1974 Triumph TR6: Regular Car Reviews 

I work as cashier at a grocery store. About a year ago I was working a closing shift as a bagger and I had walked and elderly gentleman out to his car and this was what he had. A blue 1977 TR6 with a factory hard top. His wife was sitting in the passenger seat quietly reading through a book. The early florida spring night air blew coolly and softly through the air, and I asked the man how long he had the car and where he got it. As he popped the trunk he told me that he had ordered it in 1977 after he got a promotion at the stock brokering firm he worked for in Jacksonville. He relayed to me in perfect detail the day and time when he got the phone call to come down to the docks to pick it up. He told me how his wife drove him down in the families sedan and how he watched it being unloaded from the ship. He said it was like love at first sight. The car has now (at the time i saw him) some 100,000 miles on it and it still looks as fresh as it was when it was new. The man told me he was in his 80s but still did most of the routine maintenance himself and how his grandson helped him out on the more complicated repairs. It’s stories like this that’s attract me to older cars, because sometimes the best part about these cars is you can always tell when the car has a story, and you feel privelaged to be a part of and to continue that story so that more people can know about it,

"we think you drive around in these and classic minis like you think we drive around in mustangs and silverados" SO. ACCURATE. "But really its just hondas for both of us" Also 100% accurate

Q: Why do the British drink warm beer? A: Our refrigerators are made by Lucas

that under inflated tire is running me into the wall

So many Lucas jokes: This vehicle has the three position Lucas switch - Dim, Flicker and Off.

There’s an E Type in that garage under a wrap, I hope you managed to wrangle a drive in that thing as well.

Tr6 was always called Tr6 in both UK and US. Tr5 of UK was equipped with Lucas fuel injection on 2.5 inline 6. Tr250 was US only version of Tr5, equipped with twin stromberg carbs with emission control device. You are confusing Tr5 and Tr6.

"I felt like a good person, arriving to be thanked for something. People wave at you." So good.

3:03 When someone asks me why I tilt to one side when preparing a fart.

In James May's words. The only roadster bloke can drive and still keep his manhood.

The TR5 was called the TR250 in the US. TR6 was the same in the UK and US.

If I were to imagine what "Cool Dad's" weekend fun car was, this is absolutely a contender.

You’re all confused in the beginning. TR6 is TR6 everywhere. The USA TR250 is a UK spec TR5 without the “petrol injection”.

“For the queen ! Coventry !” This is why I’ve been following Mr. Regular for so long, basically we both share the same condition, spewing diarrhea adjectives and angry verbs upon the unsuspecting populace. You’re doing the lords work Mr. Regular, keep it up good sir ! GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

"Nope. It's Hondas for the both of us" hahahahahaha I laughed way too hard at that 😂

I owe much of my love for cars to this thing. When my Mom learned to drive her brother hatched a plot to get the family car all to himself by convincing her Dad to swap the autotragic LTD for a TR6. Long story short: Ma had none of it and learned stick anyway, proceeding to dust many a MG in the process. The triumph was long gone before I came along, but Mom's stories about it, and her lasting affinity for the manual transmission right up until her knees couldn't handle the heavy clutch in her Ramcharger were a huge impression.

0:00 Me every morning

Perfect timing for me, just sat down with my buttered toast with MARMITE

The modern TR7 was very cool but the TR6 is my favorite it looks angry it looks serious , what a lovely bygone era of cars this was .

I love this car but the Alfa outside at 11:40 is like having that hot girl you knew from school walk past on the street as you hold your wife hand. Yep I got caught looking and now I can go out the house any more!

"Brakes feel wooden", Going to knoebels, reminds me to ride the Phoenix!

"Nope... it's Hondas for both of us". Honest world traveller Mr. Regular right there :-)

5am in the Midwest damn.. used to be between 3 and 4 month from now it'll be breakfast with rcr

I love coming home from a long night shift and finding a fresh new video from you...

bruh. TR250 is the equivalent to the tr5, which was made from 1967 until 1968. That is a real tr6

the c7 doesnt have a 7 speed it has a 3 speed with a granny low and a triple overdrive

YES FINALLY, SOMETHING I CAN SHOW MY DAD WITHOUT GETTING THE DISAPPOINTMENT FACE.

when i was a kid in the early 2000s i got a really detailed 1/18 tr6 as a Christmas gift and thought it was weird having a father that owned many late 60s early 70s muscle cars camaros and mopars to get me somthing diggrent to play with ...but i thought this little British sports car was the coolest having irs and a strait 6 ..i was use to strait axle and big v8 power ..

