I know I have already made a contribution but I came so close to picking up a 1 owner low mileage example of this that was totally unmodified which was very rare. Private sale through a franchised Nissan garage where the dealer principal thought he could buy it cheap and made it impossible to talk with the owner. Eventually bought a new mk1 Impreza turbo but got to tell the owner what the dealer had been doing so he got his comeuppance in the end. Andy
It was called "Magenta" (posh name for purple?) and actually looked quite good in real life. Great looking car that sounded good as well but sadly had some serious production issues.
Mostly the straight-six Triumph engine, I believe, which was often changed for a Rover V-eight lump, wasn't it? I think it looks best in high-gloss navy blue. But you are right, the magenta looked better in the flesh.
Yes. You're right. Schoolboy error. But the engine was a disaster for Triumph, wasn't it? And didn't it spawn a small industry replacing them with the Rover lump?
But seriously, nothing quite matches the pay-off from stroking a lovely 246GT. The acid test is, of course, would I climb over a 246 to get to Eva Green? My answer is, "Stop fucking torturing me with unsolvable puzzles".
Not a straight 8? I've never managed to shake that long-standing conviction that is was a straight 8. Put me right, someone.
3.0 litre V8 with sohc on each bank but suffered with o/heating problems on early models due to h/gasket and waterway mis-alignment also regularly hammered big end and main bearings due to lack of proper hardening on crank journals all rounded off with cam chain self adjusters which frequently didn't and some of the worst chain rattling you can imagine unless of course you owned a Dolomite 1850 or sprint. Still want one though as these problems have all been sorted over the years and they are now the car they always should have been.
Still having to get used to not owning this. Obviously the carpark at the Revival, owing to the de-rigeur daft hat. When driven in a spirited manner, the Triumph straight six can be a surprisingly fast car, even compared to stuff 40 years newer, but only in a straight line. Never had an accident in it, and wouldn't want to. Sold it nearly a year ago to finance my Porsche 356 SC project. The chap I bought this from about 12 years ago had an Italia project car for sale, but I thought that it was a bit steep at £9.5k. Instead of spending my hard earned on the TR6 project, I should have hocked myself to a bank loan for the Italia, but the whole of the classic car world is full of might have beens.
