I believe what he ment was in the TR range. Yes there were onther Triumphs
Valencia Blue . But in the TR series it was on some late TR-4a's and 250's
only.
Kevin Andrews
250's
CD2908LO
CD7766L
----- Original Message -----
From: John Macartney <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
To: <RGOrrgeo@netscape.net>
Cc: Triumph Mailing List <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 8:25 AM
Subject: Valencia Blue on TR's
>
> Rodney Orr wrote:
>
> Francis,
> Sorry, no TR4 pictures, but Bill Piggott's book "Original Triumph
> TR4/4A/5/6" has quite a few pictures of a Valencia blue TR250. They're in
> the updated, 1998, edition of the book. He notes that it was
> "...principally a TR5/250 colour, was used only a few late TR4As, probably
> only in the last three months".
>
> With the greatest respect to Bill Piggot, his statement is far from true.
Valencia Blue
> was available and used across the whole Triumph range. It was not
restricted just to
> sports cars. Production cutover to TR was certainly late in the TR4A life.
>
> Jonmac
>
> Current Book: IN THE SHADOW OF MY FATHER
http://www.toolbox.ndirect.co.uk/triumphbook
> New Book: THE CROCUS AND A CORNFLOWER
http://www.toolbox.ndirect.co.uk/crocus
> The SLOW progress with 'Canley Girl': http://www.toolbox.ndirect.co.uk/
> Triumph Charity Run in 2000 (in UK):
http://www.toolbox.ndirect.co.uk/stories/
>
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