Loved your post of your wonderfully restored Triumph 2000 with power steering. My Dad use to drive around in Ford Popular deluxe when I was a boy growing up in Ellesmere Port in early 2960's. My Uncle Bob & Auntie Lilian drove around in a Triumph Dolomite? I loved sitting in the back seat it was so luxurious as compared to my Dad's car. Fast forward to 2003, when I had the opportunity to buy my very own 1977 November 23, first registered Triumph 2000TC. Oh the joy! I fitted power steering, electronic ignition. Fourteen inch "S" wheels & a complete respray & paint job in original Inca Yellow. Front seats were professionally reupholstered to boot. I'm the third proud owner with a complete service history. Now she is getting a complete engine rebuild & driving train update too. Like you, I love my Triumph. I Get so much pleasure when driving, I have a smile from ear to year.
If it was my relatives car I'd keep it in exactly the same way I remembered it from my childhood. Don't change the headlining and put all the original parts back on. I'd love to get the mk3 ford cortina 2000E my dad had, reg RDD 596M, right down to the cigarette burn that it had on the drivers seat. Thankfully my mum and dad are still very much with us. Also very much love reading the mag.
I remember seeing in Practical Classics when you retrieved this car. I love the big Triumphs and I hope to get one for myself sometime in the not too distant future. I want an estate though. The sound of all that six-cylinder goodness pulling like a train is almost reason enough by itself to want one! Good call on the headlining by the way, things like that are important!
Fantastic. Very few people are fortunate to have the car of their childhood still in existence. My dad had the ubiquitous Austin 1100 and then a Hillman (Hunter) GT then a Hunter GL estate. All long gone, which is a big shame as I would have loved to have still had them.
I remember an Italian night club owner that had a famous place on Princess st in the centre of Manchester telling me he was the first person in Manchester that bought a Triumph 2000.
My Mum had a 2000 in BRG. Not sure if that's what Triumph called it but still... The first car I remember of hers was a white Herald, followed by a short lived Stag, then the long lived 2000. She kept a couple of short concrete fence posts in the boot to improve handling. She made a cover for them from an old tartan travel blanket so they looked nice sitting there next to the week's shopping.
Thanks for the memory. Because my tale is very similar, though unfortunately the Triumph 2000 LTB406K, I grew up with was stolen during restoration. And as you can probably tell remembering the registration has become a bitter pill to swallow to her demise Again thanks for bringing the memory to the fore
I used to hate them. ......until I saw a Stag. Then it all made sense. They put the Stag front onto the Triumph 2000Mk1. it looks great as a whole design.
Remember my grandads Morris marina with the smell of condor pipe tobacco smell . Sat in the back with the window down and my grandad with his pipe in his mouth driving us somewhere. Brilliant memories.
Wow. An impressive bloke, your grandfather. Tell us his name. But with all his accomplishments in physics, you would think that he might at least have put "go-faster" stripes on his Triumph.
Awww - what a lovely story, cheers for being so open and honest. I have my own family story with Triumph - although my fatherly heirloom is a Vauxhall Royale… …I think I’ll take your lead and actually do some YT videos - my kids have no clue about the emotional attachment we of a certain vintage attach to cars. Maybe it exists already - a RU-vid channel based on “my Dad’s car(s)”? A celebration of the unexceptional, but real motoring of the 50s through 90s?
My sons never forgave me for selling our 2500S manual o/d ... They came home from hospital in it after being born and were hoping to learn to drive in it.
Mk 2 Triumph 2000 was a fabulous motor. What would be considered a Bank Manager or business man's car. Your's is far too special to change much. I understand your reluctance to restore the headliner. I don't think you'll ever do it! Thanks for sharing this treat.
Lovely story, I had a pi version looked just like this except the wheels and seats. I'm on the side of your gran - I'm not a fan of those front seats, but hey it's your car..
Well, I can honestly say that "My Dad had one of those",(BPG388H). Lovely car, but I am with Grandma, awful seats, steering wheel and alloy wheels. Put the originals back. You know you want to!
