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RE: 76 TR6 - What is the label that goes on the left side wheel a rch o

To: ghutmacher@stanleyworks.com, triumphs@autox.team.net, peterz@merak.com
Subject: RE: 76 TR6 - What is the label that goes on the left side wheel a rch opposite the distributor?
From: Day.John@fin.gc.ca
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:09:03 -0500
This looks like a job for Bill Piggott!!

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Hutmacher, Greg [SMTP:ghutmacher@stanleyworks.com]
        Sent:   February 4, 1999 10:17 AM
        To:     'TR6 List'; 'Peter Zaborski'
        Subject:        RE: 76 TR6 - What is the label that goes on the left
side wheel a rch  opposite the distributor?


        My 76 TR6 also appears never to have had any plate on the wheel arch
(no
        marks, discoloration, difference in fading, etc) but does have the
two
        "rivet" holes in the wheel arch. Everyone on the list that has a 76
TR6 (and
        maybe 75's also?), open your bonnet and look at the top of your left
side
        inner wheel arch.  Does anyone find anything other than two small
holes but
        no plate?  I was considering filling these holes in when I
eventually
        refinish my engine bay.  I would guess that maybe any 76's that have
had the
        engine bay repainted may have done the same which will confuse us
even more.
        I'd be curious to know what the historians have to say.  Regards,
Greg

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                From:  Peter Zaborski [SMTP:peterz@merak.com]
                Sent:  Wednesday, February 03, 1999 5:54 PM
                To:  'TR6 List'
                Subject:  RE: 76 TR6 - What is the label that goes on the
left side
        wheel a rch  opposite the distributor?


                > From: Radley, Jack [mailto:JackR@SHRIVERCO.COM]
                > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 4:31 PM
                > 
                > In addition, the British Leyland badges on
                > the fenders behind the front wheel openings
                > are missing.  It is my understanding that the
                > factory ran out toward the end of the 
                > production run.

                Well on my 76 (CF58310 UO built on Jul 14/76 -- last day of
TR6
        production
                -- CF58328 U was the last one) the BL badges are there. As I
have
        owned the
                car for almost 17 years and bought in very good original
shape, I am
        fairly
                sure the badges are from the factory. I have heard that the
badges
        were
                sporadically applied depending on how the guy doing it felt
that
        day. May be
                your car was left alone by him the day it was built.

                > I have two holes in my left wheel arch, but no plate
                > and no indication (like a shadow, or  difference
                > in paint condition) that anything was ever there.

                That's because the earlier cars had their commission plates
placed
        there. At
                some point (the TRF catalog has this info) the comm plates
were
        moved to the
                left side door post. Look there and you will see a plate
with
        (hopefully)
                the same number as on the windshield frame. I think the
inner wheel
        arches
                were just fabricated with the rivet holes "pre-drilled" and
were
        never
                utilized in the later cars. The fact you see no "shadow" is
a good
                indication of this.

                HTH.

                --- Peter Zaborski  CF58310UO ---

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