I used to have one of these
However I should state that mine wasn’t in quite such good condition mainly - it did only cost me £40 (in June 1987)
Mine didn’t have a roof – if it started raining you turned the collar of your Barbour up. It didn’t have much of the floor pan either. Oh yes & then there was the matter of no rear box on the exhaust. Sounded good though! You had to remember to keep it topped up with oil owing to the amount that it leaked but it went like the clappers; well at least it felt like it was going quickly when you can see the tarmac through the holes in the floor.
Still, forget all of that, it was summer & I was a nipper that hardly troubled a razor but I had an English sports car. Better still, it is the only car that I have ever owned that I have made money on. It was sold that September to a hitchhiker that I picked up on the A303 for £165. Can’t say fairer than that!
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Posted by: Will Brown | November 21, 2008 10:03 AM
Good thing that oil was cheaper in those days, matey. In today's market, it would have been cheaper to buy a Rolls than keep topping up the old Triumph with oil.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | November 22, 2008 4:17 PM
Those were the days of cheap sports cars, we thought they'd never end.
Actually, for me, they haven't- I still have the Mk2 Sprite I bought in 1989 and don't plan on selling it, ever. It's too much fun.
Posted by: Wilbur | November 27, 2008 1:10 PM
As an unusually humourous Hun said to me back in my Germany days: "Ah, Britischer shportzcar - one hour's driving, two hour's fixing"
Posted by: JT | November 28, 2008 1:53 PM