https://youtu.be/t7N2k5nCGs8
I know there is a thread somewhere but I couldn't find it.
I am going Monday morning to have a look at a TR6 for sale in my area and if the body and frame are as the seller says they are, then, I will be bringing it home.
In the spring of 1984 I bought my first car, a 1976 Triumph TR6, red with chestnut brown interior. I was a senior in highschool and it was pretty cool driving that car to school. From the outside the car looked fantastic but the frame of the car was pretty well rusted so I found a parts car, a 1973 model and it had a solid frame. A mechanic friend of the family and I took the car completely apart and performed a frame swap. While I had the donor frame out, I sandblasted it myself on a hot summer day, the place I worked at gave me all the equipment and sand and I had to wear a heavy canvas jacket and helmet thing , it was hot but I got it done. The frame was all nice and silver now and I bought Rustoleum primer and Rustoleum gloss black paint and paid a mechanic a case of beer to paint the frame and a set of factory wheels for me. While the body was off the frame we sent the car to a body shop to have the rockers and rear valance rebuilt from steel, I went up there every day after work to check on the progress. We also had the engine out of the car and I replaced gaskets and painted the block red, the valve cover and air filter cover I painted black. I also swapped the intake and exhaust manifolds with those from the 73 to remove all the performance choking smog equipment and added a Monza free flow exhaust system. I started all of that process in July and we had the car back on the street by late October. I enjoyed that car for a few years but found that living at the beach started taking it's toll and the car started having more rust issues, floor pans and the bottom edge of the passenger side door to be exact and then something broke or came loose in the transmission and I parked the car in my Dad's garage and bought something else to drive. I figured my Dad and I would work on the car together but I eventually sold the car and that was that.
I have always wanted another one. So, fast forward to yesterday, my brother-in-law finds this car for sale and, knowing my fondness for TRs, he messages me about it and now here I am about to probably pull the trigger on getting another one. The good thing is, my wife actually likes the car and that's a good thing, she told me to get it so...[emoji846]
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