I spend the day with @BMW_Olly's Triumph GT6 as we head into London for Classics & Cake, and a bit of spotting. Facebook: / youtube.adamc3046 Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/adamcanf... Instagram: @adamc3046
I loved this video because it reminded me of being young and having a cool British sports car. It took me back to the early 70s when I got my first car, a 1966 MGB convertible. I now live vicariously through you guys.
The view over the bonnet brings back such memories! I had a white Mk.3 when I lived in London in the 90s and regularly took it out along the M4 to the Heathrow tunnel late at night - wonderful sound from the straight 6 in said tunnel. My mate used to join me in his GT6 Mk.2, so we'd be side by side in the tunnel - what a sound!!! Then back home via a cuppa at the Heston Services. I travelled all over the UK in that car. I later changed it for a Memento Mk.3 with a 2.5 litre engine in it (from a Triumph saloon). That made it into a real long legged touring car.
Nothing like the sound of a triumph,,,,,my tr6 growls when switching gears at 4000. Almost sounds as it inhales as you depress the clutch pedal. So much fun,,,,lol
Thanks Adam for the great video and thanks Olly for keeping her looking good. I'm Stateside with a 72 RotoFlex GT6, a project always in the works. It's nice to see someone else who thinks this car should be driven and not babied.
you brought back a lot of childhood memories back period if I have the car period I would be driving from Boston Massachusetts to Montreal through Vermont and the Grand Island
sorry to be so offtopic but does anybody know of a way to log back into an instagram account..? I stupidly forgot my password. I would love any assistance you can give me!
@Kane Dillon thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im in the hacking process now. Takes a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
Learned to drive on a GT6 in 1986 under my father's tutelage. An extra challenge vis-a-vis regular drivers training (which I later took), due to the manual transmission! SO loud, even on surface streets, but on the highway--yikes. Listening to the radio above that noise probably caused some ear damage! So, although it looked good and holds a place in my heart, can't say I miss it from that standpoint alone. Another annoyance was that it broke down pretty frequently....
I want to know more about this GT6. What has been done to that engine? It sounds amazing!! I want to do that to my TR6. Is there a youtube channel or video that covers the work done to this GT6?
Nice late model GT-6. Mine was a 1968 into which I put the 2.5 liter TR-6 engine, Rajay turbo, and T-50 transmission. I sold it years ago and wish I had kept it. It would out accelerate aPorsche 930 Turbo Carrera but was very hard on rear ends and broke piston ring lands several times. I'm glad to see Olly's running so well.
Olly, there are not many things in life that I regret. Somewhere around 1984 I sold my GT-6 hot rod. There are many times that I regret doing that. That car meant a lot to me now that I look back to my younger days. However, I still have my jacked up 4 wheel drive Camaro V-6 powered yellow 72 Triumph Spitfire on 33'' tires with the boat propeller under it....
Had one. Bought a GT6+ for restoration. Found out they weren't built well. Basically had to refab the body due to rust. Luckily I was in the auto parts business so I had quite a lot of connections and did a lot of my own shop work. I got it back to "factory specs" however I painted the body hunter green. It came out of the factory a canary yellow. Broke even on the sale.
I love the vents on a mk2, will a mk2 bonnet fit on a mk3. Is there much difference between mk2 and mk3 in handling as I finally have enough money to buy one but can't decide.
Mk3 has the rotoflex rear - less sudden snap oversteer as the rear wheel tucks under, as that was a bit of a problem on the earlier cars, made worse by modern tyres not gradually breaking grip, but keeping huge traction until the rear suspension basically folds the wheel under and the tyre loses grip. These cars handle well enough, but they weren’t designed for huge grip, so you need to drive with that in mind or use less grippy tyres to keep that progressive break-away and “dancing down the road” feel, as opposed to “oh-shit-it’s-having-a-tank-slapper-and-now-I’m-in-a-ditch”. 😉
Please please tell me what your exhaust setup is? I've got 6-3-1 headers into dual exhaust and it's nowhere near as loud. Love the sound and love the video.
If you guys didn’t drive on the wrong side of the road I’d live over there and I’d be a bloke. I’d eat fish ‘n’ chips and I’d drive a Jaguar if I could. If not I’d get a Sunbeam Tiger or a GT6 Triumph, I’d get a classy beautiful British girlfriend with a heart of gold and, since they wouldn’t let me have a gun I’d fly around in a Spitfire (the Supermarine/Vickers - not the Triumph) with cannons - you know, just in case. Ohhh 😮 nice MGB!
DDM_Historics Oh right, where is it parked then? The numerous videos I have seen in which Adam goes to your house I don't see it on the driveway. In storage for the winter?
Would it be a crime to remove the stock Triumph engine from a GT-6 (store safely to keep unmolested), and implant a built Jaguar 4.2L turbo inline-6 engine with 6-speed manual?
Re the title, I was really looking forward to this but ............... the opening 5 seconds showing YOU monging-off assured me I'd never get to the end, just way too painful, can't you stack shelves or something???
Consider this....a Triumph Gt-6 has only a 2 liter engine....so where are you feckless jerks generating all of this noise? Simple; it's acoustics....I see it every day; little "four bangers" ; zipping in and out of traffic, with a "megaphone" tail pipe....guess that makes them feel somehow better...but I want to hear the sound of a real engine.....such as a 427 Corvette....now that's power!
