TS 22312, an early widemouth TR3, or TR3A as some call it, has door handles
on doors with no raised boss. It also has wedge-style sidecurtains and
budget locks, and no handle, on the boot.
Widemouth TR3 TS 56882 has the raised boss on the doors around the handles.
Could it be that they put handles on the old style doors first, then started
making doors with raised bosses when they used up the old doors?
John Herrera
>Dave, my recollection is that late TR3 doors may have had the handles, as
>the factory prepped for the TR3A switch, and I also recall mention of some
>sort of "GT" kit for the TR3 that included exterior handles.
>
>My 57 TR3 (TS15098L) has wooden-framed doors with no holes. I am not
>certain they are original - anything could have happened over the years -
>but they fit quite nicely so I assume they are not from a much later car.
>
>What number is your TR3? Late cars, near TS22xxx, are probably fairly
>likely to have had some 3A parts on them.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Dan
>
>
>
>At 8:02 AM -0400 9/19/05, Dave1massey@cs.com wrote:
>>Folks, what is the difference between TR3 doors and TR3A doors.
>>
>>The reason I am asking is because I am starting a tear down of my 57 TR3
>>and
>>I found that I have TR3A doors with the hole for the outside handle
>>bondo'd
>>over. I knew I had the wrong latches (or at lease was missing the
>>protruding
>>bits for the release cable attachment) but I come to find out that they
>>are the
>>wrong latches altogether. And now I find they are the wrong doors.
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>Dave Massey
>>57 TR3
>>71 TR6
>>80 TR8
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