<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">As part of a discussion I'm having with a TR friend in Europe, we're thinking about what we know regarding radiator overflow bottles and sidescreen cars.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">My understanding is that they were never fitted from the factory, but they might have been fitted by dealers and/or early owners to keep coolant from puking from the overflow hose.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Certainly my TR3B had an ooold radiator overflow bottle fitted to it when I got the car in 1981.  It seems to be the contemporary TR4 bottle on my car.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Here's that original bottle alongside the car's original windscreen washer bottle.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-zJv7Htg/0/39ff9135/X5/i-zJv7Htg-X5.jpg">https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-zJv7Htg/0/39ff9135/X5/i-zJv7Htg-X5.jpg</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-wHHWhnf/0/a051e9f7/X5/i-wHHWhnf-X5.jpg">https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-wHHWhnf/0/a051e9f7/X5/i-wHHWhnf-X5.jpg</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Anyone have any thoughts here?</div></div>