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MG vs Triumph - Survival Rate

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Steve_S

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A co-worker and I were just talking about our cars... my MGB GT and his TR-6 of years past. He asked which car I thought had the better survival rate, meaning how many were made versus how many survive now. I have no idea how many TR-6's are still on the road, and honestly I'm not sure how many MGB GTs are actually out there.

Any opinions or better yet hard facts on this? Just for fun, why not also compare MGB roadsters?
 
I'd have to say TR6's...No real evidence other than it feels a little "tougher"....and given the fact that they are worth a bit more than B's it's more likely that someone would bother to resurrect one.
 
I might have to agree with that. Based on car show experience it seems tha there are nearly an equal number of MGB and TR6 at most large shows (fairly close anyway). With the production number differences between the two, the TR6's would take the lead percentage wise.

It also seems that TR's in general have fewer owners per car than MGB's or Spitfires. The latter two seem to be handed around a lot. I feel lucky on my two TR's. I'm the third owner of each car. For each car the previous owners were one long and one short. The original owner of my TR6 owned it from 1972 until 1988, the second owner bought it to restore and it sat at his house for two years until I bought it in 1990. The first owner of my TR8 traded it in 1982, with less than 10,000 miles on it, and the second owner owned it from 1982 to 2005 when I bought it. Maybe I'm just lucky on that count and it has skewed my reference a bit though. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
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