Interesting Car and Classic Feature on Triumph cars

[Ray Singh]

I found this magazine feature by Chris Pollit strangely satisfying and it embodied why i love classic cars. It made the times I have been broken down in the cold and rain, or changing the timing belt in the cold, all worth it.

Take a look here https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/magazine/triumph-b...

Chris does an amazing job of summing up the feeling of being in the barn and opening the parts boxes that have been sitting there for 40 years.

[aeropilot]

Interesting, although the presenter did start to grate by about half way through......

Those complete Triumphs were in a sorry state, and really were parts cars.....with that level of corrosion. My old man had an early 2000 estate Mk.2 in the late 70's and replaced it with a 2500S estate and the 2500S was rotten......used to crab down the road, as the inner sill structure/floorpans and bottom of B pillar had dissolved....!
Not an easy car to repair, even back then. The white S estate was interesting as it had a rear wiper fitted, which is an interesting DIY mod.

If that 2.5Pi (which wasn't an early one as it was L-reg ) is equally rotten, that would be the one to rebuild using that service shell...which is an incredible find!

There's a few thousand quids worth of NOS parts there by the look of it

[waynecyclist]

Really interesting find, as posted the complete cars are really only parts cars.

[geeman237]

The unused body shell would be interesting to see. From the look of it, it certainly had surface rust. I had a Triumph 2500S estate back in the late 90's, white manual OD, but boy did it have rust and that's why I had to sell it.....loved it though.

It will be a herculean effort to go through and catalogue everything and I bet there are some rare parts hidden in there.

[Panamax]

The tin-worm is never kind to cars of that era. They were really built to be thrown away after 3 years/3,000 miles. Now we've all got used to 10 years/100,000 miles as the starting point. After all, when did you last see a rusty car on the road?

[Ray Singh]

The collection is being catalogued and all the parts are being listed here for sale:

https://www.monktonsclassiccarparts.com/