1957 A superb, highly original, 3 owner UK car. SOLD

1957 TRIUMPH TR3
As the owner of LJA999 I am doubtless biased but I believe the car to be very special indeed. It is not concours as it is regularly, if sparingly, driven on sunny days. However I would describe its condition as ‘superb’ and as a mix of condition and originality I believe it to be one of the best in the world.

The car was fortunate with its original owner Norman Redford who bought the car new from the Hollingdrake Automobile Co Ltd in Manchester on 7th August 1957 for £1093. 8s. 11d. The car was blocked up and not used from 1963 to 1972. It was then used by Norman again and then blocked up again and never used from 1976 to 1984 Thus it was off road for 17 years in Norman's ownership of 27 years and therefore missed the period when many TR’s were thrashed and discarded. The vast majority of those which survived needed ‘back from the dead’ restorations.

The second owner was Ken Rawson. Ken bought the car in 1984 when it had done 33040 miles. Ken did some tidying and drove the car until 1991 when he took the car entirely to pieces down to the bare chassis but found very little needed restoring save a bit of rust on one sill. He cleaned everything, repainted the chassis, did a little re-chroming, replaced various wear and tear items and reassembled the car. He had the car professionally resprayed, fitted a new wiring loom, a kenlow fan and chrome wire wheels (replacing the original steel rimmed ones which I have stored). Prior to this ‘restoration’ the car was heavily featured in Tim Piggott’s classic TR book ‘Original Triumph TR’s’. At one point Tim describes the car as ‘superbly original’. A colour plate of LJA999 graces the rear cover of the book.
Ken gave me a long list of awards the car had won in his ownership. Ken kept the cups, glass etc for his memories but I have a photograph of LJA999 with many of them.

I bought the car from Ken in 2007 by when it had covered approx 60, 000 miles. I have added some 10, 000 miles. I have had the car meticulously maintained by Malcolm Collinson a well known local classic car specialist. It has overdrive on 2nd, 3rd and top. It has done a genuine 70, 000 miles from new. It retains its original and splendid leather faced seats (full leather seats were never an available as a contemporary option).
I have made three changes to the car. I had an anti roll bar fitted which does wonders for the handling (as it did for my first TR in 1963). I changed the chrome wire wheels for painted wire wheels which I think look much nicer as well as being much easier to clean and I had new carpets fitted by a local specialist. These should match the colour of the car’s completely original interior. This is the rare vermillion colour which is delightful but I could not source the colour in carpet material. I have therefore installed a complete contrast – green – which I think shows off the interior beautifully.

LJA999 is a wonderfully original and utterly genuine 3 owner UK car in superb condition. It comes with its own and very rare original key fob, its original green log book, its original instruction book, owners manual, owners association booklet, accessories list and TR3 colour brochure. I have all receipts, MOT’s and a photographic record of Ken’s light and sympathetic restoration.

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