Graham Robson
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Well, there's 7VC too - an extremely nice one too .... and there must be more.
To my shame, I don't have one. I could have bought 'a leg' of 3VC a few years ago, but Tony Sheack made Neil an offer he couldn't refuse (joking, joking ....)
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You can get treatnent for this sort of illness, you know ....
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Just to clarify .... the Sabrina twin-cam engine was totally special, and not based on any other power unit. For a lot of detail, I can commend the interviews I did with David Eley (whose team designed the Sabrina) which were published in TRIUMPH WORLD a few years ago.
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£405 from Amazon ? You cannot be serious ....
GRAHAM ROBSON
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Hi Alec,
Clearly you know a lot more about these things than I do. Somehow I had always thought that the SUs on a Sportsman were mounted at a different angle from those in the TR3, but - from what you have said - I was wrong.
Well ! I've learned something new today and, as Winston Churchill once said about his own approach to life, that is one of my missions ....
So I thank you very sincerely for that.
GRAHAM ROBSON
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Yes, OK, I ought to know but ....
I have always assumed that the inlet manifold/SU installation in a Vanguard Sportsman (1956 - 1958) is very different from that fitted to the TR3 of the period.
Am I right - and, yes, please rubbish me if I should know better ....?
GRAHAM ROBSON
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For sure it was not built by the factory. Trust me ....
GRAHAM ROBSON
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Wouldn't it be novel if anyone ever took a Forum request seriously ....
Ah well, at least none of you will be able to whinge if the TRR organisers put on something that has not even been suggested ....
GRAHAM ROBSON
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I have only contributed once to this thread, making a totally factual comment about MVC 575 and its owner, all based on personal experience, not on hearsay, rumour or innuendo.
Why then is Rodbro being so rude about me, accusing me of being provocative and flippant in the extreme ? Everyone who knows me (hello to my many acquaintances in the Register) will realise that the comment about stripping off, and licking a restored MVC 575 was an attempt to lighten the tone of what was (and remains) an extremely po-faced thread.
Rodbro is, similarly, ill-informed about the current status of TS2, but I will leave it to other knowledgeable Register enthusiasts to tell him more ....
GRAHAM ROBSON
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As far as is known, the remains/basket case/fill in your own description of MVC 575 is owned by a TR Register member who is London-based, and has several other precious Triumph prototypes. He does not like publicity, he does not show the cars in public and, as far as I can understand, he is making little attempt to restore anything that he owns.
He has, however, been invited to the re-union of 'works' Triumphs at Malvern in July.
Even so, I make this promise. If a properly-restored MVC 575 appears at Malvern, or at any other Triumph occasion in the near future, I will personally stand by it, stark naked, and lick it all over. Deal ?
GRAHAM ROBSON
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If you think this is hostile, you should experience some of the Q & A sessions I have had to survive when acting as a commentator/moderator at one-make club events !
GRAHAM ROBSON
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Please, let's not be rude about the Certificates provided by BMIHT. As our Registrars will confirm, those Certificates merely reflect the facts written down on the Chassis Cards/Microfiche records which were produced at the time.
GRAHAM ROBSON
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Why not look in the appropriate Parts Manuals (sorry, I don't have these myself). Are the Part Numbers the same .... or different ?
GRAHAM ROBSON
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My recommendation, as a regular user, is to use the Channel Tunnel - only 35 minutes from Calais to Folkestone, and much cheaper than the ferries. Better still, you drive on, drive off, and stay with the cars on the transit.
Oh yes, and it's never rough !
GRAHAM ROBSON
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What an insult ! The idiot caption writer says 'Unable to identify the make of car .... probably British'.
Send that man back to school ....
GRAHAM ROBSON
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Rob was in the 'works' rally team at the time, of course - note that WVC 249, as seen on the Wolvey skid pan, was one of the 1959-1960 fleet of 'works' TR3As.
GRAHAM ROBSON
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Well done Brian C. I was just about to write a similar Olde Worlde British correction when the phone rang ....
Union Flag is correct - not Union Jack ....
GRAHAM ROBSON
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As a fully qualified Yorkshireman (Skipton, way back ....) I think I must insist that the only purist way to eat Yorkshire pudding is as a stand-alone starter, with a rich beef gravy poured over it.
But if you must .... serve it along with a plateful of roast beef and vegetables ....
[Anyone who adds jam to it, as a separate dish, must be a southerner ....]
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OK, I now have a follow-up, which might just affect the Triumph fraternity.
Donington Park is now a wasteland, and will cost millions to restore.
Let us unhappily assume that this might never happen, or - worse - that it can be done but will need mega-bucks financing to maintain ....
This almost certainly means that one-make clubs will no longer be able to afford to hold events there. Worse, if this means that there is one less venue in the UK, then other venues might now charge more money for a visit to them .....
Doesn't look promising, does it ?. If I make little effigies of Gillett, for people to stick pins in, will it help ?
GRAHAM ROBSON
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Dear or dear .... what on earth has politics to do with the shambles that is Donington Park ?
The person to blame is Simon Gillett, who seems to have conned Bernie into giving him a contract for the British GP, started digging, rapidly ran out of money (he didn't have much ....) and left Donington looking like a moonscape. As far as I can see, there has been absolutely no remorse.
The tragedy of all this is that Gillett's company has gone broke, so if Donington is ever to be repaired/restored it will have to be by the unfortunate Wheatcroft family, which owns the freehold.
GRAHAM ROBSON
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I'm not sure that 'inspired' is the right word ! Personally, I would say that the late-model Sunbeam Harrington Le Mans was a sort-of inspiration.
Interesting comment about the registration - which of our European forum readers can advise ? It isn't UK, it isn't Irish, it isn't USA, it isn't French .... Oh well, I'll wait to be told.
GRAHAM ROBSON
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For sure this was not a factory project.
GRAHAM ROBSON
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To repeat the information I provided in a previous thread concerning 'works' TR4-style wing vents:
** When the power-tuned engines were fitted, along with full-width undershields to protect engine and transmission from rough tracks, it became clear that under-bonnet temperatures were too high.
** Vents were provided to give the hot air another chance to get out of the engine bay.
** Subjective AND objective testing showed that the vents worked efficiently.
** The vents were not as effective when the full-width/full-length overshields were not in use, because the hot air could then escape downwards.
GRAHAM ROBSON
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No, not the Benson and Hedges concours series, but the Autoglym series of a few years ago. I was the series commentator, so got to know the car quite well.
I too know the man-and-wife who prepared this unbelievable car (it lived in Cornwall), I also know that they never used it on the road, and I know that they sold it very reluctantly because they were offered an unbelievable price at the time.
It looked fabulous - and, incidentally, as I recall, I think it won the Autoglym series in a final shoot-out against a Dino Ferrari ....
GRAHAM ROBSON
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Ian C - can I come to listen ?