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Re: TR6 radio/important find

To: thomasb@post.queensu.ca
Subject: Re: TR6 radio/important find
From: tr6guy@juno.com (Joseph J Burlein)
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:59:53 -0400
Cc: peb3@cornell.edu, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
My 1972 TR-6 had that same arrangement when I got the car.  The speaker
was hanging in the passenger comparment screwed into the horizontal sheet
metal in front of the firewall.  (Looked like it had been there for
twenty years)  I always thought it was an aftermarket thing done by the
PO.

Joe Burlein
1972 tr-6

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:39:19 -0400 "Brian S. Thomas"
<thomasb@post.queensu.ca> writes:
>
>At 11:20 AM 1998/10/21 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>When I bought my car, the radio in it (the one recently found) had 
>no
>>speaker connected to it. In addition, the car had the early "kidney 
>pads"
>>that have no speaker cut-outs. These are correct for the car, since 
>the
>>monaural radio would have no use for two speakers. I believe that 
>the
>>speaker was in some sort of enclosure suspended in the passenger 
>side
>>footwell, as there are the vestiges of this arrangement still 
>present
>>(screw holes and bracket).
>>
>>--Phil
>>
>
>Hi Phil:
>
>What you describe above is what I have in our 1967 TR4A.  The speaker 
>is
>enclosed in quite an elaborate aluminium "box" mounted as you 
>describe.
>These are tough to find!  Was this "box" correct for early TR6s?  
>Don't know!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Brian
>
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