The wide mouth grille on the 1958 model was for engine cooling reasons
experienced in USA cars. The factory did not use the TR3A designation, dealers
in the USA used it to denote a new model. The factory did use the TR3B model
designation though.
Bill Redinger
On Nov 6, 2013, at 4:00 PM, Don TR <58tr3a@videotron.ca> wrote:
> Bill - Many years ago (sometime during the last century) Ken Gillanders
told
> me that someone in California made a front apron with the wide grille and
> the Brits liked it so much, it was adopted for the TR3A (which back then
was
> still called a TR3). When I bought my 1958 TR3A brand new in May 1959 the
> paperwork read TR3 - not TR3A.
>
> Don Elliott, Original Owner, Montreal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of BillDentin@aol.com
> Sent: November-06-13 4:11 PM
> To: dlhogye@comcast.net; fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Fot] TR3 Prices
>
> In a message dated 11/05/2013 8:32:18 PM Central Standard Time,
> dlhogye@comcast.net writes:
>
>
>> And, recently, for whatever auction prices do for the collector car
>> market,
>> good or bad, a perfectly restored small mouth TR3 went for $55,000.00.
>> I have my TR3 race car insured for $30K
>
> Amici...
>
> I share Dave's position that the early, small mouthed version is the more
> desirable TR3. Probably because I've owned and raced one for some
> thirty-three years, but more than that...I think it's style is classic.
The
> way I
> understand it...Standard Triumph changed the small mouthed TR3 grill to the
> wide TR3A version because they saw that American cars at the time all had
> wide
> grills. The change was made in an effort to attract more American buyers.
> If that story is so, I always thought that they had shot themselves in the
> foot. Back in the 1950s, any American who was going to purchase a
'Foreign'
>
> car sure wanted it to look 'Foreign' and not American. But the sales were
> pretty good, so who knows.
>
> Bill Dentinger
>
> PS I also agree with Duncan that Grandpa should consider carefully the
> impact a 'gift' or even 'cut rate pricing' might have on his grandson. On
> the
> one hand getting something for nothing can cause you to lose sight of the
> value. Some grandsons could handle such issues just fine. Others not so
> much.
> Grandpa might consider financing the deal. Dealing with the debt has
> great educational value, and Grandpa can always forgive the debt, or a
> portion
> of it when and if that becomes appropriate. Shirley and I recently sold a
> very low mileage 1995 Taurus to one of our grandsons for one dollar. He
> needed a car and was up against the wall financially (college debt). He
> really
> appreciated our gesture. Within two weeks it had a brand new awesome radio
> and sound system, but I still don't have my dollar. At some time, when it
> becomes appropriate, we can always forgive the debt. In the mean time it
> makes for GREAT family dinner table discussion.
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