Never thought i'd own a prewar car.

Lovely. You have great taste in cars sir.

 

Congrats

Looks terrific!

 

That's a beaut! Real clean - best of luck with it!

 

Beautiful!!!

Pete

 

Absolutely stunning!! I bet it's just a blast to drive.

Jedi

 

I would imagine - not exactly a modern suspension for sure. But geez it looks COOL!!!



Jedi

 

So it's a K3 right?

Nuvolari drove one of those in the TT I think. What's this cars history?. I assume genuine.

Very pretty car.
Pete

 

RB, you're a true Gearhead. Proud of you, mate.

 

This might make you laugh, but I worked with a guy who was a MG fan and he was making a "replica" of a K3 ... never saw it and have no idea if it was ever finished.

He had previously restored a TF or T something.
Pete

 

Beautiful classic!

 

Fantastic!

How do you operate shifter?

Best

You need a Nigel Shiftright Hat.

 

Yes, I too would like a tutorial on how the shifter works. Do you pop it in, say, 3rd or 4th and then it will go up one gear each time the clutch is depressed? Or does it just go straight to whatever gear you have pre-selected when you depress the clutch?

 

So, do they have endless threads on K3chat.com about how often you have to change out your transmission bands?

If there is no clutch, is it just tension (or lack of) on the belts that controls whether power is delivered to the wheels or not? And the non-clutch pedal is what controls this tension? What was the factory's thinking behind this setup at the time? Was it stronger or lighter than a conventional arrangement?

I just love seeing all the vastly different engineering solutions for "how to operate basic car functions" that the different manufacturers were coming up with in the pre-war years. Now that everything is so standardized, we are left with nothing more to argue about than differences in cupholder deployment and LED vs. HID headlights.

 

Cars with preselector gearboxes have fluid flywheels I think and the gearboxes are very heavy.

My father had an Armstrong Siddeley which had one of these (and also ball joint front suspension), infact Armstrong Siddeley were the first car manufacturer to use them I believe.

According to Wikipedia some race cars didn't have a fluid flywheel and just used the bands ... somehow, so it would be interesting to know what the K3 uses?
Pete

 

ahhh....a good old mg with a "help yourself"gearbox...i had a 1.5 riley with a similar lump...as a mr.p hill told me at a vintage race years ago, "you won't be the fastest car, but will have the most lightening quick shifts!"... as for the springs and shockers(sic) consider yourself lucky...messr bugatti believed springs were for locating the axles..not for the ride..most prewar leaf spring cars took up the movement in the chassis..the old ones do handle better with things tightened up a bit...see "kidney belt"


[must be the super rare "hydraulic brake" option....you must try screaming into turn 3 at laguna seca in a t35b with nothing but a series of braided cables to rely on..the guys that drove these things when they were new were brave indeed!!]