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Re: TR3A commission number

To: Will <tr6@mac.com>
Subject: Re: TR3A commission number
From: David Massey <105671.471@compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:00:14 -0500
Cc: "[unknown]" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Message text written by Will
>Last time we were in France with the TR we found a TR3a & Vitesse in 
the hotel car park one evening. Next morning we met the owners & had 
a chat. We discovered the 3a had been imported from the UK & 
converted to LHD. I suggested that the previous owner could have 
picked up a (cheaper) LHD car in the states & the owner told me that 
the car had originally been in the US, imported to the UK & converted 
to RHD, before going to France for a LHD conversion!
<

It surely was a pre-60 000 model car as the post-60 000 cars are not easily
reversible.  My 57 TR3 (small mouth) has the fire wall openings for placing
the steering wheel, etc. on either side and I often muse about converting
it over to RHD jsut for the novelty of it.  After all, a car with a push
button starter (and a hand crank, too), side curtains, cutdown doors that
allow one to pick up the paper without opening the door is a welcome
respite from modern transportation and putting the steering wheel on the
other side  only enhances the experience, in my opinion.  But, that's a
project for another day.

Dave
57 TR3
71 TR6
80 TR8

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