Cool. Any convertibles in that mix in 79 that were sent to dealers?
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> On Jan 6, 2015, at 15:31, Jack Mc <McGaheyRx@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, there were such animals and they are very well documented. There is a
> TWOA member who maintains a list of all known surviving coupes and a wealth
> of information is available.
>
> Generally, and off the top of my head, there were 2 production runs of
> preproduction coupes - 1 small run in early 1977 with VINs ACNX - ACNXX, and
> another larger run later in 1977 with VINs ACN10xx - ACN1xxx.
> Ted Schumacher owns ACN1 and brought it to the 2014 VTR Convention - his son
> (I think) has ACN2 and I have ACN3 and ACN1049. I have a lot of documentation
> that came with ACN3 including a letter that lists a number of preproduction
> coupes sold by Triumph in 1980 - i.e. a number of preproduction coupes were
> held by the company for a couple of years and never went to dealers. ACN1049
> was originally sold by a dealer in Birmingham. I don't think any of the ACN
> cars originally had "TR8" on them anywhere. I believe there were other TR8
> coupes made a bit later with prefix TCN but I don't think those were
> considered "pre-production"
>
> Cheers,
> Jack Mc
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Jan 6, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Joe Burlein <floridatr6@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does anyone have an "official" information about pre production TR8
>> convertibles? Were there really such animals? I know they had coupes but I
>> haven't heard about a "dealer only" version for sales demos until recently.
>> Curious if it is true and if so if there is any serial number info
>> available.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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