I was in college when I drove my first TR6. I had a friend who had one and loved it. Finally came across one on a car lot. It was in rough condition but drive-able, and after a test drive I was hooked. Unfortunately my parents weren't as enamored and I stayed in my trusty Ford XL for another year, after which they got me a used LTD to go to grad school. Moved to NW Arkansas where you have twisty, mountainous roads just made for cars like MGs and TR6s. As fate would have it, I ended up with a roommate who drove a TR6! Better yet, he didn't hesitate to pitch me the keys and let me take it out for hours at at time. I got to do some real driving in the hills and with the roof down, it was an experience I've never forgotten. Yeah, I'm a Boomer of grandad age now but I'd give willingly give my left nut for a refurbished TR6.

TR250 just sounds like a motorcycle

One of my closest friend from LOU U , NC had this very car when we were in college.. She passed away over a week ago.. I can see her smiling face, long blonde hair blowing in the wind, blue twinkling eyes as she drove around campus .. Will miss you Elizabeth " Libby " Coleman ..

The UK was making the TR6, Japan was making the Celica, and we were making... The Gremlin... Funny enough this and the Celica aren't only my 2 favorite cars from the early 70's they're outright 2 of my favorite cars

i thought it was a law to drive one of those things you need a newspaper boy cap and wool scarf. Pipe optional

When I first saw the thumb nail , I for some reason instantly thought about will smith saying "ohh that's hot"

I bought a TR6 new, in 1976. It was a great car, that I loved dearly. It was stolen while I was in Fenway Park watching the Red Sox beat the Yankees. I was heartbroken. Well it took me 40 years or so, before I was able to buy another 1976 TR 6. I love this one as much as my prior one. Have had to spend many $$$ for repairs, but its all worth it.

I always viewed cars like this as that friend who always smiles when they look at you and with that you know everything will be alright

“Breaking is wooden, you do stop, it just doesn’t have any bite.” 👀...Connecticut/New York still didn’t change half those 55 mph zones to 65 after the oil issue.

I had a '74 TR6; I bought it on Ebay when I was deployed in the middle east back in 2003 -- I put in a bid in when I was on on R&R, drunk on rot gut bathtub swill. Later that day I found out that I actually "won" it. I had it shipped to my mothers place; I still had about 6 months left on my orders and I didn't see it until the following April. I don't know what I was thinking but I decided to take a victory lap and drove it all the way from Corpus Christi, TX all the way to Wilmington, NC to see a girl I had been exchanging letters with -- I literally rolled into the hotel parking lot when the car died. As luck would have it, that very weekend there was a British Car club meet up in the parking lot at the hotel across the street. A guy there helped me nurse my car back to health and after a 3 week stay there, I drove all the way back only to have my brakes fail on a bridge on the way back. I practically coasted the whole way home. It never ran after that, I sold it to go to grad school about 4 years later. Not sure if I regret it, but 10 years later I have a '79 Spitfire sitting on blocks in my carport reminding me of the heartache.

Sharp car. Love the looks of the TR6s and 7s

"... in the time it took for the second doctor to become the fourth one ..." One of the best rcr videos ever with a "doctor who" reference to boot? Can it be? Thanks for this video. It was brilliant.

Oh TR6 How Do I Love You... First Classic I ever got my butt in.

I'm British & the TR6 is still an achingly cool car. Great review guys 👍

Not once did I hear the sound this magnificent car makes. My next door neighbour had one and you would hear that lovely motor and exhaust as it wound around the bends before finally appearing and coming to a landing. This was in the 70s kid. Your take of the 70's is almost always dead wrong but then again you weren't even born yet were you?

Had a UK-spec 1969 model tuned to 165 bhp, great tail-squatting, tire-squealing fun, yet also classy and docile when called for :-)

5:38 that's a really nice big rig. pls review that.

I have been waiting for this video for too long. Thank you.

My friend's dad had a red TR6 on the island of Jersey (Channel Islands). Riding in it was amazing, even going 40 (which is the highest speed limit on the island) was exciting.

Probably the best birthday present I could have ever asked for. Thank you Mr. Regular

Owned TR3A, TR4 and TR4A (independent rear suspension) and thought they were all great cars, all bought used never could afford new. The TR5s and TR6s in Britain in the early 1970s were still too costly for my budget and now....forget it! But one of my best drives ever was at night in the TR3 coming back from watching the RAC Rally cars thundering along tiny forest tracks at blinding speeds in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland (wild and woolly country), I found myself moving along very briskly on tiny country roads, uphill and down dale, in a sweeping rythm of surefootedness and speed. That car, agricultural though it was in it's 4 cylinder motor and very basic suspension, performed like a star that night, never forgot it!

If Charles Bukowski and Hunter S. Thompson had procreated, you would be their car geeking love child. I love gonzo journalism!

