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Triumph TR3 - Searching for LUCAS Dist. Cap

In my continuing effort to complete the originality of my early TR3A , I am looking for an original "LUCAS" distributor cap.

Looking at the top of the distributor cap with the 5 wires pointing downward, the raised lettering for the word "LUCAS" is readable at the top rear - arched from left to right. And below this, in a straight line (also raised) are the words "Made in England".

I have several like this where the words are upside down. These are not Triumph originals. They came from various MG's where the distributor comes out the engine block lower down and the wires aim up to the sparking plugs. Heaven forbid ! I can't have an MG part on my TR.

If anyone has one exactly as described for sale, contact me and include the cost.

Don Elliott - I lost a point last summer in the TRA Nat'l Concours because of this and the beady eyes of a bright TR Concours judge.
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Don Elliott

Don I will look through my boxes of spares. If I have one it will be used but it's yours.
B. Towne

Don I just had a look in the Moss cat. and they advertise part # 151-740 Distributor cap (Lucas). Is this not the one? Anything else you are having trouble finding? Brian
B. Towne

Thank you Brian for your input. This is the only part I'm looking for. I called Moss and they don't have the one you mentioned in stock.

So I'll just keep looking. It's not like I can't drive. It's just that I may lose another point in the TRA concours. I've driven "TRusty" like this with very few problems for over 78,000 miles in the last 14 summers.

Don Elliott, Original Owner, Looking for an Original Part for my 1958 TR3A. can't figure out when I changed the original one during the last 46 years.
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Don Elliott

I have looked at the 2 I have here at the house, and they're both upside down LUCAS. I have 2 or 3 more to look at nearby, maybe tomorrow. There must be one somewhere. Don't think I have seen one before, but I never knew they existed, so never thought about it. Would be nice to have it upright, wouldn't it? Are they brown bakelite-like material?
Tom

Don:
I knew I had an extra in my spare parts bins and I recall it being brown and old looking w/ raised letters.
But alas, it's an upside-down MG type. Yikes!

If I see one anywhere, I'll let you know...
Mike
Mike Gambordella

Hi Don I knew I had one somewhere. It's on my 2. When is your next TRA concours. I would be very happy to lend it to you until another surfaces. I have a spare of the other style and I don't run concours but maybe soneday. I could send it to you next week. let me know. Brian
B. Towne

Here it is, Don!! Amazing but true. Now I want it, too.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6763&item=2479289556
Tom

Hey Don...!

Better get yer bid in.
Tom

Thanks all for your input. I couldn't reply as I just spent 2 weeks in England. A Brit (who lives in So. France) shipped me just what I needed to my London address and now it is on my TR.

Don Elliott
Don Elliott

This thread was discussed between 15/05/2004 and 03/06/2004

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