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Re: MK IV's and 1500's

To: "Fred Griffiths" <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: MK IV's and 1500's
From: Laura.G@141.com (Laura Gharazeddine)
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:49:46 -0800
Fred,

In the Michael Cook book, it says that the first year MkIVs ('71) had the
black dash. (I was thinking that maybe they were just using up spare bits
during a change over-I'd heard that they did that.)

Laura G.
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 5:35 PM
Subject: MK IV's and 1500's


>
> I'm still rather confused by the differences in the MK IV and 1500
> models as we see them in North America.
> I've just read "Triumph Sports Cars" by William Krause, and
> still don't know the answer to this:
> He says the MK IV has a Walnut dash and makes no mention of the
> black plastic dash.  I *have* a 1971 MK IV that has the black plastic
> dash, then I have a '73 1500 that has the walnut dash.
> Any idea when each was introduced?
> Cheers, Fred
> --
> Fred & Wendy Griffiths
> Calgary, Canada
> mailto: griffco@cadvision.com
> http://www.cadvision.com/griffco/index.htm
>
>


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