My grandpa had one of these. He found it in a field, like one does in upstate NY, in pretty rough shape. I think he found it in the late 80's or early 90's. The engine was still good and the body was salvageable. The interior was gone. At some point, someone replaced the seats with a pair taken out of a small airplane. No idea how, or why. Just something something upstate NY. He bought it off the people who owned the land (they didn't even know it was there) and spent years fixing this thing up in his garage. There was this chain hanging from the garage ceiling from when he had to lift the engine out of this thing. But anyways, he restored it down to every little detail and would take me with him on back-road joyrides when I was a kid. It was one of the the best things about going to visit. Still wish he didn't have to sell it before he passed. His TR6 got me interested in cars in the first place because it was so different from anything I had seen before. Anyway, if anyone bought a cherry red TR6 off an old guy in Big Flats you take good care of that car.

I've had three of them. You have to do something about handling. Koni's on the front, three quarter valves on the rear. 205 70 15 Michelin radials. Heat shield, cam, and exhaust. Electronic ignition. It's like flying a Cessna, you have to maintain your air speed. Pick roads that match your car.

On any piston engine the air-fuel mixture comes to a screeching halt in the combustion chamber so whether after that it must go left, right, forward or aft doesn't matter at all in terms of mass flow losses. The problem with the reverse flow heads is the intake and exhaust ports have to occupy the same space and they suffer for it.

Another one of my favourites. "COVENTRY!" Haha.

1977 I moved into my Uncle's home in Beverly Hills, Coldwater canyon when I was 15, he got me the sweetest TR6 in LA, we looked at 20 of them, he had a 1967 AC Cobra 427 a real one. It was a dream a magical time in my life. Mullholland drive, Coldwater canyon, University High school, The coast highway, I had the world by the tail.

Best review in a long time. I like hearing the history of the car and the philosophy of why the car was built

As a British person who once owned a Triumph 2.5 PI with Lucas injection I have to say I'd take the carbs every time. Like the TR6/250 however, good if you can get the oily gubbins sorted out. Magnet for posh totty as well, bet you'd get pick up nice bit of crumpet in that.

Love the design of those triumphs!!

This is the car that got me into cars. Thank you rcr, just don't let the prices go up.

I owned this car back when. The most fun to drive car I ever had.

Lucas; The prince of darkness. Left Us Cold And Strandard.

You know it’s a British car from the ‘70s when you’re afraid to touch the dashboard for fear of getting splinters. It looks like they were rationing sandpaper tighter than they rationed petrol.

Bought my 74 New in August of 1974 still have to this day Though I have passed it on to my son I still get to maintain original owner Great to finally see a review after 45 years.

Dude, you make my favorite content on the internet. Keep it up!

People can say what they like, ive.I had a lot of cars come through my life but I would never part with my TR6

Lucas Electric; Prince of Darkness, inventor of the short circuit

I love these old triumphs ( and MG's) thank you

Just to be clear, despite my previously written critiques, this video, as all your videos I've seen, is awesome. Thank you.

Triumph TR6 was probably the most macho small roadster, it's no 'hairdressers' car like an MG B or a MX-5 a big 'bloke' can drive this and nobody doubts his masculinity with that punched up face and cut off rear end. This and the Staaaaaag were working class heroes (That is when they were working)

sew fahunseh.

I had a 1980 TR8 roadster, with the 3.5 l Buick/Rover V8. It had been heavily tinkered with by the previous owner, and passed everything but the gas station. My northern Canadian ownership , prompted storage for at least five months, and the ubiquitous wait for the winter sand and gravel to be removed from the streets prior to driving in the spring, resulted in maybe four to five months of actual driving. It was 1988, and to this day, was my favourite car. It smelled of gasoline and there was a slight mustiness when the top was up. Off the line, the car surprised a few Mustang 5.0 l owners, as like I previously said, the car had been heavily tinkered with. The sound at low rev when pulling into the parking lots on a Friday night, had me opening the bonnet more often than I was driving....all those years ago! I had the car less than two years, with two full winters bookending one full summer, and another half summer at the end, when I sold the car for way more than I paid for it.

Really appreciate the awesome videos! Quite entertaining!

