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Re: TR3 on Car and Driver TV

To: Robert Kamholtz <thunderbolt@techheadnet.com>
Subject: Re: TR3 on Car and Driver TV
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:52:02 -0500 (EST)
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Robert Kamholtz wrote:

> 
> Hello All:
> Also watched the show on TR3. Know one has said anything about the motor
> being fron a tractor. I beleave it was used in the 1948 & 49 Triumph 2000.
> Could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time.

Hmmm, one of these days I'll write this all down so I don't forget 
myself. :-) It was pretty much Standard Vanguard, then adapted for 
the Ferguson tractor, then Vanguard engine for the Renown and Roadster 
(and used by Morgan), then developed for the TR2 (and then used also by 
Morgan and others).

--Andy

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