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1. Spats (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:58:13 EST
<PRE>I see Spats (fender skirts) for a TR3 on E-bay (#2400399643). Does anyone have these on their car? The book I have says they were a performance option, but none were sold. How are these held on?
/html/triumphs/2003-01/msg00625.html (6,711 bytes)

2. Re: Spats (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:33:56 EST
Presumably you're too young to have seen many late 1940s and 1950s American cars on which "skirts" abounded. The factory skirts had a somewhat pointed (according to the picture in the Spare Parts Cat
/html/triumphs/2003-01/msg00629.html (8,213 bytes)

3. Re: Spats (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 13:38:24 -0500
These "spats" were made by "Al Roth" a Calf. residents hobbiest for many years, I had them on my car way back when, look out of place with the slooping door, if you have a flat on the highway forget
/html/triumphs/2003-01/msg00632.html (7,259 bytes)

4. Re: Spats (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:39:57 -0700
Certainly an unusual period accessory that I would love too see just once on someone else's TR. As much as my rear fenders have been abused & beaten in prior restorations I doubt that their present c
/html/triumphs/2003-01/msg00633.html (7,316 bytes)

5. Re: Spats (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:40:50 -0500
One of our club members (Central PA Triumph Club, Ralph Eriksen) has them on his TR3. He found them in CA and had them restored and then painted to match his TR3. They are very stunning and really of
/html/triumphs/2003-01/msg00650.html (8,558 bytes)

6. Re: Spats (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:46:21 -0600
From <ZoboHerald at aol.com> American Many British cars also had "fender skirts" as the Yanks called them. Jaguar XK-1_0 cars had them. They did not fit if the car had wire wheels as the Rudge cap ex
/html/triumphs/2003-01/msg00656.html (7,581 bytes)

7. Re: Spats (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:51:38 EST
Very true. I briefly owned a Sunbeam-Talbot 90 Mk IIA(?) convertible that had "spats" -- held on with Dzus fasteners, unlike the fitment shown in the TR2/3/3A Spare Parts Catalogue. But those on the
/html/triumphs/2003-01/msg00660.html (7,467 bytes)


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