My father keeps telling me stories about how he almost bought one. I finally asked last friday what he bought instead. Is a Plymouth Horizon TC3 next because thats the car he actually bought

You should try driving my friends aluminum head 302 powered tr6

I have no personal affinity for the Triumph, but where you guys shot this brings back two distinct memories. I'm born and raised Poconos for context. At 4:15 you drive past my grandmother's old house in central NJ. She lived there from the early 40s up until 2014 when we had to move her to assisted living in Bethlehem because of dementia. Me being born in 1987 I have nearly 30 years of memories of that property, especially the last 5 years of her ownership where I took care of it most weekends. Second, where you guys did the garage shots is very personal as well. That used to be a Dodge dealership and my grandmother was good friends with the now late owner John. Around 1999 I discovered Dodge Vipers and it became the first car I would be obsessed with. John knew this and would just give me all of the literature he could get on Vipers to satisfy my fanboyism. Memorial Day weekend 2001 he came by my grandmother's and wanted me to go downtown to the dealership to see something. They had brought in a newer 1st gen RT/10 as a loaner for some pharma rep (Pfizer is nearby so the phallic symbolism isn't lost). He took me into that same garage and it was my first upclose look at a Viper. I wasn't old enough to drive, but he let me sit in the damn thing. It was the equivalent of a teenage boy grabbing his first boob. I wasn't legal to drive, let alone knew how to drive stick, so that was completely out of the question but it was enough 14 year old me. I watched this video when you first released it, but I'm just commenting now. Thank you for all that everyone does for this channel. Coming back to this video is a fun trip down memory lane and immediately appreciate it.

Something about the stance on the TR6 is just so righteous. The flared fenders, the way the wheels fit flush, somehow even those 14" wheels look massive on that car. Also tip of the hat to the owner of that particular TR6, he keeps it in lovely condition. Whoever restored that car did a great job.

I love the design of these things, however I always feel like the GT6 would drive better. I can't afford either despite ogling both at a car show yesterday. There was a yellow one.

I got tr6 with a Datsun 240Z straight 6 engine on it,,,, i just plain love it,,,,,,,,,,,,more reliable ,,,,,

That was one of the prettiest cars I have ever seen! Always loved TR6s.

"The brakes feel like a used Huffy mountain bike" I havent been on a mountain bike in like 20 years, but I can feel this notion in my hand as I hear it said.

Not sure what they were thinking when they designed the head but anytime you have hot exhaust manifold right beside the intake it can't be very efficient.

Triumphs were fun cars in their day. as were MGs and Austin Healeys. But then the Mustang came along and America's love affair with British sports cars came to an end. Pony cars and muscle cars became the darlings of America's youth back in the mid-1960 through the early 1970s.

No brakes, no steering, no zip. But holy shiznit, I'd still love one.

my dad had one of these... such a cool car . beautiful

why is 35 amps the "mark of death" for an electrical system?

That car looks so fucking cool and I want one.

The TR6 was my first car, in high school, earned from dish washing money. It was an exciting car to drive and look at! Had an amazing exhaust note. The 15" wheels were huge in those days. One time I raced my friend in his Chevy station wagon. His wagon went around a particular corner just fine. The TR had such lousy grip, I did a 360 into the dirt, unscathed. I will get another someday!

I don't even really care about cars but this guy is just so entertaining

Can we get a 10hr asmr of that leather handbreak gripping shot?

my grandad had a Triumph, but it was NOT A CAR

"Dear Evan Hansen" intro!!!! The little Easter eggs hidden in each episode are the sole reason I have a paid RU-vid subscription

I love the brown puddle in the middle of the garage floor, they told the TR-6 it was going to be filmed and it pissed itself.

This is my favorite car.

Clearly Mr. Regular hasn't been to Florida, every 3rd car is a mustang lmao I was driving down 75 from Tampa to North Port and I lost count at about 30 Mustangs. Similarly where I live in upstate NY, every other vehicle is a pickup truck. So yes, the american stereotypes are indeed true.

A friend's dad gave me a ride in one of these down some English country roads on the way back from cricket practice when I was 10 years old. It had an overdrive switch on top of the gear knob and I remember the steering wheel skipping about in his hands the same way it does in this video. We had an E36 328i at the time so the TR6 wasn't an impressive performance machine to me by any means, but it did give me a taste of the classic British roadster which I experience whenever I get a blast in an MX-5.

enjoyed this very much. It´s not a comercial like many other videos. Thanks from Germany.

@theRomanNick, nice job with Dear Evan Hansen

Joe Lucas, Prince of Darkness.

Hey bud, the TR5 had the fuel injection with the 6 cylinder and a TR4 styled body, we got the TR250. The TR6, a different car, had the 6 cylinder engine with the Zenith Strombergs and a newer body style. You might want to look back at that note.

I remember my Dad taking me to Crown Imports in Saint Petersburg, Florida to buy my new car. The dealer had the last TR-6 on the showroom floor. If I remember correctly it was around $6,000. We ended up buying a British Racing Green Victory Edition TR-7. The cost was $4,995 POE. Great memory! The TR-6 was the better buy but was just a little too expensive.