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Re: Another "new" GT6

To: "Dave" <KC3565L@sprintmail.com>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Re: Another "new" GT6
From: "ptegler@cablespeed" <ptegler@cablespeed.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:25:59 -0500
http://www.teglerizer.com/triumphstuff/spit_and_gt6_specs.htm
and now contains a section by John Kipping himself, adding
many other numbers and ranges.

Paul Tegler
ptegler@cablespeed.com
www.teglerizer.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave" <KC3565L@sprintmail.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 4:52 PM
Subject: Another "new" GT6


> Another Triumph just followed me home.  That makes 3, one of which 
> actually runs.  This one is a GT6 Mk3, built January 1973 according 
> to the commission plate.  Originally Sienna Brown, now sort of a 
> faded gunmetal grey.  Battery box is rusted out, passenger side 
> floor filled with rusty muck that used to be the carpet, but I 
> couldn't see light through the floor so it may be OK.  Sills looked 
> OK and it doesn't seem to be sagging in the middle.  
> 
> Commission number KF21857, body 22110KF (close enough), and engine 
> number is KD53420E.  The commission number is right for a 1973 US 
> car, but the engine number doesn't look right to me.  A 1973 swing 
> spring car should have had the low compression smogged engine.  Can 
> anybody out there cross reference that engine number and tell me what 
> it is out of?  I am guessing it's a GT6 Plus.  At least I hope it is.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Dave

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