In a message dated 8/27/2001 9:36:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
randallyoung@earthlink.net writes:
> As some of you know, I recently acquired a Sports 6...
>
> However, I noticed that both of these cars have an apparently original
> tachometer mounted in the dash, while my car has only a central
> speedometer (with integral fuel gauge) and a temp gauge. Does that mean
> that both cars at the show had the later Vitesse Mk II dash ? Or am I
> missing something ?
>
To my knowledge, none of the Sports 6-badged cars had the tachometer.
> My SPC lists two different fascia and panel assemblies for the Sports 6,
> the early dash panel P/N is 566694, while the later is 568639. However,
> there is no change point listed. Does anyone know what the difference
> is, and when the change occurred ?
>
I believe the difference IS the smaller speedo paired with the tachometer in
the later dash, which I believe started around HB15001.
> Also, I noticed that the bonnet buffers were different. My car looks
> like the illustrations in the SPC, with a conical rubber piece mounted
> to each side of the bonnet, similar to the TR4A but pointed the opposite
> direction. The cars at the show had a 'V' shaped piece on the bonnet,
> and a matching rubber-covered bracket on the bulkhead. Any ideas whence
> the difference ?
>
Those "V" shaped pieces are (almost) the earliest style of Herald/Vitesse
bonnet locator; apparently they were replaced by the newer style conical
buffers sometime before your car was built. I don't have my SPC handy, so I
don't know if it shows a change point on these or not. I believe that change
happened on the Heralds sometime between late 1962 and early 1963 (calendar
year, not necessarily "model" year).
> BTW, I didn't check the commission number on the Sports 6, but the
> Vitesse was quite a bit earlier than my car. Does anyone know the
>
I've only seen a relatively small sampling of true Sports 6 numbers. With
that in mind, I've yet to see a commission number on a Sports 6 as high as
HB9000 (LCV). As I recall, Cecil's Vitesse 6 convertible -- the one you saw
at the show -- is a very, very early car, with convertible body number 9 or
thereabouts. However, the car had been "upgraded" to 2L specifications
including engine and dashboard some time ago and was like that in 1996 when I
first saw the car.
I'd be curious to know who owned the Sports 6 and if you could get the
commission number.
--Andy
Andrew Mace, Vice President, Member Services
and 10/Herald/Vitesse (Sports 6) Vehicle Consultant
The Vintage Triumph Register <www.vtr.org>
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