[TR] Wing or Side Fender Vents

[pethier at comcast.net]

John Sprinzel told me that they got the press operators to come in on a
Saturday and recalibrate the presses.  They made 6 sets of panels.  John said
they built four cars and "threw the other two sets in the van".  I hear now
that there were five cars.  If so, perhaps they built another car later out of
the spares.  John told me about this when he was at the autocross for the
(2005?) Rendezvous in Grand Rapids Minnesota and came over to look at my TR4.
Nice guy, who now lives in Maui and spends his time windsurfing.

Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
1979 Caterham 7
1994 Miata C-package
2004 Suburban 8.1
2007 Saturn Ion 3 2.4
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----- "Randy&Val DeRuiter" <deruiterville at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: "Randy&Val DeRuiter" <deruiterville at hotmail.com>
> To: pethier at comcast.net
> Cc: gsfuqua1 at aol.com, "Triumph List" <triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:56:17 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: RE: [TR] Wing or Side Fender Vents
>
> Yes,B I believe a lot of of the panels are aluminum.B  Its owned by
> IanB CornishB - he politely allowed me to drool all over the car when he
> brought it to the Brooklands Standard Triumph Show in 2007.B  One of
> the interesting small differences on the rally cars were the rear boot
> hinges were longer to lessens the strain on the aluminum lid.
> B 
> Various pictures of that show are here along with a couple more of
> 4VC.B  It was a great day to look at some nice Trumphs:
> http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/deruiterville/Brooklands%202007/
> B 
> Randy
> B 
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> B 
> >
> > Is that one of the aluminum-body cars John Sprinzel was telling me
> about?
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