One For Classic Car Fans.....

[raleighnut]

I've owned a P6, regrettably sold to pay my legal bill post divorce.

I was a very sophisticated car, so much so that it came close be being jet turbine powered, and in many ways was the British DS.

The Trumpets were more conventional, but excellent for all that. The P6 effectively created the small prestige saloon with sporty pretentions market that BMW went on to make a living from, but the Trumpets were no slouches and were lively of engine and chassis for their time and market segment.

Mate of mine had an ex - police 2.5 PI that went well

 

[Ian H]

Hairdressers Car

The hairdresser just down the road has a Porsche with a private plate.

Re the TVR, those strange vents make it look to me as if the doors and bonnet don't fit properly.

 

[FishFright]

Hairdressers Car

For a given value of Hairdresser ..

Way back when my hairdresser entered the RAC Rally in a mk 1 Escort in the hope to finish class. He got some decent result in his class.

 

[Drago]

For a given value of Hairdresser ..

Way back when my hairdresser entered the RAC Rally in a mk 1 Escort in the hope to finish class. He got some decent result in his class.

Hed have done better if he hadn't wasted time giving his co-driver a demi wave.

 

[Profpointy]

P6, larger, comfier, more plush. 2500, smaller, lighter, more sporty.

Sizes very close when I looked it up. Mk1 T2k slightly smaller @ 174" and the Mk2 very slightly slightly longer 183" against the P6 @ 180". Triumph has 3" longer wheelbase.

I'd have said the Triumph was the larger vehicle, but it seems they are very close in size

 

[Pblakeney]

Sizes very close when I looked it up. Mk1 T2k slightly smaller @ 174" and the Mk2 very slightly slightly longer 183" against the P6 @ 180". Triumph has 3" longer wheelbase.

I'd have said the Triumph was the larger vehicle, but it seems they are very close in size

Ignore my previous post.
I was thinking of the P5. A very different beast! 😂

 

[raleighnut]

The hairdresser just down the road has a Porsche with a private plate.

Re the TVR, those strange vents make it look to me as if the doors and bonnet don't fit properly.

Look at the reg number......................I Spose he could be a Vasectomist.

For a given value of Hairdresser ..

Way back when my hairdresser entered the RAC Rally in a mk 1 Escort in the hope to finish class. He got some decent result in his class.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 13th

Triumph 2500

Market Street
Kirkby Stephen
Cumbria

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I’ve been pointed towards this page, from a conversation on Facebook

https://www.paulstriumphherald.co.uk/triumph-2500s-estate-part-one/
(part 2 is also interesting)

 

[biggs682]

I know which one I would prefer and it's not made across the channel

 

[Drago]

Me too, although the Bimmer is made in Graz, Austria.

 

[Pblakeney]

Me too, although the Bimmer is made in Graz, Austria.

Is Austria not across the Channel? 😂

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Is Austria not across the Channel? 😂

Nah, that's France mate, innit.

 

[Drago]

Is Austria not across the Channel? 😂

Its in central Africa, I believe.

TBH I was never a moggie fan. Its so rare removed from Issigonis' actual designed its a real hodge podge. Crudely widened but only after the production tooling had already been made, hence the ridge up the middle. The envisaged flat 4 discarded for an inline. The original clean styling horribly bastardised. It was a real lash up.

 

[Ian H]

Its in central Africa, I believe.

TBH I was never a moggie fan. Its so rare removed from Issigonis' actual designed its a real hodge podge. Crudely widened but only after the production tooling had already been made, hence the ridge up the middle. The envisaged flat 4 discarded for an inline. The original clean styling horribly bastardised. It was a real lash up.

The widening was at Issigonis's insistence.

 

[Drago]

Indeed, he didn't known when to stop tinkering.

The side valve and then the A series engine, cheap suspension in place of independent tortion bar set up, and the slowly evolving dilution of the clean styling weren't his doing and he was jolly unhappy about it.

It ended up as bodged and lashed up mess that only did as well asmit did due to the lack of affordable domestically produced alternative, while the likes of the 2CV remained laser focused on the design brief.