Description
With bags of personality, this wind in the hair Michelotti styled TR4 is easily maintained and tremendous fun. With its factory fitted Surrey hard top, the facility of an enclosed cabin provides for ‘all seasons’ motoring with the option of removing the aluminium centre section. Though many TR’s are resurrected as rebuilds, low mileage and largely original survivors such as this are much rarer. With an impressive file of paperwork charting its life, there is also a very unusual photographic record of this car – the first pictures being taken at the original owner’s home when it was less than a week old. The car was photographed again at 22, 000 miles in 1978 for a Sothebys auction catalogue (testament even then to its outstanding condition) and there were more photographs taken by the second owner in the early 1980’s. It was photographed again ‘as found’ following some years in dry storage and more still from 2008 when the owner re-united the car with the original family taking snaps of it on the same driveway spot where it had stood back in 1965. About 10 years ago the car was very sympathetically rejuvenated to show condition. It was stripped and repainted in its original factory black and the metal dash was also removed for painting in its original white. Approximately 2 years ago a complete new interior was fitted in the original Matador Red, new 5x15 chrome wire wheels were fitted with new 165-15 Blockley tyres and a NOS Abarth twin outlet exhaust fitted. This is the purest example of Michelotti’s timeless Italian design, with the lines unspoilt by the TR4A’s chrome trim and side lights or aftermarket wing mirrors. With the factory colour scheme of black over red set off by the chrome wire wheels, this car looks absolutely stunning and it is immaculate. With history and just 50, 000 miles covered from new this TR4 is an unrepeatable opportunity for the purchaser seeking a correct, unmolested example.
