Joe Grant wrote:
> Were any TR6's delivered to the UK market, Euro market or USA market in BODY
> colour ONLY from the factory?
You mean without the black tail and screen surround? Very probably - but these
mods would have been
undertaken after the car came off production and would have been done in the
Coventry Service
Department that was about 4 miles from the factory complex. As such work was a
*post-production*
modification, no amendment would have been made to the vehicle build record to
distinguish the
change. All that said, it's highly likely the mod could well have been done by
the supplying
dealer - and many were. It wouild have cost less and not fouled up the
production flow.
Cheers, Jonmac
PS As an aside on special colours, I've periodically wondered what happened to
an E Type Jaguar,
a TR4A and a Sunbeam Alpine delivered to three ladies whose singing trio was
well-known in the
US but not Europe. They came over in 1965/6 ish and caused something of a stir
and photo-op in
Coventry City Centre where their new cars were ceremoniously 'handed over.'
Nothing too unusual in
that - except all three cars had been special-order painted in the same
matching shade of sugar pink
with
white leather seats and appropriate pink piping. They then vanished together on
a tour of Europe and
we
later heard the E Type was stolen in Italy (and never recovered, most likely
the Mafia who usually
stole
every E Type it could lay its hands on), the TR was written-off somewhere else
and the Alpine fell
off a
crane sling in a European port while being loaded on a ship home.
Could there be a moral in special-order colours? :)
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