[6pack] TR6 colours

[John Macartney]

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

You mean without the black tail and screen surround? Very probably - but these mods would have been
undertaken after the car came off production and would have been done in the Coventry Service
Department that was about 4 miles from the factory complex. As such work was a *post-production*
modification, no amendment would have been made to the vehicle build record to distinguish the
change. All that said, it's highly likely the mod could well have been done by the supplying
dealer - and many were. It wouild have cost less and not fouled up the production flow.

Cheers, Jonmac

PS As an aside on special colours, I've periodically wondered what happened to an E Type Jaguar,
a TR4A and a Sunbeam Alpine delivered to three ladies whose singing trio was well-known in the
US but not Europe. They  came over in 1965/6 ish and caused something of a stir and photo-op in
Coventry City Centre where their new cars were ceremoniously 'handed over.' Nothing too unusual in
that - except all three cars had been special-order painted in the same matching shade of sugar pink 
with
white leather seats and appropriate pink piping. They then vanished together on a tour of Europe and 
we
later heard the E Type was stolen in Italy (and never recovered, most likely the Mafia who usually 
stole
every E Type it could lay its hands on), the TR was written-off somewhere else and the Alpine fell 
off a
crane sling in a European port while being loaded on a ship home.
Could there be a moral in special-order colours? :)