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Re: GT6 originality: front spoiler?

To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>, msecres@ibm.net
Subject: Re: GT6 originality: front spoiler?
From: Bob Sykes <s1500@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 15:00:15 -0700
It's even muddier than "Yes & No".  While Joe's comments are in
line with the "authoritative" sources;  Triumph (as would be expected),
introduced some mystical exceptions:

My '74 Spit FM19842UO (Aug 1974) was not fitted with a spoiler.
It did have the quarter valence grille inserts that were deleted on
the later cars fitted with spoilers.  (You can't fit both)

I know of a '73 GT6 KF20632U (who's owner will read this tomorrow)
which is like-wise "spoiler-less" (with the grille inserts).

Perhaps spoilers were not fitted to the first six cars made after
tuesday morning tea-breaks on alternating fort-nights after 1973 ;-)

-- 
Bob Sykes
"You can't beat your brains for entertainment."


Joe Curry wrote:

> Martin,
> Apparantly the answer is "yes and No".  The earlier ones did not have
> the spoiler but the later ones did.  This seems to track with the
> introduction of the 1500 Spit which has the spoiler as standard
> equipment.  Apparantly the GT6 changeover came at KE20,000 (Feb '73). 
> That was also when the Swing-Spring was introduced on the GT6
> 
> msecres@ibm.net wrote:
> > 
> > Was the front spoiler original to the GT6-3?


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