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Having had an Austin Seven I can confirm that the plaque on the dashboard is both important and often ignored. From memory it is better to fall over to the left then you don't lose so much petrol or oil so long as you push her back up quickly.
 
Dralowid said:
Having had an Austin Seven I can confirm that the plaque on the dashboard is both important and often ignored. From memory it is better to fall over to the left then you don't lose so much petrol or oil so long as you push her back up quickly.
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I watched an Austin 7 Ulster special with aero-screens flip over at Pardon's Corner, Prescott Hill Climb on one of the VSCC days a couple of years ago. In the miniscule amount of time he had, the driver curled himself into the body of the car and suffered only a loss of pride, and probably a large bill for T cutting the panels and the screen back into shape.

So rapid and so engrossing was this whole scene that I entirely forgot to take any picture, which is doubly strange as my then D700 could have shot off several in the time. I'll never make a press cameraman!
 
My dad used to say that (before the war) people used to line the rear footwell with bricks to keep it (Austin 7) on the road...

In the next town to here there is, or was, a couple with a one owner from new one.

2CV's don't need the sign but I often thought a horizon indicator was needed.

Regards, David
 
^^When the TR4 first came out I did not like the style; it just did not look right for a Triumph. (After the radical MGB, that was about the time the new Porsche 911 did not look like a Porsche... what's going wrong with the world?!) But over the years it grew on me and eventually I became an admirer!
 
1965 Chevrolet C10 (Apache).

Nikon FM2n, AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.8S, Ultrafine Xtreme 400, developed in LegacyPro L110 at 1:31 for 5.5 minutes. Three individual black and white frames shot through Tiffen #25 Red, #58 Green, and #47 Blue filters, respectively, then combined using GIMP to create a trichrome color image.


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Interesting effect, isn't it, the 3 color-separation exposures combined for full color, with the shrubbery moving in the wind... I've done that as well, and deliberately moved things in the scene between exposures. :)
 
Doug said:
^^When the TR4 first came out I did not like the style; it just did not look right for a Triumph. (After the radical MGB, that was about the time the new Porsche 911 did not look like a Porsche... what's going wrong with the world?!) But over the years it grew on me and eventually I became an admirer!
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Whereas I've never been a great fan of the TR6 pictured! One iteration too many.
 
Triumph had a 6 in line 1600cc engine that they used for a short run in the Herald. It always amazed me that they never did much with it. Thinking GT6 etc...


Regards, David
 
I have a Triumph 1600 six cylinder engine I've been tempted to put in my GT6 but I'll probably never get to it. If anyone wants a Triumph 1600 six cylinder come to Winston Salem and you can have it.


As to the TR7. Years ago I worked on one for a friend. Did a valve job, shaved the warped head and since valve setting shims were not easily available I measured, cut, hardened and ground the required shims. A lot of work for a mostly plastic Triumph and at the time I had a healthy Two liter Pinto that could whoop the TR7 easily. Joe
 
Dralowid said:
Is that the engine that went into the Vitesse?
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The Vitesse had the 2 litre engine; afterwards a lot of larger makers went down the one body several engines route.

I thought the 1200 Herald estate was the best of the lot. I had a lot of trouble with mine until one day (showing another car) I mentioned it to someone. He opened the bonnet and said "that's a Spitfire engine but with one carb."; he then grabbed the distributor and twisted it round and said "that looks OK" and it went like the proverbial dose of salts from then on. Moral; don't rely on the local dealer to service them...

Regards, David
 
This is the car of a neighbor of mine. He got it towards the end of last year. Sold a Studebaker to make room for this one in the garage. With the 'stay at home' order here in So Cal he's been busy cleaning the underside and fixing a few things that needed attention. I kind of like it. My left knee forced me out of my 912 and into a 911SC with a sportomatic in it. Being laid off back in '12 forced me out of that car. My brother has my old 912 though so I still get to see it and play with it.
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Larry Cloetta said:
True, but the TR7 showed just how much worse it could get.
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I dissent a bit - it was a cutting edge design in so many ways, but let down by a pretty uninspiring engine (the TR8 changed that), jacked up suspension (the curse of relying on the US market at the time) and British Leyland build quality.

The 60s really did pass BMC by - when you see the exquisite Pininfarina design for the MGB replacement (abandoned with Triumph taking the sports car crown in the group) and the continued eking out of the aged TR range meant that everything was staked on one car.

TR7 coming out of Orchards at Prescott Hill Climb, Vie en Bleu weekend May 2018 - 80th anniversary.

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