Triumph TR3 - The Chassis Has Left the Building!!!

A pivotal "project" day yesterday as I separated the body from the chassis and moved the chassis to the driveway. I left the body in the garage. This wasn't my original intent but when I thought about it I was not too enthusiastic about exposing all my hard work to the elements so I changed my plan... The chassis is pretty weatherproof. In order to facilitate working on the car I built a stand for the body (2' high) out of 2X6 which should help with respect to prepping and painting underneath the body and the final fitting of the fenders.. a down side is it further compromises my small work area space wise...

Re removing the body: I did all the "grunt" work myself which proved to be an interesting physical challenge as the TR3 body is fairly heavy. At one point (when my 59 year old body started to feel the strain) I considered soliciting the help of a couple of my neighbors (my son has a bad cold and couldn't help out) but I didn't want to bother them on Easter Sunday so I soldiered on. After I was finished I actually sat on my front step and admired the bare chassis contemplating what a great basis it would be for a 1930's rat rod-very low to the ground...front disk brakes etc etc....hmmmm...I had to shake my head more than once to clear out any misconceptions (delusional thoughts) I might have around pursuing such an outlandish idea...

I also spent a few minutes looking over the MOSS Motor's website checking out rack and pinion conversions, turn indicator and horn conversions, and the potential to switch the fan belt to a narrower version. Lots of ways to spend money for sure...I also checked out a couple of bookmarked sites around alternator conversions. Many decisions to be made in the next while..

The MOSS sale on interiors and roofs ends on June 2nd so I am going to hold off on my order until later.

All in all a good day....hopefully more of the same will follow today...