Great reply Don...S4K was a favorite of mine and I followed it closely. Did
you run the year that the Volkswagen rolled down the mountain and still
finished the rallye?...a couple of guys from Minneapolis.
Important Question: Do you have your outstanding Mid-Ohio video in a format
useable in UK? I'd like to acquire at least one.
BTW, a small group of folks from the US seem to planning to be in the UK at
the end of May 2003 for the Triumph Centenary and Jabbeke Tour. Perhaps this
is an opportunity for the FoT to compare notes. I assume you will be there,
Don?
Joe Alexander
> The 1964 Shell 4000 TR4 from NY was sent to Germany and restored.
>
> There was a big story a year or so ago about how authentic this car really
> is with Graham Robson (in Triumph World) trying to be the referee. Neil
> Revington ( who restored two Shell 4000 TR4s - one for Ian Cornish and one
> for himself) claims that about 15% of the car is made from the Shell TR4
> from NY.
>
> Do you know who prepared these cars? They sported Oregon plates while in
> the North America while in England they had British plates VC3, VC4, VC5 and
> VC6. There were 4 cars in the Team, but three ran in the Shell 4000.
>
> Did you know that in a museum in England, there is an original axe that is
> reputed to have belonged to a king about 1000 years ago. Amazing when you
> learn afterwards that this original axe has had the handle replaced 5 times.
> And the head was replaced 4 times - or something like that. Is it still
> original ?
>
> BTW, I did the 1964 Shell Rally in a Reneault (and finished) and got to see
> those TR4s. This was the first time that anyone used alloy wheels (I guess
> thay may have been Mini-lites) and everyone said they were too fragile and
> they'd all break before the end of the first night out of Vancouver on the
> way to Montreal. It was revolutionary at the time. In fact one had a flat
> in a special stage in Saskatchewan (I believe) and ran the rest of the stage
> on the alloy rim. Later they put a new tyre in that same rim and it was
> still round, held air, etc.
>
> Don Elliott, 1958 TR3A, Montreal
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russ Moore" <rem9@sunlink.net>
> To: <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:25 PM
> Subject: Information sought on Shell TR-4
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