Picked up my 1961 Triumph TR3A tub this morning at American Dry Strippers in Milford CT. Hiding under the paint, crud and tar an exceptional body.
If you need blasting done, and what old Z doesn't, these guys are the ones to consider, Gary Jones guided me through the process and coordinated the job with myself and Monroe Restorations in Bridgeport. We needed a dry weather day to move the un-primed body to Bridgeport for the priming.
Great place to get parts stripped, from small pieces to large.
Check out the website: http://www.amerstrip.com/
Some photos from the drop off and the pick up.
The top section is before Gary went to work and the results in the bottom section
You are looking at raw metal.
I'm very pleased, it helps that the car was in excellent shape.
Colin
The older one.

Pretty amazing to see a '61 TR3 with that much metal left!

I remember seeing them in '65-'66 with more rust than body. Have you found an actual bonnet key yet, or are you using a screwdriver like everyone else?

Get in touch with Neon John Williamson. I think he has a garage full of dead Triumphs.

Frank

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1970 240Z

Frank,
I was stunned when I picked it up, I was expecting anything.
The car was originally delivered to France, then shipped to Washington State and finally to CT, so no salt on the roads probably saved it, plus somebody coated most of interior sheet metal with a tar like substance.
I actually have a factory chrome "T Key", no screwdriver for me.
I'll check with Neon John on the dead TR's.

Yeah, they were called "Coach Keys", but we called them Dzus keys. Didn't matter what you called them ~ they always disappeared. It's strange to see they're only worth $11 today; back in the mid-60s nobody could find them at any price, or keep them once they got one. If any UmphUmphUmph owner had one, everybody else was sharing it for their TRs.

http://www.zeni.net/trf/specials06/66.p ... 0&s_ht=800

By the way, here's Dave Russell's unique TR6 fastback coupe from our MEMBER RIDES gallery:

http://www.ctzcc.com/cgi-bin/album.pl?p ... re_084.jpg

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1970 240Z

And bearing in mind that this was a RAVE post, can you give us a ballpark figure for having a car dipped or stripped or cleaned like that? Just wanna rough idea how much it might cost to do a Z.

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1970 240Z

I was thinkin totally something else when i saw the topic. Actually i only saw 2 out of three words. AMERICAN STRIPPERS

So I guess you were disapointed when you saw the before and after picture....

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Mike Tubiak
1978 Datsun 280Z - HLS30-438694

Frank, I first emailed Gary photos of the tub, several views.
From those he gave me an estimate of $650.00.
All the tar, which also saved the body, ended up taking an extra hour of scraping which ran the cost up to $700.00 plus CT sales tax.
This does not include the fenders, doors, bonnet, boot and any other bits, just what you see in the photos.
It can be quite shocking when I car gets stripped, all the sins of the past show up plus body panels can look like Swiss cheese were the tin worms have been.

No offense, but I like the old coupe better. Hard to tell from here,
but it looks like maybe a '37 Olds..............
~Rick~