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Jedi Hopeful
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Just received my TR8 from Colorado Springs Co.
It is a 1981 Argent silver with a Tan interior a/c car. there is a website that breaks down all of the color and int combos for Tr8's and it seems there were only 14 cars produced with this color combo, all were California designation cars. Does anyone else own one of the 14? This car has a Texas decal on the windshield with a 1990 date so it was there at one point of it's life.

Vern Dahnke

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Where did you see this website? Never seen anything that breaks down by color combos. There were a very limited run of 80/81 hibrids that were federal 49 state cars with FI. There were only 400 or so 81s and you could get several more colors in those models, so your number of 14 with that combo sounds plausible. Unlike American muscle cars, nobody seems to break down the production run by the number of cars that were build a certain way. You see Mustang owners all the time telling you that their car was one of only 600 that were built in x year in x color with x motor with ac and radio delete, even though there were 100,000 mustangs built that year. That all seems trivial when there were only 2800 or so TR8s built total over an almost 5 year span.
 
As far as I knew from the guys in the UK going thru the records at BMHIT there were 413 1981 TR8s and of them 13 were automaitcs. All 1981 TR8s went to california standards that were adopted to all 50 states to help make a emission friendly car and of course fuel injected except for the few rare Uk spec 1981 TR8s still had zeniths. Now a break down of colors in production is unknown and even the heritage certificates do not go to that detail cause there are no records.
 
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