presentation tvr grantura 1800s finaly yes!!

[MORTIMER84]

At the end i bought the car!
yesterday i take it to home and now i am starting to dismount it.

someone said me to contact with Richard Sails, i do it and this person said me this information

It is an 1800S Mk 3, Left Hand Drive, built in Feb 1966, original colour sand. (thanks him)


now i have a lot of cuestions.
the first one if someone have schematics, manuals, and things like that.

the second one are this, hehe

the front lights are the same of a mini classic
the external manacle of the doors ¿? i read that you can use of a mini too
the engine?? have comom pieces of a mg engine?, i am going to rebuild it and to find gaskets, the rings for the piston etc..
the intermittients i don`t find nothing, the same with the brushes, and the bumpers
the back window i only find a person that sold it
the brake sistem? is from som car¿?
the suspension sistem.... i read that the first ones was copied for a vw and have common parts
the edge of the windows, if someone has some ideas, i dont have that parts

this are my first cuestions, hehe.
now the photos of the machine...

[MORTIMER84]

Hi. Many thanks. I'm on holidays an dont see the computer so much. I start the dismount and the restoration. I work more in holidays than at work. Hehe

I put some photos in a flew days

Regards

[MORTIMER84]

Its the number 18 013.
Someone has the documentation. To copy the characteristics. I have to do a chsracteristics paper here in spain. Dimensions as and things like that. If someone has it take me out a lot of work.

Thanks

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I gave the chassis number and the tvr classic club said me the information. Mk3 1800s. I have a mowog 1800 engine with numbers 12h1365 12h1442 12h1777.
The engine is running yet!!! I work on in a flew days and the sound is great.
I cut the fiberglass to take out the structure. I am going to change two pipes and start mounting it. The change I don't known . Is a mowog too but I don't now the number of gears. It drawing put 4 gears and reverse.

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The promised photos

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we continue.
the chasis is ready. today painted with epoxy and ready to came back inside the car.
the first i have to change some tubes (pipes) that were damage
i put it in a bank(bench) of work because it have a deviation in the front for an old colision. i little one but i whant to probe the bank, when all was in his position sandblasting and now paintintg.

here some photos

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how is suported the chassis to the body in other models. i am going to do something like this in mines, to separate the body of the chassis but were is screw the body to de chassis, only in the place of the seats??



here my stage

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Time ago since my last post in the presentation. Now the restauration it's getting finish ( but maybe next year I will dismount again to paint.
I have things to do but I what to get the car running!!

I have a question, inside door handles what car mounts it?





Regards

[MORTIMER84]

I m member of some, but grantura only I dint find it