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RE: Differences between early T160 and Late T160
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Posted by Kilroy (NZ)   on Friday, September 14, 2018 at 16:21
- in reply to: Differences between early T160 and Late T160 posted by AllenGriffiths on Friday, September 14, 2018 at 00:00
So which year was "XK" actually built.?
Obviously one of the earliest machines by numerical order..
Thanks.
Don't worry - you answered this elsewhere.. :)
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Hi Kilroy,
The XK I have has 3 numbers higher than a bike I saw in the UK with AK0021X so I assume it was built the last day of Dec 1974.
Just thought the table I produced my help some T160 owners/restorers like myself with parts identity, not sure?
Best regards, Allen. Yes - well done. There is always more to understand.
So now I see that there may be low number XK bikes from Dec 74, and higher number XK bikes from Dec 75.?
I wonder why they bothered calling it "Year of manufacture" in the workshop manual..
:) Hi Kilroy,
Triumph were a stange company with standards and records.
XK00101 was built middle of November '74 so it should have been a PK but the T150V had this and they new that most were to be exported so they would arrive from December onwards.
The last of the "1975" T160's were in the middle of October NK around NK066XX, where they changed to NN, then to PN, XN, AN, BN,and finally CN0721X so these should have been called 1976 models but officially were not, it took almost 6 months to produce the final 600 machines!
Best regards, Allen. |
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