----- Original Message -----
From: "Don" <cdon2013@earthlink.net>
To: "Jim Davis" <jh_davis@mindspring.com>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: Euro-TR6
> CAKE WALK......... if you have another bumper to cut up ......
>
> It is just a matter of using the left radius for the right end, and the
> right radius for the left inside end.
> Disk sanding or milling all ends for best fit.
>
> You could even go one better if one was willing..........
> And weld the pieces together, sand down flush, than block sand to
> perfection, and rechome.
>
> Viola..... two singles that would look factory !!!
>
> I two believe the wipers really throw the whole theme off, but that is
just
> the photographers lack of eye for detail.
>
> DON
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Davis" <jh_davis@mindspring.com>
> To: <ingate@horizon.com>
> Cc: <6pack@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 5:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Euro-TR6
>
>
> > Shane,
> > Looks like he may have used the end bars for the rear bumpers and cut
> > the tapered ends to fit. The car looks very masculine and aggressive,
> > but I'm not sure I like the "wipers across the windshield" look.
> > Jim Davis
> > Fortson, GA
> > CF38690UO
> > CF37325U
> >
> > ingate@horizon.com wrote:
> > >
> > > All,
> > >
> > > Some of you will recognize me for my lust for hot-rodded
> > > TRs; not the Barris et al approach to modifying American
> > > cars, but the race-track look favoured by our European cousins.
> > >
> > > I found an interesting picture of such a TR6 (see the
> > > pic at www.geocities.com/hottr6/triumph/images/eurotr6.jpg).
> > > The headlights with a slight touch of hepatitis give it away
> > > as being European, but what picqued my interest was the use
> > > of Lucas dome lamps for the running and indicator lights.
> > >
> > > Looking further we see that the front bumper has also been
> > > completely altered, having been cut into rwo corner bumpers,
> > > echoing the scimitar bumpers on the early E-types and DeTomaso
> > > Panteras. Has anyone ever tried this kind of modification?
> > > It looks like he may have started out with a 1974 bumper,
> > > cut it along the line left by the rubber bumpers, but how he
> > > finished off the end caps is beyond me. Any ideas folks?
> > >
> > > The car has obviously been lowered and appears to have a very
> > > pale-coloured upholstery, indicating that this is one man's
> > > interpretation of his favoured steed.
> > >
> > > I like this car!
> > >
> > > Shane Ingate
> > > Melbourne, FL
> >
>
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