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Re: Chromed windshield frame?

To: DeWetC1@sapo.co.za, tambrose@tir.com, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Chromed windshield frame?
From: Herald948@aol.com
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:49:57 EDT
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
In a message dated 9/6/00 2:22:49 AM EDT, DeWetC1@sapo.co.za writes:

> No , I don't think it will fit , but the Zest or Zoom prototype TR 4 used a
>  Herald Coupe hard top ( AFAIK ) .

Right, Chris. It was the Zest of 1959. That car, though, used the 
narrower-track TR3A chassis and what appears to be a much taller windshield 
glass/frame. It's difficult to tell from the one photo in the 
Langworth/Robson history if that glass is Herald glass or not. But were a 
Herald Coupé roof to be adapted to a TR4, I'm sure it would at least have to 
be "chopped" (in the best American hot rod tradition) and the doorglass of 
the TR4 reshaped at the top and rear edges. I've not measured to see how 
widths compare between the Coupé roof header and the header of a TR4 
windshield frame.

--Andy

Andrew Mace, President and Herald Consultant, The Vintage Triumph Register

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