Hi Inflammatory Barry!
I have seen lots of cars that had some badges missing and I have seen
several cars that said, "RIUMP" "TRUMPH" and other variants created as
the letters fell off. So possibly the TR4 or Herald or whatever badge
had fallen or been taken off, while the Triumph one stayed on. And, as
you said, it may have been extrapolated to "Triumph" from "Unknown but
similar-to-Triumph car." The only one who will be able to tell us is
the original poster!
Keep Truiumphing,
Susan :)
Barry Schwartz wrote:
>
> Hey -- a couple listers picked up on the first email that the cars were
> *Triumphs* --
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> I would think if you were actually looking at the car, which is what I
> gathered the original poster was, one would notice the badging that would
> say either TR4, TR250. If there wasn't any badging how would one know it
> was even a Triumph (unless you knew what it was in the first place?) -
> Besides (maybe in error) I read it to mean another VEHICLE, not necessarily
> another Triumph
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> >Anyone recommend the TR4/5/250 instead of all these wild
> >guesses? They look like a bigger Spit to someone who isn't that
> >familiar with them (I know one person who thought a TR4 was a Spit)and
> they have fins. . .
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> Sorry, not trying to be inflammatory, but to say early TR's had "fins" is
> [just in my very humble opinion], stretching it a tad. To say any big TR
> looks like a Spitfire is kinda like my mother saying, and I love her
> dearly, "I saw a car like yours today". That is to say, that it was some
> shade of red. . .;-)
>
> Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
>
> 72 FI, V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
> 70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
> 70 Spitfire (long term project)
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