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Andrew-S:
--- Quote from: cbxman on October 09, 2021, 01:22:38 PM ---Andrew,
Apologies. I missed your question regarding the car I am selling.
It is a 1965 TR4A without the IRS. It was an early US export car. The US market was and still is a lover of 'live/rigid' rear axles. The Mustang only went IRS in 2020! So Triumph modified the new IRS chassis so they could put cart springs and a live axle back in!
This car was repatriated about '91 and was restored and converted to RHD. As it was exported to California originally and ended its US life in Pasadena, it knew nothing about rain and is completely rust free.
It should be up for auction on "The Market" shortly.
Cheers,
Jerry
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Ahhh Jerry, you're clearly a man with excellent taste is classics cars! 8) I've been a TR owner since 1983, an ownership which has included two TR4As, a TR3A and four TR6's, all UK cars.
Good luck with the sale of the 4A and finding a nice 750/4.
Cheers,
Andrew
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
When I was 17 I bought a TR2 from the then Lord Scarsdale of Kedleston Hall via my late father who was in the car trade - it was a black one with rotten sills etc. I hated the dam thing as the ride was so firm - it was if I have remembered correctly one turn of the wheel from lock to lock - I lived in the countryside with my parents at the time so it was typical B road drive into town - a nightmare to keep in a straight line.
When it rained water got past the window seals so I got a wet bum. After a couple of weeks I had the bodywork fixed and sold it & bought an FB Victor. I think I sold it for around £450. Hate to think what it would have been worth today. For some reason although I like the styling of the TR6 my favourite is the TR5 PI - closely followed by the Triumph Vitesse convertable or GT6.
cbxman:
--- Quote from: Macabethiele (Ted) on October 09, 2021, 07:33:50 PM ---When I was 17 I bought a TR2 from the then Lord Scarsdale of Kedleston Hall via my late father who was in the car trade - it was a black one with rotten sills etc. I hated the dam thing as the ride was so firm - it was if I have remembered correctly one turn of the wheel from lock to lock - I lived in the countryside with my parents at the time so it was typical B road drive into town - a nightmare to keep in a straight line.
When it rained water got past the window seals so I got a wet bum. After a couple of weeks I had the bodywork fixed and sold it & bought an FB Victor. I think I sold it for around £450. Hate to think what it would have been worth today. For some reason although I like the styling of the TR6 my favourite is the TR5 PI - closely followed by the Triumph Vitesse convertable or GT6.
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Ted,
TRs aren’t the most waterproof vehicles are they ;D
My wife considers the 4a a bone shaker! >:( She would rather get in the Audi A5 Cabriolet.. OK…
A TR6 would probably have been a better ride than a rigid axle TR4A. Lesson learned!
Cheers,
Jerry
Andrew-S:
--- Quote from: cbxman on October 10, 2021, 08:31:48 AM ---
--- Quote from: Macabethiele (Ted) on October 09, 2021, 07:33:50 PM ---When I was 17 I bought a TR2 from the then Lord Scarsdale of Kedleston Hall via my late father who was in the car trade - it was a black one with rotten sills etc. I hated the dam thing as the ride was so firm - it was if I have remembered correctly one turn of the wheel from lock to lock - I lived in the countryside with my parents at the time so it was typical B road drive into town - a nightmare to keep in a straight line.
When it rained water got past the window seals so I got a wet bum. After a couple of weeks I had the bodywork fixed and sold it & bought an FB Victor. I think I sold it for around £450. Hate to think what it would have been worth today. For some reason although I like the styling of the TR6 my favourite is the TR5 PI - closely followed by the Triumph Vitesse convertable or GT6.
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Ted,
TRs aren’t the most waterproof vehicles are they ;D
My wife considers the 4a a bone shaker! >:( She would rather get in the Audi A5 Cabriolet.. OK…
A TR6 would probably have been a better ride than a rigid axle TR4A. Lesson learned!
Cheers,
Jerry
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Undoubtedly Jerry! ;D ;D
Lake Como, June 2019
PHILIP2908:
OOOOhhh! TRs….
Glad to see so much enthusiasm for TR Sports Cars here. At the risk of losing the thread on CBs…
In 1990, I bought a US import TR3A; advertised as a California car but after I got it home turned out it came from Ohio where it rains more than Manchester. Restored it (not very well), changed it to RHD and myself, my new wife and the Cocker Spaniel used it for a good while travelling around the UK and France. Good fun apart from the vague steering, rubbish brakes and side-screen windows that fell out on the motorway; usually when it was raining.
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As the wife didn’t like bikes (still doesn’t) my restored CB750 K2, two C72s, CD175 sloper, C102 (Honda 50 with an electric start) had to go, so were all sold to make way in my single garage for the TR. I kept the XL250K0 though which I still have.
Next thing, life moves on; 2 daughters turn up and with no safe room in the back of the TR, it had to go and was replaced with a Morgan 4 seater. Worst car (apart from the Matra Rancho) I ever owned. A chassis like a garden gate made from angle iron, rock solid pillar suspension at the front (design unchanged from when it was invented in 1910). But with a Capri 1600GT engine in the front it went like the clappers but in a terrifying unusable way. Hated it – I didn’t get the Morgan ‘thing’ and still don’t.
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Got rid of that and the only 4 seater open classic I fancied was the Merc SL. A HUGE money pit but nice to drive. But the girls, who are now 20 & 22, don’t like it as they have long hair which gets tangled by being blown about by the back draught. They moan like crazy so it doesn’t really get used.
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I give up !! So that’s up for sale next year and maybe I’ll go back to a 2 seater; but whatever happens I’ll always keep the CB750 and XL250.
Phil in Cheltenham.
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