[TR] Pre-production TR6

[Wbeech@flash.net]

The saga continues:
Photon rain, could lift the bonnet to check the Comm number.   He says this car is one of 66 cars that were built and sent to dealers through the US, perhaps other locales as well.   He said It has a TR250 steering wheel and the dash is a bit different.  Bottom line, he has decided not to sell it but to restore it first, so I dropped the conversation. 

I did buy a six blade Tropical Fan from him though.  If you have odd parts that you are looking for, his site and contact info is at: www.mcleodsbritishcars.com . He has 10 acres of all the LBC Marques. 

All the best,
Bill B
TS30800L

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On Nov 26, 2015, at 1:44 PM, John Macartney <john.macartney at ukpips.org.uk> wrote:

Another of my 'senior moments' :) The acid test to determine whether it's a
prototype/mule is to check the commission number. If the leading or only
letter in the row is an 'X' then that means Experimental, so it'll be a
mule. In the event the commission number looks 'normal' but is in the first
three or four of the start of the model series, then this will signify the
car was probably built 'off tools' meaning it was effectively bolted
together by hand. 'Off tools' cars were usually used by the company as Press
Cars and an example is Stag. LD1DLBW was a RHD car that's still in the UK
while LD2LDLBW was a LHD  and shipped to the US to become the US launch car
and was finally finished as a complete restoration by Joe Pawlak (ISOA) in
Illinois last year. Joe found a lot of peculiar *little* things on LD2 in
comparison to two other later Stags he's rebuilt that were peculiar to those
cars, though you'll have to ask him what they were.
Moral here, is don't believe anything you're told unless the seller can
fully document his/her claim. A Heritage Certificate is the only accurate
and dependable document, so if seller can't produce one of those, don't get
excited about what he claims it 'might' be.

Jonmac



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