TR2/3/3A TR3 Taillite Plinths

[BOXoROCKS]

Thought you guys might like to see these,not many around.They were used on transition cars in the early TR3 period,(can't remember just when)when they hadn't used up the supply of early rear aprons. They are cast aluminum and fit with a gasket to the back of the apron. The car I am doing was apple green originally. One is stripped of paint on the red carpet,one isn't

 

[TR3driver]

Thanks for the photos, BOXofROCKS. I believe that would actually be late TR3, before the introduction of the TR3A. Earlier TR3s did not have separate turn lamps in the rear.

BTW, it would be nice if you let us know your name. I feel silly saving those photos on my hard drive attributed only to BOXofROCKS /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

 

[BOXoROCKS]

....yup thats what I meant,I am getting old and forget what day it is. I am Wyatt,and yes I should change that moniker, but sometimes it's so right.

Anyway...have you ever seen them before? They are not even listed in ANY of the catalogs.

 

[TR3driver]

Thanks, Wyatt.

I have seen the plinths before, once at a show. Don't know of any catalogs showing them though, and even Bill Piggott seems not to know of them. Reading between the lines, though, I'd guess they were only fitted to cars for certain markets (including the USA but not the UK) between TS15601 (when Bill says certain markets started getting the independant turn lamps) and TS16743 (when Bill says the rear pressing changed).

That's probably less than 800 cars so fitted.

 

[Andrew Mace]

Way cool, Wyatt! No, I'd never seen them before, at least not that I noticed. (I've seen a lot of cars over the years and might have walked right by a car so equipped.

No photo handy, but I've a pair of similar type items for a Herald bonnet. The first Heralds used a wide front side/flasher lamp. At some point, they changed to a much narrower lamp (same as some E-type Jags and 1970 Spitfires and GT6s )used for a backup lamp...and then they changed back again. At some point yet later on, Triumph apparently stopped supplying bonnets or pieces thereof for the small side/flasher lamp, but they did stamp out a bolt-on plinth to cover the big hole and allow mounting the small lamp.

Apparently they did the same thing, sometimes at the factory, on the early Mk3 Spitfire to allow that car's side/flasher lamp to be fitted for a bonnet originally with the two holes for the "beehive" style front lamps. I've seen a couple photos of those.

 

[Harry_Ward]

I agree thanks for the photos Wyatt. Never saw em before. One of the Po's of my car installed back up lights and used a plinth made up of some type of a phenolic block using the front clear glass side lamp indicator lenses with ring. Looks kinda OK but the phenolic block is deteriorating and I can't find a correct replacement. Since I don't feel like fillin in the holes he made I've been thinking of making a replacement block out of wood.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

My '57 TR3 had 'em - TS16102.

 

[gsalt57tr3]

My TR3 has them, TS16434

 

[BOXoROCKS]

Fame is ever so fleeting on the forum.

Harry, those kinda look like the plinths off a GT-6

 

[Geo Hahn]

Dang -- you read so much, try to remember so much, and along comes something you've never heard of or seen before.

Finally, a TR3 part worthy of the (overused) eBay label of 'RARE!'. Definitely worth a 'L@@K'.

 

[TR3driver]

Harry, those kinda look like the plinths off a GT-6

Do you mean P/N 613627 ? TRF has them listed for $16.

 

[Harry_Ward]

Thanks Guys - I'll give TRF a look see.