On Aug 1, Art Kelly wrote:
I'll tell you why I didn't order it in '64. Almost all cars then had "three
on the tree" -- since the TR4 had a 4 speed transmission why pay extra (less
than a hundred bucks, if I remember, but that was about a third of a month's
salary then) for a fifth speed? Four speeds was considered a "hot" item. I
did order radial tires, wire wheels, sun visors, a heater and a tonneau
cover
- --all options -- then I ran out of money so couldn't order every option.
OD
was less important then than those others.
Hi, Art
A fifth speed? Obviously your salesman should have been shot! I can't
believe he didn't know that O/D on a TR4 gave you 7 speeds in total.
But what I've read on the earlier post stands up to scrutiny. For some
obscure reason, US dealers just didn't sell overdrives on US ordered cars.
Heaven knows why not. From what I remember, every car we sold in the UK to
US visitors or US service personnel had overdrives. Financially, it was go
for the jugular as far as our commission was concerned and when you told
them an O/D gave seven ultra close speeds on a four cogger, the signature
went straight on the line that was dotted.
Jonmac
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