> G'day, Listers. Yesterday evening I happened to be glancing at my copy of
> Richard Newton's Illustrated Triumph Buyer's Guide, first Edition,
regarding
> the TR6. On page 94, I find the sentence: "You just can't ignore a TR6.
> It'll leak oil in your drive. The electrics will have their off-days
> (especially if you own a late '76, which finally received the fuel
injection
> its European cousins had had for a decade)."
>
> Is there something he knows that I don't? Just WHERE are these factory
1976
> TR6s with PI? Certainly not in Canada. Mine is a May 3/76 vintage,
according
> to my BMIHT certificate. Peter Z - how about your car? There's not many
> later than yours? Did Richard Newton correct this sentence in his second
> edition?
I think that that sentence/error was removed in the second edition and
replaced with one that says all post '74 cars had overdrive. It is
unfortunate that he didn't do more/better homework.
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