1957 TR3 Vintage Racer

Below is the previous history of this car desribed in the previous 
owners own words......


The car was purchased in '72 as a basket case maroon roller 
with a frozen engine. Over the next year my older brother and I 
built this car up from the chassis. It was built for regional racing 
and most of the pieces on the car are from that era. (ie. locked rear 
end, o.d., 3.97:1 rear ratio) The car drove (and broke!) several 
times at Riverside, Willow Springs, and Holtville where the car had 
its best outing with a second place finish over a three race series. 
My brother lost interest and money so the car sat idle under a cover in 
the back yard until '80 when I decided to rebuild the car. My twin, my 
father (read money input) and I took the car back down to zero and one 
night a week built the car back up over 4 years. Since my dad was
getting older I decided to let him drive while he was still able. He 
wasn't fast but he was smooth and had fun dicing it up at the back of the
pack.
  
VARA events

85, 87, 89 @ Palms Springs
84, 85, 86, 87, 88 .89 twice a year each year @ Willow Springs
86, 87, 88  twice a year @ Riverside

In '87 @ Riverside I drove the car in a handicap race for all comers 
- started second, passed the first car at the end of the first lap, 
never saw a car in my mirror and won the race !

In '88 my twin and I drove the car in a two hour enduro at Riverside. 
Started 35th on a Le Mans type start where the driver sat in the car 
and the co-driver ran across the track and tagged your hand to start. 
I hit the starter, popped the clutch, floored the car and hit turn one 
in tenth over all! (gotta love that low end torque) Had every kind of 
big bore monster blow by me in the next two laps, including a spirited 
drive by a GT-40 that passed me twice every lap, but managed to finish 
second in class.

As for the the recent history stuff. In '96 I repainted the car from 
yellow with orange fenders to all blue with the union jack, added the 
wind deflector, added the bracket for the sway bar, replaced the alternator 
with a pulley, added the oil cooler, put in the new shocks, added the 
rear axle locator bar, put spacers under the hood hinges to help evacuate 
the hot air, put in the new seat with belts, bought the new tires and 
put in the fire extinguisher system. I raced the car at Willow Springs 
starting in 36th place, again dead last due to a slipping clutch during 
saturday qualifying, and finished 6th in class and 10th overall with a 
relatively stock head, 86mm pistons, a distributor in bad need of 
replacement, and an overdrive that was shorting out, not bad eh?

I'll take your observations on the construction as a personal 
compliment, but the standard was established by dad.