Triumph Stag a 1976 brochure review 

I've had my 1975 Stag for nearly 10 years now. Properly maintained and serviced, and parts renewed where needed as they are around 50 years old, they make great classic cars and offer a lot of bangs for the buck. Beautifully styled by Michelotti, with a great sounding V8 engine, decent performance and good handling and ride, plus hard-top, soft-top and open roof with its distinctive T Bar. The Stag is not an out-and-out sports car like, say, its stablemate the TR6; compared to the TR6 it is a sophisticated grand tourer offering much more room and comfort but with pretty similiar performance. Most of the issues with the Triumph V8 engine (only ever fitted in the Stag but 'half' of it is the Slant 4 engine found in other Triumphs and Saabs) were down to poor manufacturing quality standards at the time. Properly assembled and maintained the design works fine, as most Stags can demonstrate today. Thanks for covering the Triumph Stag and, for once, not dwelling on all of its problems back in the day. IF they had developed it and built it properly, it would have sold a lot more than 26,000 units. But BL was a state-owned, cash strapped, strike ridden, badly managed basket case of a business, with production spread across different sites (e.g. Stag bodies in Speke, assembly in Coventry). Amazing any got made and worked at all!

Interesting that so many survive despite the horror stories I heard about them in the 80's ! I like them , a friend's Uncle had one back in my schooldays... his original engine was actually great ... until it fell through the bottom of the car and was replaced with a Rover V8 😊

I have had the fortune of spotting two of these vehicles near my abode in upstate New York. The one I feature was owned nearby, and while being serviced, took photos of it. The rear license plate reads #LrdLucas, which is well known because of British Leyland. It is because of channels like yours that I spot a Triumph Stag in the wild!

I worked in two garages during the seventies and early eighties not a single problem with any of them because they were serviced , except rust holes , and usual maintenance, the problem was not checking the water level properly a filler plug not the rad cap , and people filling with tap water , instead of coolant 50% no brainer as they say , most stags are have rebuilt engines well sorted with header tank which is gravity fed ,

The car on the cover, LRW619P hasn't been taxed since 1997, there are no MOT records and the last V5 was issued in 1991, so I would suggest this has sadly been scrapped.....

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