- 1. Re: kit cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 07:48:40 -0600 (CST)
- Well... looking to build a TR4 based got m into Triumphs in the first place... Specifcally the Hunter (formerly known as the Hathaway) kit car... The have since gone away (I dunno where). You might l
- /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg00001.html (8,089 bytes)
- 2. kit cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 10:21:06 -0600 (CST)
- Does anyone out there have any information concerning kit cars that would fit on an lbc frame? I am thinking specifically of tr-4 and possibly tr-6. I had even thought of comming up with a home made
- /html/triumphs/1997-11/msg01753.html (6,925 bytes)
- 3. Re: kit cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 10:15:24 -0800 (PST)
- Weren't TVR available in kit form? Perhaps you can adapt one of their bodies to your frame. Or excercise your artistic licence and create a car out of fiberglass... Then, there's also Michelotti's pr
- /html/triumphs/1997-11/msg01757.html (7,522 bytes)
- 4. Re: kit cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 10:18:29 -0800
- Let me expand Gary's original question. Add to that the Spitgire/GT6 Frame as well. I had an idea of doing such a project earlier, but could not find any kits that comply. I'm anxious to hear if any
- /html/triumphs/1997-11/msg01758.html (7,806 bytes)
- 5. Re: kit cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:42:45 +0000
- Gary: I was reading up on the Factory Five Racing Cobra replica in "Kit Car" a while back. There's a company offering a "birdcage" Maseratti body for a TR6 chassis. The featured car also had a 302 Fo
- /html/triumphs/1997-11/msg01769.html (7,715 bytes)
- 6. Re: kit cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 12:18:25 +0000 (GMT)
- There are quite a few models available here in the U.K, if you read the specials register bit in the T.S.S.C mag you can see some. Sad thing is that you end up losing a perfectly decent REAL sports
- /html/triumphs/1997-11/msg01779.html (7,061 bytes)
- 7. Re: kit cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 09:34:15 -0800
- Johnny, The thought wasn't to break up a perfectly good sports car, but to use the left over parts from a broken up one that wasn't so "perfectly good". I ended up with a couple of good frames and ru
- /html/triumphs/1997-11/msg01787.html (8,058 bytes)
- 8. Re: kit cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 18:10:37 -0500
- Malcolm - Where can I find a picture of this prototype? I'm a big fan of Michelotti's work. In fact I'm presently in the middle of buying a production version of this masterpiece (a TR250, though as
- /html/triumphs/1997-11/msg01790.html (7,198 bytes)
- 9. Re: kit cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 15:16:04 -0800 (PST)
- The prototype was a TR3 chassis with what looks like a cross between the Herald and the TR4 on it. The caption was "Michelotti's first TR essay" (or words to that effect) The book that I saw it in wa
- /html/triumphs/1997-11/msg01791.html (7,416 bytes)
- 10. Kit Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 19:46:17 -0500
- Fellow Bolt Busters... Saw this ad in the SF paper: 62 TR3 Kit Car Low miles runs good needs work 415-661-8425. Besides the fact that somebody may have an interest in this car, does anyone remember w
- /html/triumphs/1996-11/msg00407.html (6,761 bytes)
- 11. Re: Kit Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 09:02:07 -0500
- Nick, Also on TR frames at one time or another were the Jamaican, the Ambro (currently available!), and a really pretty Morgan-ish roadster called first the Hathaway and then the Hunter. While I'm on
- /html/triumphs/1996-11/msg00421.html (7,662 bytes)
- 12. Re: Kit Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 18:58:29 -0800
- If I recall (going back thirty years now), a couple of the old Kellison kits were adaptable to TR frames. -- My other Triumph doesn't run, either....
- /html/triumphs/1996-11/msg00424.html (7,132 bytes)
- 13. Re: Kit Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 00:04:29 -0500
- << << Keep those engine/head numbers comin Nick in Nor Cal >> I think I've missed something. What engine/head numbers are you interested in? And why? Thanks, Scott in Indiana TRMGAFUN@AOL.COM >> Scot
- /html/triumphs/1996-11/msg00445.html (7,095 bytes)
- 14. Re: Kit Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 08:13:57 -0600 (CST)
- The another Triumph based kit car would be the Devin (there are several still vintage racing, here in the midwest... Don't forget the Hathaway/Hunter, a kind of Morgan look alike that also used Trium
- /html/triumphs/1996-11/msg00459.html (7,783 bytes)
- 15. re: Kit Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:02:07 -0700 (MST)
- Just a note on the Tornado - the local LBC mechanic here in Albuquerque has one. It is a swoopy looking fiberglass body on a TR3 frame. Apparently the designer of the body forgot to measure the heigh
- /html/triumphs/1996-11/msg00598.html (7,235 bytes)
- 16. re: Kit Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:05:25 -0600 (CST)
- I know of their rarity. Bill Dentinger and Bob Wismer share the Tornado that was reputed to have won at Sebring many moons ago. Dentinger and Wismer did a beautiful restoration on the car and have be
- /html/triumphs/1996-11/msg00603.html (7,810 bytes)
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