[TR] Triumphs Digest, Vol 8, Issue 7

[Mike Coe]

Get in touch with the TR7/TR8 Wedge Club of which I'm a member, that has 
HUGE information on this category.
I believe a ""very"" few TR8's {perhaps three to five} were made late 1979 
following the success of the Rallied TR7V8.
Most TR8's came into being during 1980. Followed by a lesser number in 1981. 
The last October 1981.
My TR8 was made August 1981, and is a superb driver [love the sound of the 
V8]. Though registered here as a 1982 TR8 because it was a specific ordered 
model by British Leyland. Canada; having the capitol C in the serial number 
for Canada. These {I believe special order from the factory} 1981 cars were 
allowed into Canada by the Canadian Government because of our connection to 
Britain. The U.S. would however not permit such a grant when approach by the 
England !!
A Pal of mine is considering selling his 1981 TR8...only because of his age. 
It's here in Canada.
Cheers
Mike Coe - Calgary


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   1. Re: Pre production TR8s (Jack Mc)
   2. Re: Pre production TR8s (Joe Burlein)


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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 15:31:38 -0500
From: Jack Mc <McGaheyRx at aol.com>
To: Joe Burlein <floridatr6 at cfl.rr.com>
Cc: "<triumphs at autox.team.net>" <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] Pre production TR8s
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Yes, there were such animals and they are very well documented. There is a 
TWOA member who maintains a list of all known surviving coupes and a wealth 
of information is available.

Generally, and off the top of my head, there were 2 production runs of 
preproduction coupes - 1 small run in early 1977 with VINs ACNX -  ACNXX, 
and another larger run later in 1977 with VINs ACN10xx - ACN1xxx.
Ted Schumacher owns ACN1 and brought it to the 2014 VTR Convention - his son 
(I think) has ACN2 and I have ACN3 and ACN1049. I have a lot of 
documentation that came with ACN3 including a letter that lists a number of 
preproduction coupes sold by Triumph in 1980 - i.e. a number of 
preproduction coupes were held by the company for a couple of years and 
never went to dealers. ACN1049 was originally sold by a dealer in 
Birmingham. I don't think any of the ACN cars originally had "TR8" on them 
anywhere. I believe there were other TR8 coupes made a bit later with prefix 
TCN but I don't think those were considered "pre-production"

Cheers,
Jack Mc

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> On Jan 6, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Joe Burlein <floridatr6 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have an "official" information about pre production TR8 
> convertibles? Were there really such animals?  I know they had coupes but 
> I haven't heard about a "dealer only" version for sales demos until 
> recently. Curious if it is true and if so if there is any serial number 
> info available.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 17:51:40 -0500
From: Joe Burlein <floridatr6 at cfl.rr.com>
To: Jack Mc <McGaheyRx at aol.com>
Cc: "<triumphs at autox.team.net>" <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] Pre production TR8s
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Cool.  Any convertibles in that mix in 79 that were sent to dealers?

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> On Jan 6, 2015, at 15:31, Jack Mc <McGaheyRx at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, there were such animals and they are very well documented. There is a 
> TWOA member who maintains a list of all known surviving coupes and a 
> wealth of information is available.
>
> Generally, and off the top of my head, there were 2 production runs of 
> preproduction coupes - 1 small run in early 1977 with VINs ACNX -  ACNXX, 
> and another larger run later in 1977 with VINs ACN10xx - ACN1xxx.
> Ted Schumacher owns ACN1 and brought it to the 2014 VTR Convention - his 
> son (I think) has ACN2 and I have ACN3 and ACN1049. I have a lot of 
> documentation that came with ACN3 including a letter that lists a number 
> of preproduction coupes sold by Triumph in 1980 - i.e. a number of 
> preproduction coupes were held by the company for a couple of years and 
> never went to dealers. ACN1049 was originally sold by a dealer in 
> Birmingham. I don't think any of the ACN cars originally had "TR8" on them 
> anywhere. I believe there were other TR8 coupes made a bit later with 
> prefix TCN but I don't think those were considered "pre-production"
>
> Cheers,
> Jack Mc
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Jan 6, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Joe Burlein <floridatr6 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does anyone have an "official" information about pre production TR8 
>> convertibles? Were there really such animals?  I know they had coupes but 
>> I haven't heard about a "dealer only" version for sales demos until 
>> recently. Curious if it is true and if so if there is any serial number 
>> info available.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> ** triumphs at autox.team.net **
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