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Re: TR7 "design"

To: SpeedSites@aol.com, Triumphs <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: TR7 "design"
From: Douglas Hansen <spitfire4@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 02:18:59 -0400
References: <3d.2a49c99.27291252@aol.com>
from one of my books its says that it was intended to be an MG not a Triumph...
I WISH!
doug

SpeedSites@aol.com wrote:

> Unless I'm mistaken (which is very possible), by the time the TR7 (had one,
> hated it) came down the design pike, most of Triumph was in tatters and the
> BL corp brains were in place.
>
> Also, the designer of the TR7 shape was quoted, as I recall, saying that "It
> was just a sketch... I never really intended them to make THAT car..." I
> think hhad more of an AC3000 look in mind, again this recollection is a few
> years old.
>
> Rod Pyle
> 68 3/4 TR6


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