Originally posted by crowMAW
Detuned is too kind...castrated is more like it.
We got 109hp...everyone else got 150hp.
And of course it had reliability problems...Lucas made the injection!
ROFL Crow! I knew there was a reason I favoured German cars and K-Jetronic.
Only 109bhp for the TR6? Hold on a sec... hp or bhp? The measurements here are done in bhp, and yes, 150bhp was the TR6 engine's rating. In the saloon car, I think it was less. But from 1974 (OPEC oil crisis) the TR6 got 125bhp in UK tune. The real castration came with the next model - the TR7. It had the four cylinder engine, 1.8 litres - as used in the Triumph Dolomite. Talk about lame duck.
Some pics from this year's Reading & Wokingham showHere are those Stags
Flyingaround - I think this was a Bristol
These next two are Vauxhalls (later bought by GM) from the 1950s. Back then, they liked to make their cars look American. How did they succeed? You be the judge.


Oil leaks? I'll give you oil leaks - LOL - This is a P4 Rover 105R. I had never heard of this variant until this month when I took the picture. My father had had a couple
like this - a Rover 90 and a Rover 100... and they positively exuded oil on to the garage floor - drove my Mum mad. She made dad put down oil pans filled with sawdust.

In the 1950s, Ford as well as Vauxhall gave their cars an American flavour. This is a Consul convertible, c1960.

My favourite car at the show: 1968 Daimler 2.5 V8 - aka "Daimler Jaguar". My father had one of these, and my greatest regret is that I wasn't old enough to drive in the time he had it (1967-1970).
