My 1965 TR4A is as original as they come. It's hoodsticks are
beige/tan.
Gary Storrs
1960 Austin Healey Sprite Mk1
1965 Triumph TR4A IRS LO
1972 Lotus Elan +2S 130
1987 Jaguar XJ6 Series III
1957 BMW Isetta Cabriolet
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> From: Lenny Seidman[SMTP:lseidman@erols.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 1998 10:12 AM
> To: Andrew Mace
> Cc: John Pike; Scions of Stanpart
> Subject: Re: Hoodstick Colours
>
> I'll have to side with Andy on this one. All of the TR4's that I have
> owned or parted out(total 7) have had tan painted hoodsticks as well
> as
> 3 TR3's that I ahve owned and none of these hoodsticks was ever
> repainted except by me and when I did repaint I tried to find a tan as
> close as possible to the original paint.
>
> Lenny Seidman
>
>
> Andrew Mace wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, John Pike wrote:
> >
> > > ...From a purely aesthetic viewpoint, I don't
> > > think I'd like to see green sticks in a grey interior, and I'm
> sure you
> > > could think of some other relatively ghastly combinations.
> >
> > I don't know, John. That appeared to be the way TS71909L was
> equipped
> > *originally*. I stress originally, because the original grey
> interior is
> > still there. Unfortunately, what's left of it lives under layers of
> vinyl
> > paint: blue, tan and ultimately black. Apparently, the previous
> owners
> > couldn't make up their mind WHAT color they wanted the inside! But
> the
> > hoodsticks appear always to have been the green of the body.
> TS73624L,
> > originally a white car, appears to have had white hoodsticks
> originally.
> > So the body-color theory seems to bear out at least up through
> mid-April
> > 1960, when 73624 was built.
> >
> > But I have seen (and/or owned) TR3As and TR3Bs in the higher 70000s
> or
> > 80000s (comm. no.) with the "sandlewood"/beige) hoodsticks, notably
> > TS80315L (sold) and TCF1564L (languishing along with all my other
> cars).
> >
> > --Andy
>
>
> --
> Lenny Seidman
> Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, USA
> email: lseidman@erols.com
>
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