Triumph Stag RESTORATION (Before & After) | For The Love Of Cars | Reel Truth History 

one of the sweetest 'organic' sounding V8s ever created..... top down, cruise the British countryside around 1700 rpm in top...you will never forget the experience :)

absolutely love this tv program.. hopefully you can upload more of the episodes of this tv program

I love the series, funny and educational

The voice over says they will make the engine go and sound better. Go better maybe. But the standard Stag is the best sounding engine in the automotive world. Perfect!

Bigging up da triumph quality motor ❤👊🏼

That’s a beautiful car

Please continue this show

The overheating problem was down to the diameter of the radiator pipe. It was just a matter of replacing this for a wider pipe, and the overheating problems ceased.

The fact that there are so many Stags on the road today is a testament to the fact that the engines aren't inherently bad. Require a little extra care and attention? Yes. But not bad. My only gripe is the gearing being too short at motorway speeds.

The usual drivel from these TV "experts" - Stags are notorious for rusting - every car from back then rusted big style if you let them and most people did as they never bothered cleaning out under the wheelarches subframes or kept the underseal under the car maintained or bothered with waxing the cavities etc - some of us did and didnt have a problem with rust on our cars. Plus the Stag is a very reliable car these days as plenty of people have sorted out the problem with the engine overheating etc.

When is the third dvd going to be made...we want more!

15:13 'Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?

I owned a Stag for four years and once I got rid of the very poorly looked after engine and rebuilt it, it was pure magic. It never once let me down and I would own another in a heartbeat!!!

I was told that when the cylinder blocks were cast they were full of sand from the casting process hence the overheating

At 6:20 when its revved up. Thats a "Staggering" sound! Wonderful :-)

I would have still fitted a modern radiator just incase,lovely motors 😁😁😁😁😁🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Proven by fact Saab took half this engine and it was excellent

One of very best programs on tv enjoyed every episode when is it returning ..

How many man hours in this?? Great though

I think the stag looks better than the E-Type.

Waterless cooling is the way to go.

This show makes me hungry for sugary doughnuts

It really should have had Rovers V8 from new

Their great cars for all their foibles! Triumphs should have used the Rover V8 from Day One. Aside from company pride, the use of the Rover engine from a warranty point of view etc would have been negligible which plagued the Stag back then, which in turn may have had an influence on its development/longevity in the market due to poor press.

If you wanna make it reliable, and old trick in the book is to pry off the Leyland badge on the flank.

39:29 ... did he really do that to fresh, new paint???

Must be a Jim Henson production.

Cooling system tested, by academics, with the bonnet open... Tested the same way as the BL academics did in the 70's........ Why on earth did the original Fiat 500 Abarth have the engine cover permanently at half mast..

I guess if you mention that other car rescuing dynamic duo, your comment will be deleted.

Was it not that vains in the radiator ran the wrong way???

its own slant-4 so that two could be joined to make a V8 So basically two dolomite engines welded together.

How many would think it is a cakewalk, look at Ant and you know it's all sweat & blood

Lusted after it as a kid, gorgeous but of course massively flawed !!

Probably stalling from driving around with the main beams on all the time in daylight!

?????? Why change the plate or is it a totally different car ????????

That guy pulls out a seat and forcibly throws it down onto a concrete floor.?

Set up there is no way a restored stag would be that unreliable ,its simple to maintain /repair old car . old school engineering

I had one once, and I loved it. By the time I bought mine in the 1990s most of them were quite reliable including the ones with original engines like mine. I totally loved it. It was the only car I really miss, even with its foibles. They sounded the dogs' with a wide-bore mild-steel exhaust. It was the only car that wore a porn-star moustache.

I would have left it blue

Recovery driver draping the jump leads over the paintwork ,,,,,,,,,,, take his head off (',') just another car to him, Just like the Hillman Imp they suffered over-heating due to lack of routine cooling system maintenance, i.e poor quality anti-freeze or no antifreeze, hard water leading to scaled/furred radiator tubes equals radiator inefficiency equals over-heating, these cars didnt leave the factory/production line over-heating and there's the clue, bad owners and inept mechanics are to blame and yes I have owned both cars mentioned and I am on the tools for my living its not rocket science

not sure who actually did the restoration....would have been nice to see it done instead of having to listen to all the hyperbolic theatrical nonsense....wasted opportunity unfortunately...nice result though :)

So Leyland knew that "for the US market it needed a big V8 engine". Then they installed a small V8 engine. Yes, I can see the logic there! As for the overheating being attributed to the "pressures" that BL workers were under, sorry, no! I am old enough to have been around and driving many cars at the time of the 1960s and 1970s etc. Being a motor mech and an enthusiast I knew what was going on unlike these presenters who are not old enough to have first-hand experience. That was the time of the huge labour union attempts to sabotage the economy of Britain and they actually succeeded! It was back then a known fact that there was a lot of deliberate sabotage by union members in many factories, and BL was also a major target for the "wreckers"

There's one thing in the Stag's favour - it's not as bad as the Ford Edsel!

about as entertaining as what they do outside this series...

Just put 3000 capri Essex engine in problem solved more torque slightly less hp but way faster

Really need to include the team more ...... less about car owners and much more about the team ffs.......just doesn’t make sense .... a jolly to France ?!?

Pathetic! Typical TV 'experts' who didn't even bother to speak to the person who has forgotten more about Stags than most people will ever know - Tony Hart

Is this the amateur’s version of wheeler dealers!

Better than the pile of shit on the road today classic car.

Why would you take it to such a bigoted, unsympathetic, alleged restorer? I wanted to watch it, but couldn’t get past the big headed Pratt that you let touch it, he wants condemning, not the car!!!

Talk about a whinging pom!

Who needs the Germans LOL !!! say's it all !!!

Oh.. the head is the top half of the engine and the block is the bottom half of the engine....not exactly made for car enthusiasts this programme is it...what a waste of time watching such drivel.. there was virtually none of the supposed restoration shown and clearly the 'one of the best mechanics in the UK' had nothing to do with it other than a few..very few... filming sequences. Are we ever going to see a straightforward car restoration program on TV. This was clearly one of the worst in terms of technical content.

N ext to the Land rover Freelander, read freeloader, the Stag engine which was simply double the trouble of the Dolomite engine, would be the worst engine ever made, an absolute POS! Body style looked good though.

16min 30sec more than half of what was Wrong with ALL vehicles out of Britain, BL+trade unions+ poor workmanship!!!! Fit a Rover V8 use original for a boat anchor!!!!

It was just the wrong engine