[TR] Early TR4 change points

[pethier at comcast.net]

It was a lot simpler with the Lotus.  There was a plate on the rear edge of the driver door which stated that the car was made in November of 1969.

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Phil Ethier  West Side  Saint Paul Minnesota  USA
1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1993 Suburban,
1994 Miata C package
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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: nwolf at u.washington.edu
> Thank you, Phil!
>    I think yours is the most valuable data point I've gotten so far.  If your 
> eared bonnet release mechanism is original (and if mine is too), it means my car 
> is later than yours, which means... my car is a 1962!  Hooray!  The mystery car 
> has a birthday (almost).
>    Meanwhile, the pattern in the body-in-white numbers is getting interesting:
> 
> Mystery TR4	ZS 10966
> 
> CT 1798 L	ZS 17010
> CT 2846 L	ZS 12911
> CT 5521 LO	ZS 16435
> CT 15093 L	ZS 25136
> CT 22326 L	ZS 44767
> CT 25830 L	ZS 35743
> CT 38746 L	ZS 48829
> 
>    If you plot those numbers, you get a very straight line with a couple of 
> outliers.  Curiouser and curiouser...
> -Nick Wolf
> '62 TR4
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:59:56 +0000 pethier at comcast.net wrote:
> > > 4. Does your bonnet release mechanism have an ear on the right side
> > that sticks 
> > > up about an inch above everything else and then folds over toward
> > the right side 
> > > of the car?
> > 
> > Yes.