Wes' Tr6 Bits

owned 4 of them as hobbyist wannabe. One stolen.one junker from yard to salvage parts.. then the good one, blue 1600... still needed everything,
but taught me a ton regards engine/gearbox/brakes etc etc. to my regret
i sold the blue one , needing garage space, ang by then two daily drivers for our careers and having long acquired a tr6 and simply needing space. the blue was I am told then more carefully restored, painted black, and made to be a show car, appreciative new owners. the blue endured years of thrashing happily... Fogtown to Tahoe to Monterey to Los Angeles to Seattle, a few times...into the mountains onto logging roads at 6000 feet... once that looked like a stone road but in fact a creek... ehere i rightly dented lower crosmember on a boulder...
yet made it down mountain with a small pouch nuggets in a leather and cloth pouch, but could not find the body... possibly long ago scattered by now extinct wolves, and sticking from snow a cylinder, a surveyor scale...
the blue had front disc brakes, the SU electric pump would clatter happily
when first turning key...
i did not resoect at the time the stress i was putting on machine, but have to say over the 20 years driven blue never left me stranded on road...
just once in NE Calif 395 after descending miles of grade, but without using brakes i stopped, smelling evil... The right front brake disc was red hot... I sat for an hour to wait it cool down...
I limped to a sympathetic Standard station, went thru thir collection nuts and bolts. somehow tied off that section brake line and carefully drove back to Fogtown, to begin worklife... Sold blue in 1990... but buyer
visiting salivated over the TR6... saying “worth some bucks”...
Today I enjoy the TR and can budget to fix the non essentials...and it runs like a top...
but the MGA was sleeker, more like a cat, balanced... in retrospect I would choose blue over the rest ... but apparently went to a good home...
i salute anyone preserving an MGA ... it is no small matter these days to keep one running... (in my day, a typical MGA purchase was a project car...here in usa most of them led a poor dog life and were thrashed quickly...)...