Osbert Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 Check it out, they are doing a weekly article on classic cars ...... This week it's the "macho" TR6! Cheers Chris (null) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dykins Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 Haven't read it, but please tell me that they haven't used the unoriginal "last of the hairy chested sportscars" description. Regards Peter (about to leave for Prescott ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew Smith Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 .......please tell me that they haven't used the unoriginal "last of the hairy chested sportscars" description. What's wrong with that Peter, unless you haven't got any chest hair? - it's a very late 60s/early 70s statement. Cheers Andrew Quote Link to post Share on other sites
david johnson Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 Nice to see an accurate and properly researched review of the TR6 in todays TIimes motoring section. This should further help the popularity of the car and the membership. of the register. The values are a lot more accurate to todays situation than currently in various publications. A bit rude about the small power later model though. David. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alec Pringle Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 Dates back to the first public announcement and road tests of the TR6, and it stuck. Can't get more original than that. Cheers, Alec Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PILKIE Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 I wonder how many female owners,drivers have hairy chests!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alec Pringle Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 There's only one way to find out . . . . good luck with your researches Dave ! Cheers, Alec Quote Link to post Share on other sites
4Mal Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 No mention of hairy chests..... It's " The very best of British beefcakes". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dykins Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 Dates back to the first public announcement and road tests of the TR6, and it stuck. Can't get more original than that. Cheers, Alec I meant that I hoped that the journalist wouldn't be lazy and just regurgatate the same old quotes - that he/she would be capable of more original and unique thought. Regards Peter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clarkey Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 Oh No Ive bought a bad one............. as its a post 73 oh no what is a man to do.......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ntc Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 Oh No Ive bought a bad one............. as its a post 73 oh no what is a man to do.......... But your's is not std Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Osbert Posted May 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 Apparently, according to the article...... " you buy a TR because you drink real ale, smoke a pipe and want to add hairs to your chest perhaps compensating for the one's falling out up top" ........ mmmmm! .....Btw I def don't smoke a pipe!! (null) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Harvey Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 There, there lads. You'll get over it. If your TR6 is mint you could always swap it for an average 4A and avoid these nasty little side swipes by ignorant journos. Just a thought. No offence. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alec Pringle Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 Since when have side swipes by journalists been worth worrying about ? They're journalists, not to be taken too seriously, except by themselves. As the late lamented Dave Lightning Brown once put it so eloquently (he didn't go much on journalists) - "Those who can, w*nk. Those who can't become journalists, and word w*nk instead". Cheers, Alec Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stephen cooper Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 Missed this, anyone got a copy of it online? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gordon Bayley Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 Hi Steve, Theres nothing new same old things, but it does say never take your bumpers off One thing the price guide ; tired condition £4k -£6k ,good condition £12k -£20k ,concourse £30k , the best to buy is a RED pre 1973, If your going to Tatton in June i'll bring it along, Cheers Gordon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew Smith Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 Just read the article and it's pretty good, if you’re a CP owner............. Having owned two 73 CRs and now a 72 CP, there is a considerable difference in how the two cars deliver their power in original specification – the CP being rather savage in comparison, whilst the CR offers more torque, but I know which one I prefer. Cheers Andrew Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Davidw Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 Apparently, according to the article...... " you buy a TR because you drink real ale, smoke a pipe and want to add hairs to your chest perhaps compensating for the one's falling out up top" ........ mmmmm! .....Btw I def don't smoke a pipe!! (null) Hmmm. I went to a show in Beaconsfield a couple of weeks ago. Mine was the only TR there. But the only other car that really caught my eye (and Mrs W's too) was a very gently restored MG Magnette Varitone. As I have recently started to wear a trilby hat in London in the rain, Mrs W. suggested that the Magnette would go well with my business attire, but that I would have to start smoking a pipe as well. She had thoughts of my going about the place with the theme music from "Dick Barton Special Agent" playing over the radio. Either that or bulletins from the Suez crisis being read by John Snagge on the Home Service. And then I realised that I have become my late father! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ntc Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 Just read the article and it's pretty good, if you’re a CP owner............. Having owned two 73 CRs and now a 72 CP, there is a considerable difference in how the two cars deliver their power in original specification – the CP being rather savage in comparison, whilst the CR offers more torque, but I know which one I prefer. Cheers Andrew The are like chalk and cheese but both do the job at the end of the day Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TRTOM2498PI Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 Agreed with NTC, and Andrew Smith. If you have two well set-up CR & CP examples, there is a diifference. CP definately has more outright grunt, but CR nice to drive around town, mainly due to cam characteristics. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
david johnson Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 East west neithers best. Make one up from either model to your own spec. That in my view is the way to do it. David. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
richard26 Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 I thought that was what overdrive 2nd was for. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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