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Re: TR4 carpeting

To: Tony Rhodes <ARhodes@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: TR4 carpeting
From: Michael Ferguson <fergie@ntplx.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 22:01:40 -0800
Cc: Brad.Kahler@141.com, TR <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Organization: Could be better...
References: <199811202149_MC2-6102-1611@compuserve.com>
Tony Rhodes wrote:
> 
> Message text written by INTERNET:Brad.Kahler@141.com
> >Tony, to be honest with you I don't know.   I have a hunch that it would
> be
> >carpeting that matched the rest of the interior but thats pure guess work.
> 
> >All I know for sure is what Art Kelly has said.  Which is all TR4's had
> the
> >same charcoal grey loop carpeting.  In Bill Piggotts first book there is a
> 
> >picture of a TR4A with blue seats and blue carpeting and he calls the
> color
> >Midnight Blue.  So I feel a little better about saying the carpeting
> matched
> >the rest of the interior.<
> 
> Well I know the crash pads were ALWAYS black.  I have also heard that
> the carpet was always one color.  I had thought that color was black.  I DO
> have Piggot's book (hope to get the new one for xmas).  I know he said that
> the blue interior in that picture was almost correct, but he diid not refer
> to the
> carpeting itself, and it is hard to tell the actual color.  Is the carpet
> some blue
> with a brighter edging?
> 
> I do think that the carpet OUGHT to be a similar color to the seats, rather
> than
> always some shade of black/gray.
> 
> -Tony

Seems to me, if nobody knows what's "correct", then ANYTHING's correct.
Well, pink may be stretching it, but I would think upholstery-matching
carpet would be perfectly acceptable.
-- 
Michael Ferguson
Vernon CT

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