In a message dated 96-11-01 12:46:59 EST, you write:
>I don't know about your spitfires or your GT6, but ANY TR6 with jack stands
>behind front wheels and rear wheels on the ground will flex more than enough
>to keep the doors from working... do this to a really rotten one and you
will
>break it in half. I don't think Jeff has a problem.
This brings to mind a friend who bought a "decent" TR3 some years ago. He
drove it all over the place and one day decided to jack up the front end with
a jack placed under the frame crossmember. Jacking from the front of the
car, he was unaware that the rear half was staying level with the floor. The
frame was so rusted that as he jacked up the front, it was breaking in half
in the middle. Scary that he'd been driving it on the highway in that
condition.
Another time, I was "rescuing" a TR4 from a junk yard and when the fork lift
got it off the ground, the weight of each end snapped the frame in half. I'm
glad it happened when it did, but it makes you wonder how many of our cars
are out there with unsafe frames...
Don "my cars' frames are in better shape than my own" Marshall
'57 TR3 '63 TR3B '63 TR4
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