Alan,
In every front view of the TR250 I've ever seen, including the one in the
Original TR4-6, you can't see the valence. Howevery the TR4&4A you can see
it & it's the same as body color. I suppose it could be the black on the
grille obscuring view? Currently mine is mostly black, but so is the front
1/4 of the engine compartment. This is probably oil blown around in the
engine compartment, but it's hard to figure out how it got on the front of
the valence?
Thanks for the advice,
Todd
>From: CP25616@aol.com
>Reply-To: CP25616@aol.com
>To: 6pack@autox.team.net
>Subject: Colour of TR250 front valence
>Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:47:51 EDT
>
>I think this is an area that's open for dispute. When I restored my 250 I
>got a list of items to check for from Tom Waddell (VTR Vehicle
>Consultant)... one of the items is the front valance. According to Tom the
>front should be black and the side towards the engine body color.... that's
>the way I did mine (my body color is red). I have a friend that purchased
>his TR250 from the original owner... the car was never hit or
>repainted....he swears that the front of the valance was body color
>(Triumph
>Racing Green). I justified black by looking at pictures of white 250's....
>if the front of the valance was body color the white would show up behind
>the grill...and none of the pictures I found showed the white.
>
>Bruce, I wholeheartedly agree with your statement above, I have seen a few
>original TR5's over on this side of the pond and can concur that the ones I
>have seen have all been flat black on the front of the front valence with
>body paint on the inside.
>More than likely someone will tell us different though!!
>Hope this answers your first query Todd.
>
>Alan Graham
>Scotland
>TR6 and TR5 Prototype X755
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