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SixtynineTR6
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Hello All,
My name is Dave. I actually live on one of the smaller Canary Islands but grew up in Pennsylvania (which is where my car is).
I've owned a blue 1969 TR6 since 1983. It was a barn find back then. 56k orig miles with a blown motor. A young guy abandoned it in a neighbors barn. At the time I had my TR3A as my driver (I was 17 years old) and a long since abandoned TR4A (which I had also recently acquired). All in my parents driveway (before we got the barn). My obsession with Triumphs and motorcycles kept me away from drugs though, I must say. So I look at it as though British cars and motorcycles saved my life!
I worked on restoring my TR6 all through junior and senior year of HS. I actually carried the remachined block down the basement and rebuilt the motor down there. With youth comes stupidity. Then I carried the rebilt short block back up the flight of steps. I was strong back then. Everything on the car got restored mechanically. I finished the car the morning of my graduation from HS, working all through the night. After graduation my girlfriend and I drove it down the beach. Will never forget it. I didn't have the interior lights working yet, so the star filled black sky dipped down into the cockpit with us. The most beautiful of mid-atlantic early summer nights.
I drove the car a total of maybe 2000 miles and went off to live my life, leaving the car in my parents barn. 17 years later I felt the powerful urge once again and rebuilt everything a second time. The car must have been shipped below deck to the USA because it has zero cancerous rust, though the paint is literally falling off the body. So it looks like crap to the untrained eye.
I built and freshened up the motor with only the highest quality components. It looks stock from the outside (with the exception of the header) but it rocks. Never seen a faster TR6 that still looks original. Drives like a dream, tracks perfectly straight and sounds fantastic (I custom made the exhaust system). So over the past three year I have driven it another 2000 miles maybe. And I've been loving life. I just turned 60,000 miles last week. I drove it on a 4 hour trip at 90mph continuous last year (or the year before) trying to outrun the hurricane. We succeeded and we both loved it!
I recently redid the dashboard (and I don't just mean the wood dash- new TR4A dashtop crash pad, as I don't like the ashtray, all new seals, inspected and repaired all wiring, replaced anything that didn't work, refinished the original dash wood (no new laminate, the ORIGINAL wood-talk about time consuming- but it looks stellar), and made sure all guages worked as they should, replacing anything even suspect.)
I had two TR4A cars, one LHD and one original RHD, that I also had in my parents barn for 20 years. But my parents needed the space three years ago, and as I was living in Spain I wasn't able to return. My brother found someone that wanted the cars and I gave them away (because my brother assured me that the guy sounded as though he would give thema good home). Better for them to have a good home than to be put out in the rain (so says I).
But as my first car was a 1961 TR3A I have been having a powerful desire to return to the genre once again. So if any of you know of a low rust TR3 or TR3A for a reasonable price please let me know. I am actually quite poor. I live in stone shack in a whitewashed pueblo with three foot holes in my roof, no hot water and no refrigerator. And I am a farmer, basically I work for food. But I have been happy, maintaining my only sentimental (emotional)materialistic item in this world in my parents barn. And to make matters worse I really NEED a TR3. I am back home now and I have been driving all over the mid-atlantic region and northeast of the USA looking at TR3 and TR3A cars but all have had too much cancerous rust. So if any of you hear of one with less rust to the main body of the car (sill and fender rust don't bother me) please let me know. And also the condition of the mechanicals don't matter to me. A freely turning engine would be a plus.
So, that's me. A diehard Triumph lover with respect for all cars (especially british ones).
Have a nice day,
Dave
My name is Dave. I actually live on one of the smaller Canary Islands but grew up in Pennsylvania (which is where my car is).
I've owned a blue 1969 TR6 since 1983. It was a barn find back then. 56k orig miles with a blown motor. A young guy abandoned it in a neighbors barn. At the time I had my TR3A as my driver (I was 17 years old) and a long since abandoned TR4A (which I had also recently acquired). All in my parents driveway (before we got the barn). My obsession with Triumphs and motorcycles kept me away from drugs though, I must say. So I look at it as though British cars and motorcycles saved my life!
I worked on restoring my TR6 all through junior and senior year of HS. I actually carried the remachined block down the basement and rebuilt the motor down there. With youth comes stupidity. Then I carried the rebilt short block back up the flight of steps. I was strong back then. Everything on the car got restored mechanically. I finished the car the morning of my graduation from HS, working all through the night. After graduation my girlfriend and I drove it down the beach. Will never forget it. I didn't have the interior lights working yet, so the star filled black sky dipped down into the cockpit with us. The most beautiful of mid-atlantic early summer nights.
I drove the car a total of maybe 2000 miles and went off to live my life, leaving the car in my parents barn. 17 years later I felt the powerful urge once again and rebuilt everything a second time. The car must have been shipped below deck to the USA because it has zero cancerous rust, though the paint is literally falling off the body. So it looks like crap to the untrained eye.
I built and freshened up the motor with only the highest quality components. It looks stock from the outside (with the exception of the header) but it rocks. Never seen a faster TR6 that still looks original. Drives like a dream, tracks perfectly straight and sounds fantastic (I custom made the exhaust system). So over the past three year I have driven it another 2000 miles maybe. And I've been loving life. I just turned 60,000 miles last week. I drove it on a 4 hour trip at 90mph continuous last year (or the year before) trying to outrun the hurricane. We succeeded and we both loved it!
I recently redid the dashboard (and I don't just mean the wood dash- new TR4A dashtop crash pad, as I don't like the ashtray, all new seals, inspected and repaired all wiring, replaced anything that didn't work, refinished the original dash wood (no new laminate, the ORIGINAL wood-talk about time consuming- but it looks stellar), and made sure all guages worked as they should, replacing anything even suspect.)
I had two TR4A cars, one LHD and one original RHD, that I also had in my parents barn for 20 years. But my parents needed the space three years ago, and as I was living in Spain I wasn't able to return. My brother found someone that wanted the cars and I gave them away (because my brother assured me that the guy sounded as though he would give thema good home). Better for them to have a good home than to be put out in the rain (so says I).
But as my first car was a 1961 TR3A I have been having a powerful desire to return to the genre once again. So if any of you know of a low rust TR3 or TR3A for a reasonable price please let me know. I am actually quite poor. I live in stone shack in a whitewashed pueblo with three foot holes in my roof, no hot water and no refrigerator. And I am a farmer, basically I work for food. But I have been happy, maintaining my only sentimental (emotional)materialistic item in this world in my parents barn. And to make matters worse I really NEED a TR3. I am back home now and I have been driving all over the mid-atlantic region and northeast of the USA looking at TR3 and TR3A cars but all have had too much cancerous rust. So if any of you hear of one with less rust to the main body of the car (sill and fender rust don't bother me) please let me know. And also the condition of the mechanicals don't matter to me. A freely turning engine would be a plus.
So, that's me. A diehard Triumph lover with respect for all cars (especially british ones).
Have a nice day,
Dave
