I am planning on keeping the TR4 essentially stock.
I have one modified car, the Lotus. It has been pretty-well hacked up, but
I have brought parts of the bodywork back to stock after removing myriad
scoops and the like.. Since the DPOs did not hack up the wheel arches, I
probably won't put flares on it. Saying that, I am unlikely to every put
carpet in it and sure not tearing out the koa-wood dash to put in an
original one. I'm allowing the visual impact of a lowered Europa to speak
for itself, nasty home paint job and all.
The TR4 is different. This car is a survivor. Largely unmolested. A cheap
professional repaint a decade ago is not the greatest, but it is a "whole"
Triumph. I even took out the Vicky Brit steering wheel and put in the
original which came to me in the trunk. It just looks as if it belongs.
Even if I am not the guy to restore it, and even if it never gets restored,
this TR4 cries out to be left pretty-much as is. The carpet is a
non-original red, but it looks period.
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa 65/2597, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 TR4 CT2846L
pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/ http://www.lotusowners.com
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