My 66 TR4A has silver wheels and as far as I can tell, they have not been
painted.
Rick
TR4A CT57505L
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
To: Chris Lillja <Chris_Lillja@pupress.princeton.edu>
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: Spare Wheel color
>
>On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Chris Lillja wrote:
>
>> ...disc wheel...TR4A...
>> It's a dull primer black now. I was thinking of painting it a "warm
silver" (eastwood)
>> like my wire wheels. Now I've seen early TR's with body color wheels, and
I've seen TR4's
>> with Spa white wheels. Any suggestions?
>
>Check out <http://www.vtr.org/TR4A/TR4A-wheels.html>. It's the text of a
>Standard-Triumph Service Bulletin noting that wheels on all Triumphs from
>about March 1963 would be finished in Spa White. I'm not too clear on
>precisely when Triumph reverted to silver disc wheels (maybe the latter
>part of 1968?), but I suspect that most later TR4s and probably just about
>all TR4As had the Spa White discs. The same appears to hold true for
>Heralds, Sports 6s, Spitfires and 2000 sedans in the U.S. during that
>period.
>
>--Andy
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