Triumph Sports Owners Association
Queensland.inc

Now. Every one has their own special way of doing things. I tend to excel at really crazy ways of doing things mostly because I'm always looking for a quickest way out.

Secondly I would not recommend trying this at home, all the usual safety warnings and legal indemnities etc etc etc

Although I did do it at home

This book by Roger Williams follows his earlier work entitled “How to restore Triumph TR7 & 8”.  Both books are published by Veloce Publishing and for anyone who owns one of these Triumphs the pair are a “must have” for your library.  The “How to improve” volume is a logical follow up to the first volume given that these TR’s have been subject to more modification and change than any of the TR’s that preceded them.  The reasons for that being the case are fairly complicated and would probably be the subject of a separate magazine article but put simply it has much to do with the deteriorating state of the Leyland corporate body, the industrial unrest at the time and the market uncertainty in the main market area, namely, the United States.  This was a combination of circumstances that earlier TR’s didn’t have as an influence on their design, production and marketing and it shows in the different history of the early TR’s and the last TR’s.

Stag Restoration Project; or, why would you?

As members of a sporting car club, we are no strangers to misty-eyed enthusiasm driving (sorry about the pun) individuals to restore all manner of vehicles. Sometimes there's the utterance of, "Wow!" in complete awe at the breathtaking result. At other times it's "Why would you bother?" As an example, I have a friend who honestly believes his HQ Belmont is a classic car (his description). I would never be so condescending as to tell him that his mass produced, bottom of the range, spectacularly unspectacular pleb-mobile was anything but classic. He believes it is and he loves it.

After much effort to gather a few good men/women and their cars to attend the Sunday event, only Harry Bird [Stag] and his grandson Jordan, Eric Burgaty [navigator and my TR4] took off for a very early drive in the verrryy chilly morning to Aratula by 7.30 a.m., for the drive up through the “GAP” together.

Jordan wanted to take the Spicer’s Gap route but since we had just washed both cars for the show and shine competition he was overruled.  Besides we knew the EH club would need a helping tow to get over the big hump ahead.  We left the Mustangs at Aratula still catching their breath for their big drive ahead.