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Re: [6pack] TR6 colours

To: "6-Pack" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [6pack] TR6 colours
From: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:28:06 -0000
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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