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I'm pretty sure you have posted that before. You do have a knack for finding strange things.

have I?

TerryG wrote:SHOCK news, Triumph dollies are available in colours other than orange!

Yeah, most of the later ones are Gusset Brown just like the specimen in the link. Not as classy a brown as Sienna or Maple, terribly infra-dig don'tcha know!

rich. wrote:have I?

The answer is yes, now what was the question again?

JPB wrote:

TerryG wrote:SHOCK news, Triumph dollies are available in colours other than orange!

Yeah, most of the later ones are Gusset Brown just like the specimen in the link. Not as classy a brown as Sienna or Maple, terribly infra-dig don'tcha know!

That looks carmine red not brown to me, like a very dark orange

You're more than likely right, Rob. I have trouble with telling one from the other. Amazingly, none of the electrical work I've done on various cars over the years has resulted in death by burning. On the other hand, Carmine usually looks like this:



Or like this one, with the usual front indicator issue:


(How do so may people do that? It's actually harder to get them on that way)!

JPB wrote:
(How do so may people do that? It's actually harder to get them on that way)!

Perhaps it's a mirror image seeing as the Triumph badge is on the wrong side too

mach1rob wrote: Perhaps it's a mirror image seeing as the Triumph badge is on the wrong side too

What really scares me is that I had to think about the above words for a good three minutes!

You may well laugh, that horribly mutilated example has been on before, no takers even in a country with quite a large Matra following.

no takers for the ferarri either?

If the seller would accept the (checks pockets) £2.17 and a Tesco receipt for screen wash in exchange for his Ferrari, I would more than happily arrange transport for it