Andrew Mace wrote:
>
> Costigan's book is fascinating and
> wonderful...and almost completely lacking in information on versions of
> Heralds sold outside of the UK, particularly U.S. versions. The U.S. cars
> do differ in any number of ways, some of which are decently documented in
> the spare parts catalogues, and some of which are not.
This raises an interesting point. Mike Costigan would be the first to
agree that change points to Triumph models were not a clear cut affair,
with "old-type" fittings being fitted to vehicles long after they had
been officially superceded. I've made a point of studying this kind of
detail over the last few years, eg, the small indicator/side lights were
supposedly fitted on 1200s only up to chassis no.GA83026,(according to
the factory parts list) which would be mid to late 1962. My current
daily driver is a 1964 1200, chassis no.GA150626DL - this has the small
lights from new! I would even go as far as to say that ALL the original
(UK) 1200s I have seen upto late 1964 have had the small sidelights!
Basically, I wouldn't necessarily say that having supposedly obsolete
parts fitted to your car is an export oddity, it's just the way Triumph
did things!
Bill
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