triumph...tristan Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 So after wanting one for so long i finally found myself a genuine petrol injected Triumph! From first glance the car looked really tidy and straight, but sadly it had white plates because the owner got personalized plates put on at some stage in its life! But the interior is in really good condition the leather seats is a nice feature. It was manual overdrive, and the car even ran well, It has thousands of dollars worth of receipts with the car so i would have been stupid not to by this one! The car started its life in Palmerston North as a business car for Delta plastics in 1973 then after that the car was sold to gentleman in 1977 who keeped it for his whole until he passed away. The car then went to his son, who then decided to sell it. Now i am the new happy owner of this glorious pi I have been driving the car for a while and has not let me down! the only thing that how really bothered me about this car is rust! it really annoys me knowing how rusty it actually is haha! my original plans were to keep this a all original car, but ideally the car needs to be stripped down and redone. So i have decided to build this into my Dream Triumph! i know its not every ones type of car, but for me a boned Triumph on nice wheels making glorious sounds from the original injection gear ticks all the boxes for me! So the plans are: Strip the car down, remove all the paint, fix the rust, Tidy up all the horrible factory welds/general clean up on the body, remove, then primer the whole car. Put new bushings throughout the car, rebuild all the brakes, remake all the brake lines, modify the sub frame bolts and gearbox cross member to sit higher, fit a Subaru r160 LSD diff, fit Datsun 180b Halfshafts, Get some fortune auto coils overs made up for the front and rear, Get some focus racing fin wheels re lipped to 14x8-14 then paint all the the chassis components. Get the whole body resprayed professionally/ at this stage id like to keep it the factory color. Get all the interior redone so it looks like it did in the 1970s Then it will be building a fast road motor! the main thing is that it will have to be the running the original lucas injection. Theres alot im going to learn from this build, its really one of those builds were for the last few years i have literally zoned out everyday and imagined every little detail about the way i want it to be haha! Im gonna have heaps of questions like Id love to have some tips on welding, whats the best way to remove paint too steel? whats the best way to remove under seal? Heres some pictures. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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triumph...tristan Posted April 2, 2018 Author Share Posted April 2, 2018 So the first job is to strip the car back and to start finding the rust, i went around to all the bubbled bits and grinded them back with a flappy disc. It really amazes me that so much much rust can can be hidden so easily! So i am now confirming that i will go through will my originally plan and ill be stripping this right back to a shell! I have plenty of spare bodys for rust cuts, so now i best get on to repairing it all. Here is some pictures of most of the rust i assume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triumph...tristan Posted April 3, 2018 Author Share Posted April 3, 2018 I have my mind set on two wheels at the moment but im really unsure of what ones ill use yet! I originally got the star sharks re lipped for the car but then i really liked the look of some focus racing fin wheels so i scored my self some of those, they just recently arrived from japan, ill be getting those re lipped soon. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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