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1 hour ago, Crackers said:

No.

I still don't care.

Want.

 

I'm sure a contemporary Elan (etc, etc) would be a hundred times better car, but it just doesn't make the noise.

Go get your ears sorted, and then properly listen to your Rover.  Much better than a GT6 in so many ways.

 

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2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Have you driven one? I don't like them - and not at that money but I was around these when they were just second hand cars so maybe I'm biased.

So to 'section' you here goes:

They are a 'bitsa' lash-up built by a woefully undercapialised Standard Triumph out of myriad small pressings and rust everywhere.

They creak and groan on the road like an old galleon with loads of scuttle shake.

They have a terrible claustrophobic and cramped driving  position and a cardboard transmission cover.

I'm not sure which suspension set-up this one has but they are all pretty lethal.

They are hot, noisy and not that fast.

The one for sale has a fibreglass bonnet, a failing gearbox (they were never up to much I think it came out of the Standard 10) and non-original wheels.

The Ford Escort and VW Golf came along and made this pile of old bits completely redundant. 

Feel better?

Well, I'm sold. 

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9 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Well, I'm sold. 

My advice to anybody is try and drive as many cars as you can and if you are after something of any make  - try driving a couple before buying - see if you like.

I was lucky enough to drive a lot of this stuff when they were just cheap old cars - and restored they are probably better - but a lot of stuff is just a bit crap. But each to his own.

The Datsun 240Z is a much better car and outsold the Triumph in it's main market in the US. They are really fun to drive. 

The kit-car comment is right - Triumph had body supply problems - so the clever small-panel and chassis design of these saved tooling with outside suppliers.

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57 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Go get your ears sorted, and then properly listen to your Rover.  Much better than a GT6 in so many ways.

 

I don't disagree, but where the V8's relaxed burble might be soothing, the rasping howl of a carbed straight-six at full chat really makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up...

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9 hours ago, lesapandre said:

My advice to anybody is try and drive as many cars as you can and if you are after something of any make  - try driving a couple before buying - see if you like.

I was lucky enough to drive a lot of this stuff when they were just cheap old cars - and restored they are probably better - but a lot of stuff is just a bit crap. But each to his own.

The Datsun 240Z is a much better car and outsold the Triumph in it's main market in the US. They are really fun to drive. 

The kit-car comment is right - Triumph had body supply problems - so the clever small-panel and chassis design of these saved tooling with outside suppliers.

Yeah, to be honest, I'm not sold at £16.5k and some are far more than that so I've missed the boat there. But I still would if prices had stayed sensible. Its the smallest possible body wrapped around that engine. 

To be honest the one in the video above is a bit harsh, I love a Chris Witor exhaust on a 2000, that's perfect but a bit big for my garage. It would fit if the rest of the garage was empty but I've built the shelving around my 1300TC so I'll have to stick with that. Being a TC it has the Spitfire spec engine with a bespoke exhaust so it sounds about as good as any four cylinder engine ever will. 

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3 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Yeah, to be honest, I'm not sold at £16.5k and some are far more than that so I've missed the boat there. But I still would if prices had stayed sensible. Its the smallest possible body wrapped around that engine. 

To be honest the one in the video above is a bit harsh, I love a Chris Witor exhaust on a 2000, that's perfect but a bit big for my garage. It would fit if the rest of the garage was empty but I've built the shelving around my 1300TC so I'll have to stick with that. Being a TC it has the Spitfire spec engine with a bespoke exhaust so it sounds about as good as any four cylinder engine ever will. 

No four cylinder sounds better than a Subaru Impreza (92-05) with the right exhaust.

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55 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

No four cylinder sounds better than a Subaru Impreza (92-05) with the right exhaust.

And yet some say it's a Fiat twin cam. This should start a whole new thread rather than clog the ebay thread but then a Triumph straight six is better than all of them so we'll leave it there. 

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56 minutes ago, SteersWithThrottle said:

Difficult to figure the thinking of some people... personally I would just have thrown the entire filter housing away and made a velocity stack out of an old coke can

Maybe he`s got an old pair of tights stretched over the actual intake, like I`ve got on some of my Fiats...

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