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RE: Observation @ VTR

To: Andrew Mace <amace@UNIX2.NYSED.GOV>
Subject: RE: Observation @ VTR
From: Gregory Petrolati <gpetrola@prairienet.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:44:30 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: Chip Bond <spirals@ESINET.NET>, "'Alexander Joseph H'" <AlexanderJosephH@Waterloo.deere.com>, "'Amici Triumphi'" <fot@Autox.Team.Net>, "'Triumphs'" <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Andrew Mace wrote:
> 
> Now, the car would have been an ambitious, but probably doable,
> restoration project. Then, it was (sorry) junk! But bits of the car live
> on today (how's that dashboard, Greg P?).

        Primered and hanging in my garage, Mr. Mace... It will go into the 
        `4 this winter.

        The Green Man, my`4 is something of a bitsa car... The tub came from 
        a TR4a from  california (whose frame and running gear went to a 
        turnkey kit car, a "Hunter"). My `4 was a parts car that in my
        ignorance about these things at the time, I restored.
        
        The only original outer panel is the bonnet. Lucky for me the 
        frame, etc. was in pretty good shape.

        My opinion of the dearth of `4s is that they were much more 
        utilitarian than the 3's. They got used up... Driven til they fell, 
        apart and/or canibalised to update a `3 (though that sounds a bit 
        specious for the general), and used in kit cars. 

        I don't think they had the "novelty" of the TR3s (looks), or the 
        "power" of the TR6, which also benefitted by the sobriquet "last 
        of the hairy-chested sports cars", which prompted people to hang 
        on to them.

        I think the early TR4 only had a run of ~49,000, The TR4a I don't 
        know how many were made. The TR6 I think had production of 
        somewhere around 147,000 considerably more than I think both The 
        TR4 or `4A I'm not including the TR250 because the production 
        numbers were so low.


gpetrola@prairienet.org                         1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
        "That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois



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