Bought myself a TR6
Discussion
Having spent the last year looking for a classic Mustang and getting tired of seeing panel gaps ranging from 1mm at the top of the wing to 10mm at the bottom, I decided to look at something else 
Picked up this TR6, 40km up the road from where I live in Germany. It's a lovely little thing
Due to the Covid-19 restrictions over here you can't just rock up at the local town hall and register it, you have to make an appointment and as such I have had to wait a week and a half to be allowed to register it, which I'm finally doing today!! After all the beautiful weather it's now going to rain for at least another week. Typical!
Picked up this TR6, 40km up the road from where I live in Germany. It's a lovely little thing
Due to the Covid-19 restrictions over here you can't just rock up at the local town hall and register it, you have to make an appointment and as such I have had to wait a week and a half to be allowed to register it, which I'm finally doing today!! After all the beautiful weather it's now going to rain for at least another week. Typical!
Lovely to see so many TR6's on here, I'm really starting to enjoy mine 
Last Friday was great weather over here so we took a trip to Cochem next to the Mosel river. Absolutely lovely and we ended up doing nearly 200kms, my big bald forehead is now a brown crispy mess and Mrs A has told me off, again, for not wearing a hat.
Last Friday was great weather over here so we took a trip to Cochem next to the Mosel river. Absolutely lovely and we ended up doing nearly 200kms, my big bald forehead is now a brown crispy mess and Mrs A has told me off, again, for not wearing a hat.
I'll have a question for you guys tomorrow if I can remember to take a picture of the engine bay later today.
There's a pulley thing that looks like it should have a belt on it, but it hasn't. The car runs fine and everything's great but I have no idea why there appears to be a belt missing.
I'll post a few pictures tomorrow.
There's a pulley thing that looks like it should have a belt on it, but it hasn't. The car runs fine and everything's great but I have no idea why there appears to be a belt missing.
I'll post a few pictures tomorrow.
tapkaJohnD said:
Adenauer said:
I was advised to stay away from the injection ones as they like to go wrong, is that not the case then?
Oh and because carbs are for real men, obviously.
Wrong on both counts, Count Adenauer!Oh and because carbs are for real men, obviously.
The Lucas Pi was developed for the Le Mans winning Jaguars in the 50s, on wartime aviation exprience. It was and still is, highly reliable, and will stay in tune when the hairychested carb boys are fiddling with their chokes all day.
Yes, Triumph made some wrong, cost-cutting decisions, like the fuel pump, powered by a wiper motor which with age has proved unreliable and the lack of any effective swirl pot, but those can be corrected. Worse was the decision not to spend on training dealer staff in what was the first production car with fuel injection. That was the source of the reputation for unreliability, as mechanics fiddled with it.
And the Metering Unit had to be made with high-precision, unlike much to the motor industry at the time and so was costly. When Bosch came out with the cheap JetTronic, primitive fuel injection by comparison, Lucas couldn't sell the system to any other manufacturer. So it was never used again for mass production, but Maserati did, and so did Ford in competition Capris and BMC in racing Minis.
John
Oh and no need for the Count.....
Maybe it's a German thing, but people don't have a good thing to say about the injection systems over here, or at least the 3 or 4 people I spoke to about it didn't. Never mind though, I have my carbs and am happy with them.
Although, if mine has 110bhp it certainly hides them well.
RATATTAK said:
CC Series 104bhp @ 4500rpm
That's what mine is supposed to be, and what it feels like, makes much more sense than some of the 140-150bhp figures.Anyway, it's not about driving fast, it's about the noise, the cramped interior, and the smell when you open the garage.
Oh and anything above about 120kph and I start to feel a smidgen 'vulnerable' driving it.
silentbrown said:
baconsarney said:
Supercharger? If you’re going to modify I’d guess supercharging would give biggest bang for buck and more easily reversible... modifying is a disease
Maybe that's what the OP's missing drivebelt is for!https://classicmotorsports.com/articles/six-shoote...
Pictures of the 'mystery of the missing belt', any ideas?
Yep, I think you're right, thanks for clearing that up
https://www.classicautoair.com/techtalk/wp-content...
https://www.classicautoair.com/techtalk/wp-content...
Just hiding this in here so it doesn't get moved to the video section.
Just 3 minutes of good old fashioned sexism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FageCtKA0g&fb...
Just 3 minutes of good old fashioned sexism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FageCtKA0g&fb...
I often toy with the idea of doing a few upgrades to mine performance wise, the US model on Stromberg carbs really is a bit of a slug and doesn't really rev above 4,000, which is a shame. But then I always stop myself because somewhere in the back of my brain I think it's best to keep it 100% original.
Two more weeks to go until I can wake mine up from the winter sleep and it's registered to drive again (seasonal plates from March to November), and I can't wait.
Two more weeks to go until I can wake mine up from the winter sleep and it's registered to drive again (seasonal plates from March to November), and I can't wait.
If anyone wants to buy a very tidy left hooker, I've decided to sell mine.
After about a year and a half of ownership I've come to realise that I just don't use it often enough (maybe 3 times this entire year). It's too old / uncomfortable for any real longer distances, especially with Mrs Adenauer, and we're not old enough to just use it to go and get an ice cream in Cochem.
I'm going to get myself something much newer that we can actually use for the occasional long weekend in the Alps, etc. Something like a 2017 Mustang.
After about a year and a half of ownership I've come to realise that I just don't use it often enough (maybe 3 times this entire year). It's too old / uncomfortable for any real longer distances, especially with Mrs Adenauer, and we're not old enough to just use it to go and get an ice cream in Cochem.
I'm going to get myself something much newer that we can actually use for the occasional long weekend in the Alps, etc. Something like a 2017 Mustang.
Thanks Hilly.
Did it for a few reasons really, but the main one was that the usability of the TR6 was a bit limited. We want something we can take on a proper tour to the Alps or through Spain, and that really wouldn't have been an option in the TR6. Fine for popping to Cochem for an ice cream but that's about it really.
Another was the V8 aspect, it was an itch I had to scratch.
Did it for a few reasons really, but the main one was that the usability of the TR6 was a bit limited. We want something we can take on a proper tour to the Alps or through Spain, and that really wouldn't have been an option in the TR6. Fine for popping to Cochem for an ice cream but that's about it really.
Another was the V8 aspect, it was an itch I had to scratch.
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