On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Andrew Mace wrote:
>
> Now, the car would have been an ambitious, but probably doable,
> restoration project. Then, it was (sorry) junk! But bits of the car live
> on today (how's that dashboard, Greg P?).
Primered and hanging in my garage, Mr. Mace... It will go into the
`4 this winter.
The Green Man, my`4 is something of a bitsa car... The tub came from
a TR4a from california (whose frame and running gear went to a
turnkey kit car, a "Hunter"). My `4 was a parts car that in my
ignorance about these things at the time, I restored.
The only original outer panel is the bonnet. Lucky for me the
frame, etc. was in pretty good shape.
My opinion of the dearth of `4s is that they were much more
utilitarian than the 3's. They got used up... Driven til they fell,
apart and/or canibalised to update a `3 (though that sounds a bit
specious for the general), and used in kit cars.
I don't think they had the "novelty" of the TR3s (looks), or the
"power" of the TR6, which also benefitted by the sobriquet "last
of the hairy-chested sports cars", which prompted people to hang
on to them.
I think the early TR4 only had a run of ~49,000, The TR4a I don't
know how many were made. The TR6 I think had production of
somewhere around 147,000 considerably more than I think both The
TR4 or `4A I'm not including the TR250 because the production
numbers were so low.
gpetrola@prairienet.org 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
"That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois
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