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Re: one more oddity on the TR3B

To: ZoboHerald@aol.com, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: one more oddity on the TR3B
From: francois wildi <fwildi@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:50:03 -0700 (PDT)
Well,
If this is true, then it's really amazing that my '61 TR3A that has a
very high commission number (I don't quite remember and it's not at
hand, but I think over 80'000) DOES have the cutting and the blanking
plate. Maybe it's worth noting that it is an original RHD car. Still
this way.

Francois

--- ZoboHerald@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/23/2003 1:08:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> fwildi@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> > ...there is a definitive way the tell the TR3B -at
> > least my TR3B- from the mudane TR3A:
> > It is a left-hand drive only TR3! There is no cutting in the
> bulkhead
> > to install the pedal cluster on the Righ-hand side, and
> therefore, no
> > blanking plate either.
> > 
> > I am sure 99.99% of the people did not know. I am sure too that
> > 99.98% do not care.
>  
> Francois, basically this is correct. But the lack of the "cutting
> in the bulkhead...no blanking plate" is also true of the "new body
> tub" introduced at TS60001 (also featuring the raised hood/trunk
> hinge mounts, "flat" rear floor, etc.). So there are two distinct
> "flavors" of the TR3A: TS22014 and later; and TS60001 and later.
> For the most part, TR3Bs closely resemble the TS60001 and later
> cars.
> 
> --Andy Mace


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