TR-6 Restoration (#4)

"To the untrained eye, this looks like a basket case.  But to the trained eye, it's much worse."
                                                                                                      --Cuz (with a  ;-)  )

Not mentioned below: the engine air-filter box bought on eBay arrived with surface rust but in otherwise good and unmolested shape.  It's a 1971 part but they are hard to find, so it will have to do for a 1972 car.  It needs only sandblasting and paint: the same factory spec semi-gloss silver as the valve/rocker cover.

The good news is that the rear half of the center tunnel is in good shape.  The bad news is that the interior sides of the
floor panels need media blasting, if they can be saved.  Too many cycles of  rainwater being trapped under the carpet?
Original-spec n.o.s. jute-backed carpet arrived from the U.K., "and it smells like real jute."  Needed: sun visors.

Removing the old top from the car.  Cuz took it to his own workbench where he removed about 25 pop-rivets, the glue
holding it to the frame-front that mates to the windshield header, and the dry-rotted seals "being held in by hundreds
of ounces of 3M weatherstrip adhesive."  Hand-sanded and now ready for sand-blasting and paint.  Now on order: $92
worth of miscellaneous top hardware from Moss Motors, which has been "a great company to work with."

Z-S carbs disassembled and ready for rebuild (rebuild kit in the blue and white box).  They cleaned up pretty well but
will be hand-polished by Cuz.  New water pump (in box) in background.  Pilote had to Wiki Z-S carbs; assumed they
were S.U.'s.  Zenith-Solex.  They operate on the same variable-venturi principle as S.U.'s, but Zenith-Solex had found
patent-nullifying detail changes in design by the late 1960's.