First proper car I had was a tr7 automatic with a Borg Warner gearbox it totally changed the character of the car it was smooth and had an air of quality about it. Not a convertible but loved that car. Nostalgia oh to be young again.
I was a young boy when they first came out and fell in love with them . I always liked the Coupe more . I used to have a model of the Victory Edition I built .
The 2 litre Dolomite Sprint engine had "a single cam shaft" operating 16valves, the only one of it's kind. It also had near identical performance figures to the 3.5 litre V8.
I was an auto mechanic in America during the 1980,s Among other imports, we serviced cars that had been sold by a defunct Triumph Dealer in Raleigh. Sabotage on the assembly line is the only possible explanation for the poor quality of those cars. I saw valve seats fall out of cylinder heads, broken connecting rod bolts, transmissions fall apart, differentials fail, electrical fires, all in cars that were two years old or less and under 12000 miles. My colleagues and I made the cars the punch line of many a workshop joke.
The strikes in the UK at the time meant build quality was very poor. With the political unions in the 1970s doing their best sabotage all things British. In the days when people thought a job was a god given gift. Later into the 80s as the so-called Winter of Discontent.
