[TR] VTR trips

[Brad Kahler]

I installed the system on my Spitfire about 6 months before leaving for 
Portland Maine and the 99 convention.  In conversations with Bud who was 
going to travel with me he mentioned he would like to install a cruise 
control system as well.  If I remember correctly I bought the parts and 
shipped them to him so he could install it.  It worked well for him on 
the trip to Maine and he's been using it ever since. 

The reversed OD escutcheon worked pretty well.  Its hard to tell that 
the cruise wasn't factory installed.  The only thing I had to do was to 
epoxy a washer on the back side of the escutcheon to hold the cruise 
stalk in the proper position because the hole in the escutcheon was 
slightly to large in diameter.

Worked quite well by the way!

Henry Frye and I tried to use the cruise during the TSD rally without a 
whole lot of success, but hey, it was worth a try!

Brad


ZoboHerald at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/24/2007 4:25:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> vinttr4 at geneseo.net writes:
>
> I spent  those days on the 
> installation of a cruise control -- a commercially  available Audiovox 
> unit that sell for $129 retail or about $90 on eBay. It  takes some 
> ingenuity to do it, but its appearance is not overly obtrusive  and it 
> works wonderfully. It would work on the whole TR range, TR2 to  TR6.
>
> Somebody else installed a cruise of some sort but I don't remember  
> who.
>
>
> ==AM==
> Brad Kahler also did this awhile back on a Spitfire 4, and he put up a web  
> page at:
>  
> <http://www.141.com/triumphs/SpitCruise.html>
>  
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