[6pack] TR6 Colours (Clarifications)

[Joseph Grant]

John:

Were any TR6's delivered to the UK market, Euro market or USA market in BODY
colour ONLY from the factory?  

Joe
'72 TR6 - CC77169
http://www.bowtie6.com/


-----Original Message-----
From: 6pack-bounces+grant=bowtie6.com at autox.team.net
[mailto:6pack-bounces+grant=bowtie6.com at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of John
Macartney
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 19:29
To: Navarrette, Vance; Oliver; 6pack at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [6pack] TR6 Colours (Clarifications)

> Could these be for European models, not just NA models? I
> must agree with others that I do not remember seeing a black TR6.

Rare birds indeed but Black was always available from Standard-Triumph to
special order only and it 
rarely appeared in the colour charts. Interior trim was to customer choice
from standard colur 
range. The minimum paint run was for 25 cars (any model) and these were
always painted on Friday 
afternoons prior to the paint lines being cleaned out every weekend.

> I do recall that the satin black Kamm back and the satin black
> windscreen frame were unique to North America.

Not true. Satin black rear ends and screen frames were 'peculiar' to all TR
models all markets. CKD 
and SKD variants for local build in the 12 (or was it 15?) overseas assembly
plants may have been 
variable.

>Come to think of
> it so were the Union Jack decals on the later models.

Correct

So I suppose
> it is perfectly reasonable to suppose that while all of the indicated
> colors were factory colours, they may not have made it to North America.

Not true. North America had no specially reserved colours or restricted
colours. You guys could 
order what everyone else ordered

> Crap. First PI, now all the cool colours. The Europeans got all
> the good stuff, mumble, mumble. I feel like the white trash relatives
> in the family tree that the continentals would rather not talk about.
> Throw us a bone so we will go away and not scare the neighbors.
> Whimper.

Vance, you surely don't expect a comment? :):):)

Jonmac