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Re: Information sought on Shell TR-4

To: N197TR4@cs.com
Subject: Re: Information sought on Shell TR-4
From: carco@t-online.de
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 20:39:27 +0100
The last photos of 5VC are here:

http://home.t-online.de/home/carco/home.htm

Tomorrow I get the start number stickers where comes on the doors.
Than the car is complete.

Carsten



N197TR4@cs.com schrieb:

> Great reply Don...S4K was a favorite of mine and I followed it closely. Did
> you run the year that the Volkswagen rolled down the mountain and still
> finished the rallye?...a couple of guys from Minneapolis.
>
> Important Question:   Do you have your outstanding Mid-Ohio video in a format
> useable in UK? I'd like to acquire at least one.
>
> BTW, a small group of folks from the US seem to planning to be in the UK at
> the end of May 2003 for the Triumph Centenary and Jabbeke Tour. Perhaps this
> is an opportunity for the FoT to compare notes. I assume you will be there,
> Don?
>
> Joe Alexander
>
> > The  1964 Shell 4000 TR4 from NY was sent to Germany and restored.
> >
> > There was a big story a year or so ago about how authentic this car really
> > is with Graham Robson (in Triumph World) trying to be the referee.   Neil
> > Revington ( who restored two Shell 4000 TR4s - one for Ian Cornish and one
> > for himself) claims that about 15% of the car is made from the Shell TR4
> > from NY.
> >
> > Do you know who prepared these cars?  They sported Oregon plates while in
> > the North America while in England they had British plates VC3, VC4, VC5 and
> > VC6.  There were 4 cars in the Team, but three ran in the Shell 4000.
> >
> > Did you know that in a museum in England, there is an original axe that is
> > reputed to have belonged to a king about 1000 years ago.  Amazing when you
> > learn afterwards that this original axe has had the handle replaced 5 times.
> > And the head was replaced 4 times - or something like that.  Is it still
> > original ?
> >
> > BTW, I did the 1964 Shell Rally in a Reneault (and finished) and got to see
> > those TR4s.  This was the first time that anyone used alloy wheels (I guess
> > thay may have been Mini-lites) and everyone said they were too fragile and
> > they'd all break before the end of the first night out of Vancouver on the
> > way to Montreal.  It was revolutionary at the time.  In fact one had a flat
> > in a special stage in Saskatchewan (I believe) and ran the rest of the stage
> > on the alloy rim.  Later they put a new tyre in that same rim and it was
> > still round, held air, etc.
> >
> > Don Elliott, 1958 TR3A, Montreal
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Russ Moore" <rem9@sunlink.net>
> > To: <fot@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:25 PM
> > Subject: Information sought on Shell TR-4

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