TR7 interest

[paulheritage]

Not sure if anyone else experiencing the same, but over the last few months I'm finding more people than usual taking an interest when I drive my TR7.

At the weekend I had the car at a general classic car show and never known so many people take a photograph of a TR7 before.

Even other TR owners in the TR Register have shown an interest in buying a TR7 as an alternative to their TR3/4 (yes, a TR3 & TR4 owner seriously considered a TR7V8 recently), and a couple of TR6 owners looking.

I've had my DHC at car shows regularly over the last 20 years and very few non-TR people seemed interested, until I took the java green FHC to a show 2 years ago and had a few people come to chat.

Since then I've had a lot more interest, but so much more this year.

Today I was using the red FHC and someone in a proper Mini flashed their lights and came alongside to give the thumbs up.

Just seems to be a growing following.



Cheers Paul,

1976 TR7 2.0 FHC, ACG 2367 - Carmine Red (on the road)
1980 TR7V8 3.9 DHC, Orient Blue (on the road)
1977 TR7V8 4.0 FHC rally car, ACG 35005 - Tahiti Blue (complete, no MOT)
1976 TR7 2.0 FHC, ACG 3115 - Java Green (now sold)

www.TR7.co.uk

[Roy Hankins]

Slowly but surely the TR7s stock is rising. The classic car mags are now far more positive about the TR7, and factually far more accurate than they ever used to be. The FHC is now getting the recognition it's always deserved too. I believe this up turn in fortune for the TR7 has been driven by a few dedicated enthusiasts, mainly from the TR Drivers club(we all no who they are) but I think John Clancy with his dvds and contacts within the classic car media deserve a special mention,well done John and thank you.[:)]

TR7 Coupe KDU 366N
TR7 Sprint ARW 181S

[Spectatohead]

Last summer I took mine to an event that had cars of all types and ages cruising the downtown loop in Vancouver, Washington. Entry was a bag of canned/dry goods donated to a local food bank. I had stopped and was taking pictures of the other cars as they passed by. A guy from a magazine came up and started asking questions about my car and taking pictures he was more knowledgeable than most. He asked if it had the RV8 or a small block Chevy because he had heard it when I was going around the block While we were talking a couple from Mississippi came up. She really wanted her picture taken in the car. So I let her. I never signed a release for the magazine so I guess I never showed up in it.

Jim Clark
'80 TR8
'97 Maxima 5spd

[whitenviro]

The car gets attention every time I have it out. I think the bad press is so old, it doesn't matter to a whole generation of people who never heard it. A survivor is a survivor, bad press or not, so it must be doing something right!

I also think that the price of well kept cars is increasing, based on what I see as asking prices on Craigslist, etc. Not sure what they actually sell for, but a number of well done cars have come and gone in short order. There are still a lot of low end parts cars out there; we may not see the price of good ones really go up until the scrap metal ones are all gone.


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1980 Pageant Blue DHC with removable hardtop.

[Spectatohead]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by whitenviro</i>

, it doesn't matter to a whole generation of people who never heard it.
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I got new tires Monday and the kid putting them on said "Cool car. What is it?" When I told him he said "Who makes it? Never heard of Triumph. Is it a kit car?" He'd heard of Rover when I told him it had the same engine as a Range Rover. He didn't know what it was but he still thought it was cool.

Jim Clark
'80 TR8
'97 Maxima 5spd

[sydney.wedgehead]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by whitenviro</i>

... we may not see the price of good ones really go up until the scrap metal ones are all gone.
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I suspect that's probably true.

Here in Australia, over the last decade, our wedge has improved in value against models such as the 944 and early RX7, but compared to increases in market value for the MGB, TR4s, TR6s and GT6s the wedge still lags, particularly for 4 cylinder examples.

But honestly, we shouldn't care too much about this and just remain firm in our knowledge that we have a better classic sports car than most of the other aforementioned models and revel when the new generation excitedly come up to us on the street ask "is that a Ferrari?"

Owen, aka:
- Marsu (570 posts, last dated 28 Nov 2011)
- omichaelshar (557 posts, last dated 17 Mar 2009)

[claypole1360]

I took mine out for a drive yesterday and when I stopped in the local supermarket car park, a gentleman stopped me and said that he had always loved the shape and wanted one.
The shape, that was initially so controversial -
"OmG they did it to the other side!" -is turning out to be it's greatest attraction.




1978 TR7V8 FHC
1962 Herald Coupe 1200
1989 Peugeot 205 xs
2003 Peugeot 206 GTI
2009 VW Passat

[Workshop Help]

If anyone deserves the credit for the 'rising stock of TR7's', it is all you good people here on THIS forum. Certainly not the media, certainly not the various groups and clubs who for so long heaped damnation on the last of the breed. It has always been 'we few, we happy few, we band of brothers'! (Well, there have been a few sisters thrown in, too, but that's besides the point.) The point is, despite the adversity of being shamed by all, it is we, here and now, who should collectively, inwardly shine and continue our humble, yet noble efforts at proving the yapping dogs wrong.

You, out there, were right all along.

Mildred Hargis

[dursleyman]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Mildred</i>

If anyone deserves the credit for the 'rising stock of TR7's', it is all you good people here on THIS forum. Certainly not the media, certainly not the various groups and clubs who for so long heaped damnation on the last of the breed. It has always been 'we few, we happy few, we band of brothers'! (Well, there have been a few sisters thrown in, too, but that's besides the point.) The point is, despite the adversity of being shamed by all, it is we, here and now, who should collectively, inwardly shine and continue our humble, yet noble efforts at proving the yapping dogs wrong.

You, out there, were right all along.

Mildred Hargis
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Hear, Hear !!

[John Wood]

The TRDC was purely formed by a band of men who felt alienated by the TR register.

TR7 Sprint & TR8

[busheytrader]

Whilst my Wedge was in the drive, one of the neighbour's kids asked his Dad what a "Trumpf" was.

His Dad said he always wanted one back in the day. I reckon anyone under 30 views them as a cool classic car since they weren't around when all the unreliability stories were in the press. Stags probably suffered much the same.

Adam

[manny]

i just glanced at Practical Classic mag ( UK) i guess what was on the cover...70's Cool Wedges...a certain silver TR7 with Bond Bug, 308, elite...



TR7 V8 1982
Reliant Scimitar GTE 6a 78
Kawasaki ZX636R
Piaggio fly 125
RIP Stick 2013

[FI Spyder]

Had my Spider at Home Depot the other day to pick up some lumber for deck rails. A fellow with German accent said "Nice car, you don't see those around much any more". He said "In Europe, every other car used to be a Triumph". An exaggeration but the hyperbole was making the point of the scarcity of them around now. When I went down to Victoria a few weeks ago I was coming out A&W a guy made a "nice car" comment as he went by. A few days ago coming out of a different A&W (I hardly ever go there, honest) a guy wanted to know if the Spider had the V-6 in it. I said no just a four, the TR8's had the V-8. "Nice car" he said. You just have to get used to people admiring the car. It's almost embarrassing. [:I]



- - -TR7 Spider - - - 1978 Spitfire- - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

[Stevie P]

Took mine to work yesterday.

A guy in the petrol station said "I like your TVR"!

Then two guys at the office said they loved them as kids and hadn't seen one for ages.

Steve

[supercass]

<i><b>[quote] You just have to get used to people admiring the car. It's almost embarrassing.</b></i>

Curiously enough it wasn't that much different when the car was just a few years old. When mine was still relatively new I had to face small queues of admirers (admiring the car not me) upon returning to it after shopping etc. supercass