>From: "lou" <lmtr4a@ctlnet.com>
>Reply-To: "lou" <lmtr4a@ctlnet.com>
>To: "List" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
>Subject: hand crank your TR
>Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:55:40 -0500
>
>Jeffery:
>
>When Michelotti designed the grill and valance of the TR4 he assumed that
>Triumph would continue to provide radiators with a hole for the crank to
>pass through as they had for the side screen cars. When Triumph built the
>radiators without the holes they assumed Michelotti would see his mistake
>and redesign the grill and valance.
>
>Piggott says that a few of the very early 4s did have a hole in the
>radiator
>for the crank "feature".
It was more than a few... Mine has one and it's CT4852L... My
thinking is the switch over came when they changed the specs or ran
out of TR3 radiators (must have bought them in bulk to get a
really great price). BTW, I have a short bubble bonnet too.
Greg Petrolati
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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