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Re: TR6 - making more sense of numbers?

To: "Lars G. Johnsen" <lars.johnsen@hd.uib.no>, TRIUMPHS@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: TR6 - making more sense of numbers?
From: Lawrence Schilling <lchillin@siu.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:59:27 -0500
Is this also true about STAGS????  Everything I read says almost all STAG
manuals had overdrive.  Mine does not.  Will my commission LE22912U confirm
or deny the trannys authenticity?




At 03:02 PM 9/24/96 +0200, you wrote:
>Michael Noerregaard wrote:
>
>> Can one tell from these numbers whether there I can expect an overdrive
>> gearbox? In my Triumph Buying Guide it states that all American version
>> TR6's from 1974 and onward were fitted with overdrive - does this hold true?
>
>No it is not true, some were fitted with overdrive, and some not. You
>can see from the commission number whether the car has overdrive or not:
>
>With overdrive: CF XXXXX UO <- O for Overdrive!
>Without: CF XXXXX U
>
>Best, Lars
>'74 TR6 CF27324UO
>


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