RE: Triumph Stag: Spotted

RE: Triumph Stag: Spotted

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vixen1700

22,669 posts

269 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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This advert!

I can remember things about cars from the 1970s, but forget everyday things from last week. hehe

Miserablegit

4,013 posts

108 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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P5BNij

15,770 posts

105 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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Amazing to think they've been around for almost fifty years, with a very high survival rate compared to most classics, something like 9,000 worldwide from a build total of only 25,000 or so. There are about half a dozen of them round here, usually only seen in the Summer months but very welcome all the same.

gt6

1,422 posts

184 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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The sound of these belies the small size of the V8, probably my favourite burble of any car

WJNB

2,637 posts

160 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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From the side not the most elegant but that's the best colour ever & thank goodness for the black & white number plates. Black & yellow would look tacky & entirely at odds with the black & red bodywork & hood.
Trust good old BL to make such a cock-up of it though. To think Great Britain once built cars to be proud of.

bobtail4x4

3,701 posts

108 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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I liked Triumph Snags as they were known, but dont like rust, so bought a Scimitar GTC, about half the price.


anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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bobtail4x4 said:
I liked Triumph Snags as they were known, but dont like rust, so bought a Scimitar GTC, about half the price.
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Don't buy any 70s car then because they all rotted out from here and abroad.

Equus

16,770 posts

100 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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Raygun said:
bobtail4x4 said:
I liked Triumph Snags as they were known, but dont like rust, so bought a Scimitar GTC, about half the price.
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Don't buy any 70s car then because they all rotted out from here and abroad.
yes Scimitars are notorious for their rusty fibreglass, of course.

blade7

11,311 posts

215 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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bobtail4x4 said:
I liked Triumph Snags as they were known, but dont like rust, so bought a Scimitar GTC, about half the price.
Keep a fire extinguisher handy...

Argybargy

247 posts

181 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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vixen1700 said:


This advert!

I can remember things about cars from the 1970s, but forget everyday things from last week. hehe
Thankyou for sharing. The copy seems to suggest a power output of 127bhp - I thought they had 145?

The period copy is amusing - celebrating the 'famous' warning light cluster is a dubious boast....

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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Equus said:
Raygun said:
bobtail4x4 said:
I liked Triumph Snags as they were known, but dont like rust, so bought a Scimitar GTC, about half the price.
]
Don't buy any 70s car then because they all rotted out from here and abroad.
yes Scimitars are notorious for their rusty fibreglass, of course.
Did they make a convertible Scimitar in the 70s then?

bobtail4x4

3,701 posts

108 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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Raygun said:
Equus said:
Raygun said:
bobtail4x4 said:
I liked Triumph Snags as they were known, but dont like rust, so bought a Scimitar GTC, about half the price.
]
Don't buy any 70s car then because they all rotted out from here and abroad.
yes Scimitars are notorious for their rusty fibreglass, of course.
Did they make a convertible Scimitar in the 70s then?
technically yes, the prototype was finished in 1978, the main run of production cars were claimed to be built in jan 1980, I doublt they could build that many in a month, so lots must have been built late 79.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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bobtail4x4 said:
I liked Triumph Snags as they were known, but dont like rust, so bought a Scimitar GTC, about half the price.

But the Stag had a V8 and looked lovely.

Peppka

107 posts

189 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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The Stag V8 was a really crap engine a lot of Stags had Rover V8's dropped in them during the 80's which was far better and certainly more reliable. In '77 I had a Truimph 2.5 PI saloon with a TR5/6 engine with the MkII fuel injection system that while being only 2.5 litre was 156 BHP, a simple pushrod six, reliable and being long stoke would pull like a train from 1000 rpm in top. I once drove from Cambridge to Bath early morning and never dropped out of top only used the OD switch on the gear stick, ran it on Michelin XAS tyres and Duckhams 20/50 changed every 3000 miles. Petrol filter was the same as one for a Massey Ferguson 135 tractor.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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I was watching this from Clarkson just the other week....

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 22nd October 2018
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Peppka said:
The Stag V8 was a really crap engine a lot of Stags had Rover V8's dropped in them during the 80's which was far better and certainly more reliable.
Do you want another pint?

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 22nd October 2018
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bobtail4x4 said:
technically yes, the prototype was finished in 1978, the main run of production cars were claimed to be built in jan 1980, I doublt they could build that many in a month, so lots must have been built late 79.
But he couldn't of bought one in the 70s?

TopTrump

3,218 posts

173 months

Monday 22nd October 2018
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yonex said:
But the Stag had a V8 and looked lovely.
tttish thing to say. I like the Scimiters too.

Maldini35

2,913 posts

187 months

Monday 22nd October 2018
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I can see why the Stag has a strong following but for some reason they never quite excited me.
A mate's dad had a purple T bar when I was a kid and occasionally did the school run but even then it didn't grab me.
They have all the right ingredients so I've no idea why. Weird.
Despite my indifference I'm glad plenty of folk do love them and keep them going.



Triumph Man

8,670 posts

167 months

Monday 22nd October 2018
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Argybargy said:
vixen1700 said:


This advert!

I can remember things about cars from the 1970s, but forget everyday things from last week. hehe
Thankyou for sharing. The copy seems to suggest a power output of 127bhp - I thought they had 145?

The period copy is amusing - celebrating the 'famous' warning light cluster is a dubious boast....
Hey I used to like the "pie chart" in my old 2000 - even though the fuel light was always on and the choke light worked for about a week.