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Re: Triumph italia

To: "Johnny Storm:- International Racing car driver" <hiu06f@bangor.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Triumph italia
From: Ken Streeter <streeter@sanders.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 07:43:30 -0400
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Organization: Lockheed Sanders, Inc.
References: <Pine.WNT.3.96.970922114411.-414315H-100000@macr114.bangor.ac.uk>
> Dear List, I need some help from the wealth of triumph knowledge
> this list holds. I am currently in posession of an italia 2000
> that i would like to restore. unfortunately in it's derilict
> state it had a tree of a protected species grow up through the
> bottom of it. What I need is some proof of the cars rarity
> before the authorities will let me fell the tree. thankyou
> very much.

I don't know if this will help you, but the VTR WWW pages
on the Italia (by VTR Italia Vehicle Consultant, Jamie Palmer)
list that only 297 TR-3A/B chassis were delivered to Italy
to be made into Italias.

Quoting from http://www.vtr.org/Italia/Italia-production.html:


  At best, determining commission numbers and production
  figures of Italias is a guessing game. Here are the facts
  we do know:

    There were 297 TR-3A/B chassis delivered to Italy to be
    made into Italias. 

    One of the first chassis numbers is TS51639LCO - this is
    the vehicle Standard-Triumph tested in early 1960. 

    The last 30 cars were made on TSF501 through TSF530,
    the last 30 TR-3B first series chassis. 

    All cars had both the TR-3A/B commission plate and a
    "Vignale number"; they were NOT kept in chassis order
    when bodied. 

    Numerous changes were made car-to-car! 

--ken
VTR WWW Maintainer -- http://www.vtr.org

PS:  I apologize if anybody found the VTR WWW pages out of
service over the weekend -- apparently maintenance personnel
bumped the power strip in my office, and the machine never
rebooted...
                                                              
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