All interior panels were attached with No. 4 metal screws
with matching cup washers. The tonneau capping piece above the dash was solid with no
center hole for a vent control until TS-6157 when a vent was added. Four chrome capping
bolts with chrome washers were present between the windscreen and tonneau capping piece
above the dashboard. The capping bolts sealed off holes where optional competition
"Brooklands" windscreens attached to a captured nut affixed to the underside of
the cowl. This feature continued on TR3 models through commission number TS-32833. The
passenger grab handle was narrower than later models and was painted black rather than
chrome plated. The center instrument panel was covered with the same color vinyl as the
dash board rather than painted with black wrinkle paint. The overdrive switch (if
equipped) was a push/pull type similar to the panel light switch. It carried the words
"overdrive pull" (through commission number TS-6265 only). Interior door pulls
were leather straps the same color as the door panels and attached to the doors at the
frontmost end with plated arrowhead and screw at the top of the door panel. The rearmost
end was attached with a plated acorn nut to a stud protruding through the door panel from
the door latch mechanism. A chrome plated escutcheon was present under the rearmost end of
the door pull between the door panel and the door pull. Chrome plated "wedge
type" sidecurtain brackets were present with a knurled nut for tightening the
sidecurtain into the bracket. Through commission number TS-4228, the bonnet release was
located on the right side of the interior just below the dashboard. The release looks like
a choke cable with a color keyed knob (black or tan) with no lettering. The clutch and
brake pedal pads did not have a "T" cast into the rubber. Instead, vertical
lines were cast in the pads (see owner's manual for picture). The brake and clutch pedal
assembly was different on vehicles with the Lockheed twin master cylinder (through
commission number TS-13045) and is not interchangeable with that of later models.
Upholstery colors available included stone, blackberry, red, vermillion, black, gray,
brown, blue, and geranium. The seat squabs were squared off on the front corners and
featured four longitudinal pleats as on early TR3s. The seat backs were not padded as
thickly as those on TR3A seats. Seat upholstery piping was the same color as the seats
rather that a contrasting color as on early TR3s. TR2 seatbacks were rigid; neither seat
back folded forward (the passenger seatback folds forward TS-8637 on). The carpet set
consisted of 26 separate bound pieces glued down with the exception of the pieces below
the feet which were attached with snaps. No carpet clips were present on the firewall
since the vertical part of the foot well was carpeted with a separate glued-on piece.
Carpet colors available included stone, brown, black, blackberry, red, and gray. Carpet
was cut-pile(approximately 1/4 inch thick), non-loop wool material similar to Wilton II
wool carpet. A heel pad was present on the driver's side carpet only. The material used
for the heel pad was similar to running board material with lines going left to right (see
owner's manual for pictures). An overdrive transmission was available as option. Pre-
TS-5980, the overdrive used a 1 1/8" diameter operating piston, and the overdrive
operated on fourth gear only. Post- TS-5980 (or TS-6266?), a 1 3/8" operating piston
was used and the overdrive operated on second, third, and fourth gears.
A transmission fluid
level dipstick was present along with a rubber access plug located on the right side of
the transmission cover. Rubber access plugs for the transmission dipstick and universal
joint, as well as the stick shift lever grommet fit down on top of the carpeting. No
carpet binding was present around these openings unlike later models. A special door seal
was used on the inside bottom edge of "long door" models. The seal was
"L" shaped with the short leg of the "L" pointing upwards at the front
of the door, with the long part of the "L" then running backwards from there on
the bottom edge of the entire length of the door. The seal was glued to the door, was made
of foam rubber, and formed an air seal between the door and the inner rocker panel when
the door was closed. Draft excluder seals (two per door, located along the back edge of
the side footwells between the front leading edge of the door and the side footwells, and
just behind the rear vertical edge of the doors under the interior dogleg panel) were
covered with vinyl to match the door panel material, rather than fur-flex as on later
models. The draft excluder seals were attached to the edge of the side footwells with
vinyl covered plywood doglegs matching the contour of the rear edge of the side footwells.
The plywood dogleg strips were approximately 1/4 inch thick and 7/8 inch wide with beveled
edges and were attached to the side footwell panels with screws.Jack hole plugs located on
the floor in front of the seats on early TR2s are made of steel 9not rubber) with a spring
steel crosspiece to hold them in place (see owner's manual or repair manual for picture).
Tonneau capping pieces just behind the doors fit down over the top of the interior dogleg
panel unlike later models where the dogleg interior panel fit over the tonneau capping
piece. The interior gasoline tank cover panel was Rexine-covered millboard. No pleats were
present. The interior of the boot was covered with a single piece of carpet with no bound
edges, and was attached with 6 screws and cup washers (3 screws on each side).
