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Re: TR4 boot lid lettering

To: ArthurK101@aol.com
Subject: Re: TR4 boot lid lettering
From: "Brad Kahler" <Brad.Kahler@141.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:49:05 -0500
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Art,

I may have missed this answer so I'm going to ask, is there any 
consensus as to when the TR4 logo was finally installed on the boot 
lid at the factory?  

Inquiring minds want to know<g>

> 
> Joe, thanks.  We agree.  This thread keeps popping up - I guess that we
> must remember that new folks keep coming onto the list.  Cheers.
> 
> Art
> 
> In a message dated 98-09-15 21:22:12 EDT, joeiv@concentric.net writes:
> 
> > ArthurK101@aol.com wrote:
> >  >
> >  > I believe I've been misquoted.  We had a thread going awhile back
> >  > about 
> > the
> >  > markings on the TR4 boot lid.  The answer was that very early TR4's
> >  > had
> NO
> >  > "TR4" chrome lettering.  The "TR4" letters did become standard pretty
> >  > 
> > early,
> >  > (we never did determine exactly when that occurred however.  The
> >  > "TR4" 
> > marking
> >  > was put on at the factory.  Cheers.
> >  >
> >  > Art Kelly
> 
> 
> >  Art,
> >   I was involved in that thread.  I have a road test of an early  TR4 in
> >   a 
> > Road and Track
> >  magazine (Feb. '62), and the pictures showed no TR4 lettering  on the
> >  boot 
> > lid; just the
> >  T R I U M P H letters accross the lid.
> >  
> >                                     JOE IV
> >                                     TR 250
> >                                     WALLINGFORD, CT. USA
> >  



Brad  (Lincoln Nebraska 402-464-1502)

1964 Spitfire4           BFC25720L
1966 TR4A               CT72398L (Now a parts car)
196? TR4                CT????L (Chassis 0281CT, Engine CT405E)
1951 Dodge Truck    82217766  B-3-B-108 (Spring shackle problems)

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