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I already know that there are already afew A class Trumpys on this forum but thought i might aswell post my one up here.

About 2 years ago my grandfather towed home a rusty Mk1 Triumph back to his house, and we all thought he was going mad from his old age. Early december last year he had finished redoing the whole car. Most nuts and bolts were replaced with new items, the diff from a mk2 was put in the rear, and a 2500 was put in the engine bay with a 4 speed overdrive gearbox. All done by himself. The outside was painted in a bluey green and the rims were painted a creamy colour. It looks mint to say the least!!! He also has a TR6 he imported from the USA a few years ago!! He is triuph mad. His next project is a PI he has in the shed. Ill take a couple of pics of these to cars soon.

Well until he started dailying his MK1 he was driving around in this

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And when he towed home the Mk1 i said to him that when it was finished that i would purchase the Mk2 off him no matter how hard up i was at the time i would find the money. Well that time came early this week!

I am very stoked with it!

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Even came with a rug in the back to protect the mint red interior

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It has the 2500 carby engine, 4 speed manual with overdrive and air shocks in the back. Which when i picked it up he told me they were good because you can have 3 people in the back and not have the wheels poking out at funny angles! ie negative camber.

Plans are to lower it slightly and put in a decent stereo system, then cruise around in it.

Let me know what you guys think.

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Been driving this thing round quite alot and im loving this car. Really good on the open road!

Got the other grill onto it

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Also while digging around in the shed i found these beauty rings, around 100mm wide

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As ive said my grandfather is nuts about triumphs which means we have heaps of spare parts

Diffs

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O/D gearboxes are pretty common in his shed

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Ow and here is my uncles mint Bonneville

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And the part most of you triumph lovers will be waiting for( sorry the car is up on jackstands getting its gearbox swapped but ill get better ones soon)

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2.5 engine transplant

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His other triumph, left hand drive tr6 imported from the states a few years ago

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The mint steelies it rolls with ballon spec tyres

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Thoughts and ideas welcome http://www.oldschool.co.nz/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31296

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Been awhile since iv had this car going, Methven Rodeo was on over labour weekend and i thought it would be a good roadtrip in the triumph so got my old man to get a wof on it and picked it up on Friday night for the weekend.

Got up on Saturday morning and put the roof racks on that i recently purchased and headed for methven. Heres a few pics of the trip

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Heres one of my mate driving

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Got to Methven later on in the evening and the camping ground owner offered to buy my car when we pulled up.

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Went up the Mt Hutt ski road for a scenic drive on Sunday morning, battery mount came loose so tightened it up before we headed back down

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Woke up on Labour Day to find a good dumping of snow so headed home before it got to deep

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On the way back down south forded a river

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Over all the car performed well but need to reseal the front windscreen and sort out a knocking noise in the rear end. Also lowering it a couple of inches and maybe finding some other wheels for it

Let me know what you think

http://oldschool.co....showtopic=31783

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Making abit of progress on this, got a spare door but turned out the original wasnt to bad with abit of lovin from a hammer

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Also picked up a set of globe wheels in 14x6

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Have these aswell in 14x6

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Unsure which ones to go for, going to throw 195/50s or similar onto a set to lower it abit more. Leaning more towards the globes to keep it looking more original

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Finally got it all painted back up again. 

 

Had a 21st at our flat in the weekend so cleared out the garage with my hunting quad on trailer. Towed it real good over to the yard at work

 

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Also acquired a boss kit and put in a Nardi i brought about 4 years ago

 

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Start of winter was driving along the one way in town and looked out the rear view mirror to a trail of oil followed by an oil light

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The rubber o ring on the filter gave way, blew most of its oil out. Luckily I was quick on it and flicked it off.

Changed the bumpers over to the early shape ones with no rubber strip

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Grandad is also tidying up another MK1, he's got a planned head etc to go on it. Started the original motor for the first time in 20 years yesterday

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He is driving this PI he has had since new, we are having trouble with it at idle and around town at low speeds, on the open road runs perfectly. If anyone wants a copy of the books, PM me and I'll scan them in a PDF 

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Theres a TR6, another Mk1 and some old Triumph bikes I'll get some photos over summer of aswell

If anyone has any extractors/ headers for a 2.5 let me know, also on the hunt for a wagon to add to the collection. 

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