Phil,
You and I are sounding like politicians with all the waffling! I just
looked in John Thomason's, "Triumph Spitfire and GT6, A Guide to
Originality" and found several references to the Later Spit and GT6
wheels being the same as used on the TR6, but nowhere in any of the
descriptions did it mention leather. The earlier ones however did
specifically say they were leather wrapped.
On the center horn ring pad, I doubt seriously that any of them were
ever done in leather. Although some were molded to look like leather,
it doesn't take much scrutiny to reveal that they are rubber (or some
synthetic).
Regards,
Joe
Philip Haldeman wrote:
>
> Randall Young said:
>
> >I'm afraid I can't help you with what's 'original', especially since I
> >understand the dealers had some latitude to add things like leather
> covers.
> >Which brings me to my point : what you may be looking at is a cover that
> was
> >added later. I have a leather cover on my TR3 that, if I didn't _know_
> >otherwise, I would think was molded on with fake stitching. Over the
> years,
> >the stitching (which in my case is actually vinyl) has 'merged' with the
> >leather.
>
> Here's something I found:
>
> _Triumph TR6_ by William Kennedy, (specs on pg. 143):
> "1969 Model: leather rim, black spokes, 15" diameter."
> "1970-73: leather rim, anodised slotted spokes, 15" diameter."
> "1973 on: leather rim, anodised slotted spokes, 14.5" diameter."
>
> And on page 38, referring to the TR6 model change: "The rim and horn
> centre continued to be padded and leather-wrapped."
>
> Looks like I'll have to reverse myself (again) and assume that the stock
> TR6 wheel does, in fact, have a leather rim.
>
> --Phil Haldeman
> haldeman@accessone.com
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