Beautifully restored, 200hp Triumph TR6 for sale
The are great classic sports cars - and then there are great classic sports cars
We’ve all watched enough episodes of Grand Designs or read enough Readers’ Cars threads - or gulped at enough restomod prices - to know that renovations and restorations always go over budget. More money, more time, more effort than expected. Always. Even with so many having gone before and suffered a similar fate. Typically these things are worth the stress - it’s why we undertake the projects in the first place - though sometimes it would be nice to avoid just some of the hassle.
This Triumph TR6 has been restored. A little while ago now, in 2012, though still looking wonderful for the work. We mention the budget thing because, well, how much would you spend to get a TR6 back to its best? Maybe forty or fifty grand? 60 at a push? Well, this one had more than £90,000 spent in 2012 - or almost £130k in today’s money - to make it this spectacular. The asking price is now less than half that resto cost. Hard not to be a bit interested, right?
Furthermore, with every new detail of the work undertaken comes more understanding of that final bill. Whoever commissioned the build wanted the very best for every aspect of this Triumph, and was obviously willing to pay. The 2.6-litre straight six now runs triple Weber 45s, a Piper cam and a Phoenix exhaust, among other things, for more than 200hp. The gearbox internals have been upgraded to Stag spec, and power reaches the rear through better driveshafts and a Quaife diff.
That’s really just the start, too. On top of a full body restoration (which now features additional bracing, a removable roll cage and a welded rear bulkhead), there are custom Ohlins dampers - imagine the invoice for those! - bespoke leather seats, AP Racing brakes, an entirely new dash, mohair hood, LED lights… the works. It probably strays into restomod territory itself now, given how much better to drive it would be versus an untouched TR6, but we won’t say that again for fear of pushing the price up.
The ad doesn’t mention the state this UK-supplied, RHD Triumph was in before the work, or why it’s being moved on now; doesn’t really matter, though it’s nice to know sometimes. Nevertheless, it looks an incredible opportunity for a new owner; given the look of this thing, it’s hardly covered mega miles since its overhaul. And what an experience it promises to be: straight six howling, wind in the hair, chassis not crumbling to pieces…
There’s a price to pay for that ability against normal TR6s, of course, this one’s £42,950 sticker about twice that of the others on PH. Given how much it would cost to replicate, however - to say nothing of the time involved, just as importantly - the value on offer is plain to see. As a classic, very pretty British roadster with straight-six power, it’s easy even to see the TR6 as a cut-price E-Type. Either way, someone loved this old Triumph enough to spend the very best part of £100,000 on it; now’s your chance to move in and appreciate what they’ve done with the place.
Never really been interested in a TR6… until now.
Although I did pop into TR Enterprises at Blidworth in Notts a time or two when I was a rural cop…
On the face of it seems very good value for money and should be good for a long time without further work other than servicing and consumables.
I like the shorter more classic? but with IRS TR models like the TR260 or TR4 or TR5 models
specially with a V8 swap,, saw some nicer and great built V8 for the same or less money over the years, sadly for me in NL mostly RHD, but those are tempting
Here's mine - it is a fantastic car to own and drive. A real hairy chested thumper. Longing for the sun to come back
From summer 82, to circa 1989 ( along with MK1 3 Litre Capris ) lived and breathed the TR-6. I probably owned at least 12 of them.
Had so many adventures with them, but way too detailed for here. One abiding memory is spinning my first road going one, a rusty ( as they All were ) Saffron K registered one in Parliament Square late one wet eve, en route home from the Chelsea Cruise. When a TR-6 let’s go in the wet, it’s near impossible to catch, the steering is woefully slow and when the throttle is backed off, the rear wheels instantly go from negative to positive camber.
Drive one quickly down a bumpy road and the thing is all over the road, scuttle shake and a it’s woefully flexible chassis are so obvious. As much as I have very fond memories, no TR-6 is worth half of this one’s asking price…..
The Damson H registered one is seen here in Chingford June 82. I swapped it for my stoved in rear 1/4 MK1 3 Litre Capri, at a cowboy garage in Croydon. They saw me coming a mile away, as the 6 had a chassis that was as bent as a banana. I managed to contact the car’s very posh previous owner who told me about the heavy crash that it had been in. I sold it about 3 weeks later for circa £600 quid to a good pal, who body off restored it and sadly colour changed it to dark blue.
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