Triumph TR6

It's a company that didn't make good cars.

The TR6

was deadly looking.

The TR4, deadly looking.

Yeah.

Or a TR6.

There you go.

TVR Speed Six engine in a modern Triumph GT6.

Thomas Hodmore.

1971 Triumph TR6 out of Chagrin Falls.

And he is racing for mid-Ohio school Carbotech stupid fast

tires.

That's not bad.

All righty.

We had number 44, Jack Madison with a 74 Triumph TR6.

1970, excuse me.

bitches.

Okay, you missed the section where Chris is actively trying to buy another TR6.

I know.

Did you notice how I literally said that? He put that in the chat.

oh you're saying s52 swap an e36 yeah e36 i

actually i actually really do like e36 touring for chris because that is special enough it does do fucking practical it does do yeah it's super practical for dog and everything like that mountain bike on the roof like yeah and then my bike's in the car well yeah but you want to keep it nice

The other thing with E30 touring is when I had the E30 touring, my fleet was E30 touring, TR6, BMW 2002, Triumph Spitfire that I was restoring, and a Range Rover Classic.

I had five cars and no airbags.

... going up and down, you know, Ellsworth.

In my TR6 car.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[laughs]

I didn't know him prior to that time.

I'd seen him around, 'cause he was a car enthusiast.

He saw my TR6 Triumph convertible.

Yeah.

Yeah, we all went to college together.

Burke used to drive me around in his little TR6.

Or did

you have the Spitfire?

Second one I saw was a Jaguar XK120 fixed head.

The one I ended up buying was a Triumph TR6.

The Triumph TR6 is currently worth about...

Six grand?

Forty grand? Forty? Really?

Because they sort of, you know, they did have a very natural lineage, didn't they? A natural progression.

TR7 felt very different to a TR6 or looked very different.

Did they follow straight away or was there a gap? I think

there was a gap.

Yeah.

The TR6.

The TR6.

That's right.

That's right.

indeed.

Go on then, what can you offer up to that? Well, it's my only probably trad choice of the three, actually, because I've gone with Triumph TR6.

And I should just put a slight government health warning.

I shocked myself when I was looking for them and realized that actually quite a few are now over £20,000.

Again, we talked about modifications at the start of the podcast.

There are some sympathetic changes.

upgrade you can do a lot of people grew up mazda mx5 seats in them to make them a bit more comfortable as a traditional choice i think a triumph tr6 takes a lot of beating and and values you know that they look like they're going up in certain quarters but i've remember tr6 is being around the 15 grand mark for quite some time and you can still buy them for 15 to 20 so

yeah i think you still can in fact probably at the bottom end actually it probably softened a little bit i mean the very best cars We'll go past 20,000 with relative ease.