It has been sugested thati should do a restoration thread by someone who will be named .yes Alan 
.As someone who doesnt talk about what hes doing it will not be easy and i feel i should have started this before i totaly stripped the car out.Part 1 History.
I decided what i wanted when i left school as my dad had a white 1500TC but didnt get round to buying one untill i could afford one.I started saving up when i started work in 1973.But it wasnt untill 1979 that i went and orderd my pangent blue 1500HL. I had to wait for the colour and trim combination i wanted to come from leyland
My dad traded in his TC at another garage for a demo model a 1500HL in horrible Sandelglow.I wasnt to happy as he hadnt told me what he was doing and the fact he got he new one before me.My aunty also when into my dealer and bought a 1300 from my garage and it arrived again before mine. So triumphs are in the blood.DBC289T cost me around £3995 .I do have all the origanal reciepts and bills/MOTs from new up to about 1992 when she came off the road but it in a box in the roof.
I loved her and she took me to my fav place wells next the sea ,Norfolk every week end .we and my new Golden retriever pup sheba went to Cornwall ,Devon, wales.The lakes yorkshire.South coast I loved traveling in those care free days .I didnt get to scotland though in Dolly
(But i did in the montego.)The joy of driveing went on for many years untill she reached about 58000miles when she developed the dreaded big end trouble.Now in those days i knew nothing about cars only where to put the fuel in ,It and my dad took the cars to the garage for that .
Weather it was a coincidence are not my da had big end trouble at around 55000mile .Any way i had the engine rebuilt and all seamed ok when ataround 59000 big end rattle so back to the garage not happy.he wouldnt accept hed done something wrong in the rebuild so i got the RAC to do a report on th eengine and it was found that there was some oil contamination and debia in the sump.He had to do the job again foc.After that all was ok
I had one accident in her that needed a new front bummper and the ns wing pulling out and thats all .But later on she needed chassis legs welding and then the drivers foot well then the divers sill.and then that i was persuaded to get a monego est that a friend had sean in Nowich.That was in 1988 .I kept dolly still on the road untill 1992 thinking it wouldnt be long before i got her back to how she was when i bought her.How wrong was i and how quickly time goes by If i hadnt had bought that Bl88dy Montego the repairs would have be done then and she wouldnt have got to the point now when she needs a total rebuild.
Part 2 ASAP
shorts are from the early 80s. 
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