To be honest, Darrell - I thought they were all adhesive. Well remember
touching the edges and feeling a 'ridge' of what I thought was thin tape. The
masking off job to spray paint a bonnet under production conditions would
probably have resulted in a less than 'quality' finish and diversion of the
body off the main paint line to do it. Let's face it, the general paint finish
on TR's was never good and a pre-cut piece of tape with a simple jig to apply
it is likely to provide consistently acceptable results?
You Guys Love to confuse us don't you?
My Dear Sir, I think it's probably more of the popular misconception of
Standard-Triumph being like MG and all the others in the minds of most US
enthusiasts? Little old workshops, cranky old men with three pairs of
spectacles and roses over the doorways :::)))? From what I've seen of
promulgated myths over the last few years, the vast majority seem to have
started your side of the pond and I picked them up on lists like this :::)))
It's you who's confusing us!
Cheers, JM
----- Original Message -----
From: TR250Driver@aol.com
To: standardtriumph@btinternet.com ; 6pack@autox.team.net
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: [TR] TR250 Silver Stripe Paint Code
In a message dated 4/18/2006 4:59:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
standardtriumph@btinternet.com writes:
AFAIK, all the stripes were fitted/painted at the factory. Can't see what
useful purpose would have been served in getting the dealers to fit them
-
unless the car was transit damaged. Even if it was, this is something
that
would have been fixed by the importing company prior to release to the
dealer.
I well recall earning valuable extra overtime on Saturdays by carrying
out
stockchecks at the Honeybourne transit park on TR5's and 250's. Quite
apart
from checking the commission numbers fixed to the screen, the only
immediate
'distant' identifier was the stripe. When confronted with up to 10,000
cars in
one parking lot in (fairly) neat rows, you look for the one
distinguishing
feature - and that's the stripe.
Very Good John,
That may end any debate on this Dealer Installation legend. However, I
swear "honest Injun" the one TR250 I saw, brought into Team Triumph here in
the States as an original, unrestored Signal Red TR250 had an applied,
reflective silver tape on it. I was astonished at the time since the vast
majority of TR250's stripes were obviously painted on. Is it possible that
some 3M salesman was just trying to save the Company a few Bucks and a few
were sent out as Trial Balloons?
You Guys Love to confuse us don't you?
Cheers,
Darrell
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