>===== Original Message From "Roger Elliott" <relliott@cjnetworks.com> =====
>The finger pulls were used in TR4's , but by the time of the TR250 they
>were removed. This was part of the make the interior of the car safer
>campaign. They (U.S. regulations) didn't want passengers to impale their
>foreheads on the finger pulls. This is about the time that toggle switches
>and interior door pulls got removed and padding got added to the steering
>wheels.
>
Further to my views already outlined I seem to recall that on certain PI
models instead of that chrome finger there was somoe squarish rubber type
thing that could be used as a pull, not fitted to mine but could be that my
memory fails anyway?
............Gernot von Hoegen................
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