitch]

Pat H said:

The price list Dad used quotes a glass rear screen as an option, but there's no mention of a heated screen.

Mind you, it also lists 3 point belts as an option for the Vixen (standard for Tuscan), despite the fact that belts were a mandatory fitment from (I think) 1967 for all cars.

I wonder if it really was the o/d switch.

Glass screens were available in clear ans sundym bronze tint I think. but never heated. In those days you stuck on a horrid silver grid element and wired in yourself.

M screens are relatively common.

Original fit for your dads would have been a plain sundym tinted screen which Mr Reid will have in stock..They are like rocking horse poo to find.
N.

[GTRene]

it looks like the plate is mounted backwards...
see the lettering with he other switches...



and it could be for reverse (light) as the label says it is and was mentioned