Hey Darrell!
According to my brochure:
1. The rockers are blacked below the trim strip
2. The plug wires appear to be black Champions. Since this is a brochure, it
is possible to not be color correct on the wires, so I won't bet my life on
that one.
3. The seatbelts are hard to see, but have what looks to be the same crest
as on the horn push.....that should say Triumph, right? (The belts are also
red on this red car)
Jim
I've sold both my 1969 sixes I've owned, but the TR250's are hard for me to
part with. If YOU keep it up, you're gonna own one of every year!
:^)
----- Original Message -----
From: <TR250Driver@aol.com>
To: <britauto@ihpc.net>; <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: TR250 Valence Paint
> In a message dated 10/24/02 12:46:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> britauto@ihpc.net writes:
>
>
> > /Todd,
> >
> > 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. I
actually
> > put my grille in while the front of the valance was painted Red and you
> > could see the red behind the grille.... I then painted it satin black.
> >
> > Another item open for debate is the color of the steel wheels....black
or
> > silver?
> >
> > Bruce Harding
> > 58 TR3, 68 TR250, 80 TR8
> >
> >
> >
>
> Hi guys,
> This is interesting. My TR250 is Royal Blue and was definitely body color
on
> both sides of the valance. Is it possible that Triumph did it both ways?
I
> know Tom's TR250 is white. You think they blacked out the front on the
> lighter cars? You think they were just toying with us because they knew
it
> would drive us NUTS? TR4's and TR6's are body color for sure, so that's my
> story and I'm sticking to it. Wheels were black unless you had wires. But
> how about those ignition wires? Were the green like the TR6 or were they
> black with Champion ends? What about that Silver Stripe? Were some of them
> done with 3M Reflective Tape? What about the seat belts? Did they have
the
> Triumph Shield or did they say Standpart? Were the rockers blacked out or
> were they body color? Whatever your answers are you gotta love the bridge
> car to the Last of the Hairy Chested Ones. Did you know that there were
> fewer 69 TR6's imported to the US than TR250's?
> Cheers,
> Darrell
> 68 TR250
> 71 TR6
> 69 TR6 (this one is Bob's but I'm working on him)
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