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Woody
Woody Dork
3/11/09 9:01 p.m.

Photobucket

neon4891
neon4891 SuperDork
3/11/09 9:02 p.m.

good enough for me, what is it?

Woody
Woody Dork
3/11/09 9:03 p.m.

Triumph TR4. Not sure of the year.

mad_machine
mad_machine SuperDork
3/11/09 9:05 p.m.

looks like it is holding up the barn

friedgreencorrado
friedgreencorrado Reader
3/11/09 9:15 p.m.
Woody wrote: Photobucket

Woody, don't do that to me until I get all three of mine healthy. If I bring home a new project, she won't lay me until I sell it.

Is there some sort of purification ritual somewhere that will get my Triumph fixation out of my system? Geez, I was even threatening to go find my GT6 the other day. I've got a clean title...from Mississippi...stuck somewhere in the Bentley manual...that I laid on the passenger seat ten years ago as the thing was towed to a field next to one of my racing buddies' house...

(sigh) This kind of temptation never goes away, does it..

friedgreencorrado
friedgreencorrado Reader
3/11/09 9:17 p.m.
mad_machine wrote: looks like it is holding up the barn

Nah. The 1"x6"s are. See them? They're the ones you'd have to remove to get the car out.

ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
3/12/09 5:35 a.m.

I don't know.. Looks like a more rare but more satisfying, shed find.

mistanfo
mistanfo Dork
3/12/09 7:34 a.m.

No, not a shed find, a run-in shed find. If we're going to be specific, let's be specific.

mad_machine
mad_machine SuperDork
3/12/09 12:57 p.m.

hmmm.. so which ran with parked.. the triumph or the shed?

Carson
Carson HalfDork
3/12/09 6:17 p.m.

Someone in my town has a TR4 in BRG poking out of a shed just like that. The owner won't sell, the wife is about ready to give it to me but her husband "will get around to restoring it."

TR4s are absolutely my favourtie Triumph.

Tim Baxter
Tim Baxter Online Editor
3/12/09 6:24 p.m.

TR5/250.

TR4 looks, with the six. Best Triumph evar.

friedgreencorrado
friedgreencorrado Reader
3/12/09 10:56 p.m.
Tim Baxter wrote: TR5/250. TR4 looks, with the six. Best Triumph evar.

And IRS on most examples. How could you tell it was a 250 (I'm assuming it's not a 5 because it's in the US )?

aircooled
aircooled Dork
3/12/09 11:10 p.m.

They have a TR 250 badge (on the back, not sure where else). I saw one driving down the highway a while back. I had no idea what it was, a friend who is into MG's had to explain it to me.

friedgreencorrado
friedgreencorrado Reader
3/12/09 11:17 p.m.

They also have one on the nose, but ya sure can't see it in that pic...

Woody
Woody Dork
3/13/09 11:01 a.m.

I've seen it enough to know that there's no badge and that the grill is not the same as the one on this car:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-stuv/Triumph-TR250-red-fa-lr.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.seriouswheels.com/stuv/Triumph-TR250-Red-FA.htm&h=841&w=1193&sz=376&tbnid=Yiukajc4ZTWVTM::&tbnh=106&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtr250&usg=__-4AUKO9Ejy3Q14DDEqgQY2t6tp0=&ei=zIK6Sd7LJ4iSMqSp5JMI&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=5&ct=image&cd=1

If I thought it was a TR250, I would have gone after it by now.

neon4891
neon4891 SuperDork
3/13/09 11:04 a.m.

Am I wrong for wanting a TR7, B.L. quality at its best

Tim Baxter
Tim Baxter Online Editor
3/13/09 11:14 a.m.

That's a TR4. I only said TR5/250 in response to Carson saying TR4s were his favorite Triumphs. Sorry for the confusion. Carry on.

Neon, I've always wanted a TR7. Just not bad enough to actually buy one.

neon4891
neon4891 SuperDork
3/13/09 11:30 a.m.

Story on my wanting a TR7, back at Boces my Auto tech class had a green TR7 that we where suposed to fix up and we raffled it off... I dont want to think of how much I spent on tickets for that thing But I dont feel so bad because we could never get it to run right

Woody
Woody Dork
3/13/09 4:09 p.m.
neon4891 wrote: Story on my wanting a TR7, back at Boces my Auto tech class had a green TR7 that we where suposed to fix up and we raffled it off... I dont want to think of how much I spent on tickets for that thing But I dont feel so bad because we could never get it to run right

"Grand Prize: Triumph TR7, runs like new..."

Carson
Carson HalfDork
3/13/09 6:18 p.m.
Tim Baxter wrote: That's a TR4. I only said TR5/250 in response to Carson saying TR4s were his favorite Triumphs. Sorry for the confusion. Carry on. Neon, I've always wanted a TR7. Just not bad enough to actually buy one.

Hey, I do love the TR5 and the sound and linear power of the straight sixes, do not get me wrong. I just love the TR4 and TR4A more. I have a thing for the under 2 litre SCCA racing of the 60s.

aeronca65t
aeronca65t Reader
3/13/09 6:39 p.m.

More decrepit Triumphs.

Brought to you by your friendly, local MG driver

Carson
Carson HalfDork
3/13/09 6:48 p.m.

This one's for you neon:

mad_machine
mad_machine SuperDork
3/13/09 7:47 p.m.

^^^ oh look at that nasty sunroof...

friedgreencorrado
friedgreencorrado Reader
3/13/09 10:58 p.m.
Tim Baxter wrote: That's a TR4. I only said TR5/250 in response to Carson saying TR4s were his favorite Triumphs. Sorry for the confusion. Carry on. Neon, I've always wanted a TR7. Just not bad enough to actually buy one.

THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!!...uh, sorry. Flashback.

Back when I was racing (SCCA Improved Touring, SEDIV), there was a guy running a 7 in ITB. He couldn't hang with us on the straights, but man, he sure had it hooked up under the fenders. He gave the RX7s fits in the twisty bits. I once asked him what he'd have to do to give it more power. His answer was, "..make it illegal."

Jensenman
Jensenman SuperDork
3/14/09 9:08 a.m.
Tim Baxter wrote: TR5/250. TR4 looks, with the six. Best Triumph evar.

Plus eleventy billion. Too bad it was only one year (1968).

I harbor secret lust in my heart for a TR7 'vert. Red with a biscuit interior.

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