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Re: [TR] [6pack] Karmann declares bankruptcy

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Subject: Re: [TR] [6pack] Karmann declares bankruptcy
From: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:56:07 -0400 (EDT)
Wayne queried:
> The TR5 in Europe was the TR6 with the PI (petrol
> injection) system. I don't know of any Fuel Injected
> 4A's produced for Europe.

Ummm, I've never been a TR owner except for a brief experience with a defunct 
TR6, but I believe you have something backwards.  As I understand it, the 
2.5liter 6-cyl engine was ready and needed before the TR6 body was ready.  As a 
stopgap Triumph installed that engine into the TR4A.  The European cars got PI, 
but North American cars got twin carbs because Triumph were afraid that 
American drivers would be scared by the lower fuel mileage and that American 
mechanics wouldn't know how to deal with the PI.  The European version was 
named TR5.  To distinguish between the PI version and the twin-carb version the 
N.Am. cars were named TR250.  The body style of both was essentially that of 
TR4A, with the N.Am. versions (at least) generally getting a distinctive stripe 
running across the nose.  Don't know how universal that was.  The TR5/250 was 
produced only for the nominal model year 1968.  The TR6 was introduced in 1969, 
and with the possible exception of emissions control and tri!
m, bumpers, etc. it was the same everywhere.
--
Jim Muller
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