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/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/iagree.gif Triumph still had the TR4A price-listed in 1968 alongside the TR250, presumably because there were a number of late-production cars still in stock. As to that somewhat convoluted number, I wonder if at some point the car might have had one of those "STC 68" plates on it, put on by some regional distributors to denote a car essentially "retitled" for the next model year. Federal safety and emissions standards started to take effect for the 1968 model year, but there was a "built for sale on or after January 1, 1968" thing going on then, so cars built even 12/31/67 as 1968 models were perfectly legal. (My family was new-car shopping in 1968, and I remember seeing some '68 Ford wagons -- what we were looking at -- with NO front shoulder belts. That was one of the 1968 standards that took effect for most cars as noted above.)
According to information on the VTR web site: CTC 78684 - last TR4A, built July 10, 1967. Not surprising, since it often took 2-3 months for a car produced in Coventry to get to a US dealer, that the last cars would've been "retitled" and sold well into 1968!
According to information on the VTR web site: CTC 78684 - last TR4A, built July 10, 1967. Not surprising, since it often took 2-3 months for a car produced in Coventry to get to a US dealer, that the last cars would've been "retitled" and sold well into 1968!