Vern Brannon drove his 2000 saloon daily driver to the Gathering. Vern really does drive this car daily. I believe it came from Oregon as it has a PTOA sticker on the back window.
I hope at some point to get a steering wheel like this one for the Estate.
There's an interesting story behind the tear in the hood sheetmetal (visible just to the side of the "hood scoop"). Apparently Vern was driving the car one day when the original fan blade lost a blade...which left, rather rapidly, while creating the tear along the way. Vern has since replaced the fan...and this led me to buy a TR250 fan for Chrissy.
As far as progress on OUR car, I've done some more blasting and painting, but there's a lot more to do. I'm still struggling with the eventual brake specifications. At this point, I'm leaning towards a Stag M/C, Stag front brakes, and possibly putting a proportioning valve into the system to keep the rears from locking up rather than replacing the rear brakes with Stag brakes. Anyone got any experience with proportioning valves? They seem pretty affordable on eBay. I've also acquired some more parts off the list that never seems to end...but will eventually.
One more thing...it's lonely out here. If you read this, please post a comment so that I know you did...:-) Thanks!
Jamie
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No need for a proportioning valve.. I have 4 pot racing calipers up front and standard rear... no lock up even in extreme conditions.. ie braking very hard from 120mph...
Thanks, Andy! That helps!
Nice blog Monsieur. I'm diggin' Vern's green 2000. Your pal, Joe
Hi,
You can always go with an adjustable proportioning valve and dial it in if necessary. I assume Andy has a sedan and that the estate (with a little extra rear weight) would have even less tendency to lock up rear wheels. Nonetheless, an adjustable valve could be dialed in to address any lockups that do occur.
Doug
The Gathering was the same day as my club's show at Pensacola Beach. I wanted to bring both my 2000 and my Spitfire but the day before I noticed 1 carb leaking badly so I only brought my Spitfire. See my website at www.spitfire.info.
Hi again, since my name did not appear in the previous post, even though I typed it in the name box, I'll post again.
I remembered a fan blade incident at our 2003 show. A guy pulled up in an Austin Healey with weird part on the hood. As I went to take his picture (which I do for every car as they enter) he said it was a new hood ornament. What had happened was the same thing as Vern's car. The fan blade broke off while he was driving down to our show and embedded itself into the hood and protruded up through it. So he stopped at a friend's house nearby and they replaced the water pump and fan blade, then continued the rest of the drive leaving the broke fan blade in the hood. He was the winner of our "Hard Luck" award that year.
Pictures of the car as he pulled in, and close-ups of the protruding blade as the "Hard Luck" winner are on this page:
http://www.pbca1.com/show2003/show2003list.htm
Cheers,
Mike Japp
'66 Triumph 2000 Mk1 automatic
'77 Triumph Spitfire (owned 25 years)
http://www.spitfire.info
Mike, thanks for directing me to your site...I'm a spitfire lover too; see http://home.earthlink.net/~tr6driver/Spitfire ...
Can't wait to start working on the 2000 again...
Jamie
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