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I'd be willing to bet the hardest replacement part to find for that TR-6 would be the Michelin red line tires, and if anybody was making a repro of them they would surely be spendy.
Regardless, I think a TR-6 is much more of a car than a Spitfire, and if I were in the market for a TR-6 and that one was within an hours drive I wouldn't hesitate to go look at it.

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Originally Posted by manbridge 74 (Post 9121137)

Great lines that have held up well.

The TR-6 was designed with Karmann (of Karmann Ghia) for Triumph.

It uses the same platform as the TR-4 IRS, TR-5 (same doors, interior, glass, etc.) with new sheetmetal... very handsome car.

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Originally Posted by SCadaddle (Post 9122065)

I'd be willing to bet the hardest replacement part to find for that TR-6 would be the Michelin red line tires, and if anybody was making a repro of them they would surely be spendy.

Coker offers red line tires.

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Originally Posted by SCadaddle (Post 9122065)

I did a quick search on tires and was reading on one forum that owners were using
6 to 8 to13 year old tires! No thanks!

My Dad has been restoring one for 2 years, and is almost finished with it. His is a 1972. They are super cool cars...A few years ago TopGear voted the TR6 "the ultimate Blokes car"

You really don't want to go any newer than 1973. Every year after 1974 they added more and more smog equipment but did nothing to offset the HP loss. British Leyland had no $$ at this time to rework the engine to offset the HP robbing smog equipment. So they just get less and less and less powerful year after year until they quit building them.

There is an Overdrive transmission model that is highly desirable. They had a fuel injected model as well but if you find one in the USA it's a grey market car b/c those never came to the USA officially.

There is a popular upgrade installing a Toyota (Celica I think?) 5-speed transmission.

To run really well on modern gas you need hardened valve seats and also a compression ratio change, most of them out there have probably already been done if they are driver cars.

They are EXTREMELY cheap to restore. Parts are plentiful and very cheap IMO. The cars are very simply built, which presents some challenges. There are many upgraded parts out there that have been made to improve various shortcomings of the original engineering. A couple big ones are rear gas shock mount plates and rear A-arm toe in adjustable plates (factory was done w/ shims).

One MAJOR thing to watch out for is the frames rust out beneath the rear A-arm attachment points and it's difficult to see. Wayward alignment can be a sign. Of course their detachment from rust-out is extremely dangerous! The front of the frames never rust b/c they were always covered w/ oil leaking from the engine! LOL!!

It used to be easy to get 200 bhp out of these engines, (and, not so good,to fly a front wheel coming hard out of corners), but not sure whether the parts to do so are still readily available.

OK My last name is Lucas. Now that all your lights dimmed a little, this looks like a good car. I just woke up a 1974 MGB that had been sleeping like this TR for 10 years. I will warn you, you will have to replace all the the hydraulics. End to end. If the car is dry you are in luck. That big tractor 6 is a great motor. Moss motors is your Pelican for these cars and eBay has lots of NOS stuff floating around it. That is silly money for that car by the way..

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Originally Posted by petrolhead611 (Post 9122425)

It used to be easy to get 200 bhp out of these engines, (and, not so good,to fly a front wheel coming hard out of corners), but not sure whether the parts to do so are still readily available.

Yes - Tr6s have now moved into the category, where if you modify them too much, they loose value quickly.

My 911SC has been like that since values surged - it is simply not worth the cost & pain of an engine upgrade (like adding a turbo!) when it actually lowers the attractiveness & price of the car. :(

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Originally Posted by afterburn 549 (Post 9120994)

Perhaps the Zener diode , the positive Grd system , and -

lucas electric jokes

The Lucas motto: "Get home before dark."

Lucas denies having invented darkness. But they still claim "sudden, unexpected darkness"

Lucas--inventor of the first intermittent wiper.

Lucas--inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.

The three-position Lucas switch--DIM, FLICKER and OFF.

The other three switch settings--SMOKE, SMOLDER and IGNITE.

Lucas dip-switch positions: LOW and BLOW (Bruce Miller, Welcome to the Hermitage Homepage)

The original anti-theft devices--Lucas Electric products.

"I've had a Lucas pacemaker for years and have never experienced any prob...

If Lucas made guns, wars would not start either.

Did you hear about the Lucas powered torpedo? It sank.

It's not true that Lucas, in 1947, tried to get Parliament to repeal Ohm's Law. They withdrew their efforts when they met too much resistance.

Did you hear the one about the guy that peeked into a Land Rover and asked the owner "How can you tell one switch from another at night, since they all look the same?" "He replied, it doesn't matter which one you use, nothing happens!"

Back in the '70s Lucas decided to diversify its product line and began manufacturing vacuum cleaners. It was the only product they offered which didn't suck.

Quality Assurance phoned and advised the Lucas engineering guy that they had trouble with his design shorting out. So he made the wires longer.

Why do the English drink warm beer? Lucas made the refrigerators, too.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone. Thomas Edison invented the Light Bulb. Joseph Lucas invented the Short Circuit.

Recommended procedure before taking on a repair of Lucas equipment: check the position of the stars, kill a chicken and walk three times sunwise around your car chanting: "Oh mighty Prince of Darkness protect your unworthy servant."

Lucas systems actually uses AC current; it just has a random frequency.

How to make AIDS disappear? Give it a Lucas parts number.

Recently, Lucas won out over Bosch to supply the electrical for the new Volkswagens. So, now the cars from the Black Forest will come with electrics supplied by the Lord of Darkness -- how appropriate!

Lucas is an acronym for Loose Unsoldered Connections and Splices.

I've always heard the settings on a 2-position Lucas light switch are "Off" and "Off".

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Originally Posted by zelrik911 (Post 9122476)

Yes - Tr6s have now moved into the category, where if you modify them too much, they loose value quickly.

There perhaps. Less so here.
Upgrades like Ratco frames, Goodparts axles/LSD, HVDA 5 speed conversions, Toyota brakes and suchlike don't affect value unless you have a 100% bone stock concours car.

Engine swaps do.