Car Headed to Atlanta

We put the car on Craigslist to see if we could sell it prior to doing any major bodywork, ie let the new owner deal with the paint issues.  We have gotten everything else into very good condition.

Got quite a few inquiries about the car.  We priced it at $5500.  After two weeks on Craigslist we ended up selling the car to Santiago from Atlanta.  Today Santiago and his friend Oliver drove to Boonville and picked up the TR6.  They were very happy with the car.  See their smiles?

They plan to finish up the bodywork.  Ray and I spent almost two hours with them explaining all we knew about the car.  Santiago and Oliver are new to British cars, but not to classics in general.  Also, Santiago is a Mechanical Engineer, so I'm sure he will be able to figure out the weird things that British cars do sometimes.  Good luck, Santiago, and we look forward to pictures of the car when you are done with it!

Head Scratcher - Turn Signals

The turn signals would not cancel, ie they would continue to blink after you had completed a turn.  Little internet research showed there's a bump on the steering column that is supposed to line up with the turn signal switch that flips the switch off after a corner.  The position of the bump should be at 3:00 as viewed from the driver's seat, instead it was at 12:00.  After some thought, turns out this also explains why Ray had such a large difference in exposed threads on the two ends of the steering rack when he installed the new steering rack boots.  I positioned the column with the bump at 3:00, then adjusted steering rack arms until the wheels were going straight in this position.  Used alignment gauge to fine tune to 1/8 inch toe in and then re-positioned steering wheel on column to be straight up when car is going straight.  Now turn signals cancel.  Botched alignment job drove lack of turn signal cancelling - who would have thought!