The Peerless & Warwick Discussion Forum

Richard Craig wrote:

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Out of interest, if it's not a cheeky question, how much did this one set you back, and how did you come across it?

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It was a bit more than I wanted to pay, but I've been looking for a car for almost a year now.  As it's part-restored it's quite difficult to value anyway, I'll find out how much of a bargain or how much over the odds I paid as I finish the restoration - at this stage I'm not even sure what's missing!

I came across it with a search on google, you never know your luck.

If there are any Peerless owners close to Bedfordshire who'd like to call in and pass on words of wisdom (too late for "don't do it") you're very welcome

Gareth

Richard, I'll see what I can do about higher resolution ones, I think they're as high as that camera goes!

I got the car home and started to go through all the parts, I'm quite pleased that a lot of it is there in some state or other.  I've been going through the photos of the restoration work done before, it looks like the car hasn't moved since the early to mid 1980s....

As found


Interior, are these colours original do you think?


More interior


Body off the old chassis


New chassis


And engine


My first task was to get the battery ground connection sorted out so the full 12V were getting to the starter.  The battery itself had just been discharging over the years so I put a new one on last night.

There's petrol getting into the carbs but I'm fairly sure nothing's getting past the float chamber so that's my next job, but with some carb cleaner sprayed down the carb throats it coughed into life for a second or two so at least there's a spark of some sort.

I've got a Robert Bentley TR3 manual to take the carbs apart, if that doesn't work I'll be back here