A Triumph Stag. Who cares if they were carp, they looked stunning, and sounded even better. Still do on both counts actually.
One of the few BL products of the 70's I actually would love to own one day.
Cheers
DP
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A Triumph Stag. Who cares if they were carp they looked stunning and sounded even better. Still do on both counts actually.
Cant argue that one. The stag has real classic purity in shape.
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Austin Maxi 1750 HL, red, YBE381K.
Well, at least it had five gears (when you could find them - and none of them seemed quite right for what you needed...)
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1977.......14 years old.......my mother had an 'F' reg S type Jag.......which i was allowed to park.
She meant reverse it from the back of the house and drive it into the garage.
I meant reverse it down the drive, around two corners ....and then drive back up rallycross style, drifting it across the chippings, before straightening it up and then doing the 'width restriction' (garage doors) and seeing if you had the bottle to leave your braking until the concrete garage floor, rather than the chippings outside. It meant skidding of course and you had to stop before the pile of logs at the back of the garage.....
Got caught of course.....and banned.......someone using the public footpath that shared the bottom part of the drive moaned....ramblers, no humour....:-)
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Damn hooligans, spoiling my rambles, should be strung up......
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LandRover Series II, 1961. Then swapped it for a Series III V8, 1972.
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2 Litre MkIII Cortina GL Estate in metallic purple. My first company car.
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Renault 16, my first company car, column change, great ride on the motorway, comfy seats and 3 year rust guarantee (guaranteed to have it within 3 years). I dont think I'll even start to describe the sorts of clothes.
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1977... I was 39, and somewhere between my Singer Vogue estate, rather knackered after two stints as a minicab, eventually stolen although God knows why they bothered, and VW 411 LSE Variant, weak bottom end like all VW flat fours bigger than 1300cc... Got that one from Aircool in Highbury, accompanied by then very small daughter who really wanted the red Porsche 356. So did I of course, but unfortunately I could understand my own arguments about practicality, unlike the nipper.
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I was only 5 in 1977, Dad had a Mk3 Cortina, a 1600GL in yellow with black vinyl roof. Must have been one of the last Mk3's. Used to spend every opportunity round the car, "helping" him clean it, check fluids, etc. I remember black vinyl seats on a hot day. I was allowed in the front seat but had to wear the seat belt.
I must have been a nuisance passenger, obsessed with cars, I was always telling Dad to overtake people.
One of my favourite journeys was occasional trips over the "tummy turnovers"; a road near Spinkhill, Derbyshire with a series of big dips and crests. Driven at just the right speed, not too fast, it gives that negative-g feeling in your stomach. I used to pester for another go, then another, then another.. (what a pain!).
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Triumph 2.5PI - rebuilt engine. Maunal with o/d = 7 forward gears (rather better than most cars now:-)
Went like stink.
Rusty but comfortable...except rear driveshaft splines used to lock in hard cornering, then when they unlocked the trailing arm rear suspension would swing sideways : especially in the wet...
madf
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30yrs ago i was driving a Triumph 2500s, beautiful car, top half mettallic cobalt blue, then a 1" chrome-edged/ black leather insert pinstripe from nose to tail, lower half mettallic silver, with black sills, valances to finish it off, on Mag-alloy 5 spoke wheels, tinted green glass all round, (slightly lighter on wingscreen, but still fully tinted). treasure to own and drive, got wrote off by a dust-cart reversing into it, and squeezing it into a wall, was heartbroken at the time!.
The stag mentioned above was just a shrunken version of this car, but for some reason they could never get the stag engines to last, it was almost a "mandatory" upgrade if you owned one to put a Rover v8 into them.
Billy
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Would that 2500s been the PI one ? Father of girlfriend had one of these....a classy motor especially after he got rid of a truly dreadful Allegro 1750SS when he bought it....should have stayed with her, she runs an old shape 330 coupe now.....(joke dear if you read this !)
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The 2500s was Stromberg equipped and iirc 125bhp. The PI had Lucas mechanical fuel injection: mine had 150bhpo - later ones had 125 .
Both faster and far smoother than the opposition Rover 2000 .. (a marketing success not followed up by Rover).
madf
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I actually had a 2.5PI before the 2500s, the PI was absolute lightning to drive compared to most other cars around at the time. I was a huge Triumph fan in my youth, passed my test in a "Sprite-engined" Herald, progressed to the 2ltr Vitesse, followed that with the 2000mk1, then 2000mk2 TC, then 2.5PI and finally the 2500s.
Remember being very unhappy when they gave up making them, so i turned my alliegience (spelling?) to Vauxhalls for many years. Still think to this day, that Triumphs should have remained in production and been developed, they truly were worthy of the term "classics".
Billy
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and don't forget the TR6 of the era, everything a Sports Car should be. makes an MX5 look a bit of an apology :-O
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and don't forget the TR6 of the era everything a Sports Car should be.
Meaty and solid but not all that quick you mean PU? :o)
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At the same time as I had the Capri, mentioned earlier, the guy I worked with, had a Jersey imported TR4A IRS - K plate, but was a 1967(IIRC). He later swaped this in, for a Sunbeam Tiger, which later got sold on & fire damaged & then rebuilt - wonder if it still exists?
Must check my old foto albums, to see If I've got the reg.
Those were the days!!
VB
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I too had a 2.5 PI In the early 80's it certainly could shift for it's time.... It was also hady if you had shares in Exxon too, she certainly had a drink problem
If the stag had the rover V8 fitted from the start, (Internal BL politics & lack of production capacity prevented this) it probably would have been one of the greates british cars of the 70's now best remembered as a underdeveloped joke
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Not quite sure but was either Mk111 Zodiac Exec or Nigel Mansells Mom's Daf 44 estate. - it was around the time of 15% mortgage rate and fuel crisis so funds became really tight - how I wish for those 15% rates again as I am now an investor.
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And me dxp.....:-(
The Triumph mentioned was an estate, on very beautiful alloys... a true class act.
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1977. That was a Mk1 Mexico in Sebring Red
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>>the "tummy turnovers";>>
As kids we used to call them tummy drops.
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2 Litre MkIII Cortina GL Estate in metallic purple. My first company car.
XL, not GL surely?
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I'd have been practising for my test in my father's A40. I drove the diesel Fergie on my own though....
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