Hi all-
The company records of which Triumphs went to Group 44 in the 1960s are gone.
All the Jaguar Archives has are records from the 1970s, starting with the
E-type in 1974.
The factory records held by the Heritage Trust will only show the distributor
in the market a given car was shipped to, not the first owner. So cars
destined for USA in 1969 would show as British Leyland Motors Inc.
All I have in my records are some pictures of the car which was driven at
Daytona by Mike Downs.
The GT6 in question was almost certainly a production car taken out of stock
and shipped to Group 44 where it was stripped down and rebuilt as a race car.
I suppose it's possible that Bob Tullius would have a record. Lanky, if my
memory serves, may not have been working at Group 44 in '69.
Mike Cook
----- Original Message -----
From: Herald948@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:03 PM
To: rhlamp@babcock.com; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Group 44 GT-6
In a message dated 5/4/2005 10:14:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Lamp, Randy H"
<rhlamp@babcock.com> writes:
>Good morning. I am trying to authenticate a Triumph GT-6 MKII ,as the
>one prepared by Group 44 in 1969 and which won the E production
>national champion ship that year at Daytona.
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>Does anyone know of a way to trace the manufactures serial number of a
>specific car ,to try and find out who the original owner might have
>been. The car has had several owners over the years since ,and other
>than word of mouth ,I have not been able to figure out how to verify
>that it is the real car.
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One possibility is to contact the Heritage Motor Centre in the UK
<http://www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/archive/certificate/default.htm>. They
hold production records and, for around $50, can provide original build
specification and (usually) destination of the car. If Triumph had arranged
for this particular car to have been sold/shipped directly to Group 44, it
might indicate that in the records.
Otherwise, maybe Mike Cook would know if there are any records of Group 44
around and accessible?
--Andy Mace
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