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who uses their triumph as an everyday driver?

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the reason i ask is because my 70 tr6 is going to be my daily driver.....well actully it is now. but im moving out to st louis for flight school and ive got that and a motorcycle. should be interesting...... by the way anyone have some extra tr6 rear hubs? mine are going and i need to send em out to be rebuilt. thanks
Randy
 
TS74011L was my wifes daily driver for 13 years. April thru November (in Wisconsin without side screens) with an occasional January or February drive, too.
 
my spit was a daily driver before I tore it apart. It will be again if I can ever figure out where all the pieces are and how to make them fit together again.
 
I used to drive my TR6 daily except when the snow was too deep or I needed to haul more than it could carry. Those duties belonged to my Bronco II. Then I went and restified the TR6. Built a performance engine and gave it a pretty paint job. All of which came about from driving through a blizzard and being car #8 of a 40 car pile up. Now its the occasional driver. Luckily, I was in my Bronco when a kid in a Jeep decided to use me as a physics experiment. Now, my only other mode of transport is my TR8, my mountain bike or my Addidas. So my TR8 has assumed the daily driver duties for the last two years.
 
I alternated between my Vanagon and the TR6 during good weather (I like to listen to the radio on the way to work and the Triumph doesn't have one) but since I crashed my Vanagon two weeks ago /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cryin.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wall.gif the TR6 has taken over as the %100 daily driver. Even before the crash I still put about 5000 miles a year on the TR6 in the 5 years I've owned it and have never been stranded.
 
I have a Bugeye that has clocked 2400 miles this year as the prefered gofer vehicle of our house.
 
My herald is going to have to be a daily driver a few months from now. Of course I still have to finish putting it back together. Next weeks project.
 
I have what we call the 50/50 rule. If there is more than a 50% chance of rain or the temperature is less than 50 degrees I drive the Porsche. The 50 degree rule gets broken most of the time because driving home on those days is really nice.
I only carry a taneau cover with me and leave the top and screens at home. God invented bars so motorcyclists and TR3 drivers could get out of the rain.
Work is only a 16 mile round trip, add in weekends and a car show or two and I still only drive about 5000 miles a year.
 
"In the day" my wife used the TR6 as a daily driver to and from work with out a problem. It also provided many weekend trips; never a breakdown. My wife abandoned the car, reluctantly, when child #2 came along because of the seatbelt issue. I drove the TR6 80 miles/day to work for several months; never a problem. If I get a decent hard top it will become a daily driver for me now.
 
I have used my TR3 and TR6 as daily drivers at one point or another. The latest time was this summer when I gave up on my daily driver. I racked up about 6,000 miles on the 6. I bought a new car last month so the TR6 is relegated to evenings and weekends for what I hope will be a long time.
 
Funny thing I remember about using an LBC as a daily driver from 1976 through 1983. It never started on a daily basis.

Might be better called a John Daly driver.
 
Just got my 79' Carmine Red Spit on the road in June after gear box change out and put about 1500 miles on it before a radius arm on passenger side decided to move through the heal board and into the cockpit about an inch. (up on blocks, seats and carpet back out and ready to strike up the mig, just need the time.)

...I did put 74000 on my 72' that I bought new. (wish I'd never sold it) Mallard Green, gray interior, hard top, beautiful little car.

Patrick

Western N.C.
79' "driver"
79' waiting for a manual coke converion and new hydrolics
77' project
78' project
80' parts car
 
I too, use my 74 TR6 as a alternating daily driver. It alternates with my 74 Norton Commando (if sunny)and the BMW R100RT if it is not, and it running. I use the TR6 in the worst of the winter cold spell as I fear the black ice conditions and would rather have an accident in the car as I would rather fix the car than mend my body.
I have a 80 mile a day habit round trip.
 
I TAKE MY TR6 TO WORK 5 DAYS A WEEK @ 24 MILES ONE WAY, BUT ON THE WEEKENDS I RACK UP ABOUT 100+ MILES (MAY TO DEC)(PROVIDING NO RAIN, NO SNOW, NO SALT!)
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Used to drive the 4A everyday and everywhere when I was 19. Now it enjoys fair weather driving only as I drive my regular car ( no I am not an owner of a 308!) from 25 to 100 miles per day while at work
 
i drove my 73 b as an only car in iowa for 5 years until i got a saab 96 for winter. in 4 years i hope to quit work and drive off in the sunset with my 66 4a (and wife) which i now have about 30 miles on (the 4a). a great 30 miles but now back on blocks. it's engine bay will never look as good as kodanja's.
 
maybe a little melodramatic but i did buy this car for a daily driver weather permitting. first i have to get it sorted out. and i do intend to head west when time permits but when we get to the pacific we will turn around and come back to good old iowa.
 
My TR4 is my daily driver. Fortunately I'm retired so I mostly get to pick the days and the destinations. The TR3A is just for fun.

sail said:
...i do intend to head west when time permits...
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Let me know if your route brings you thru Tucson.
 
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