Neil W Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 A new one-off magazine, The Practical Classics Guide to the TR2-6, is now on sale for just £6.99. This special publication, produced by Practical Classics magazine, contains everything you’ll ever want to know about buying, running and working on the Triumph TR. From Belgrove to Michelotti to Karmann and beyond, we’ll take you on a journey that promises a unique insight into how Triumph’s sporting roadster took on the world – and won. A numbered, limited edition signed by eminent British motoring historian Graham Robson (complete with an exclusive cover and an A2 cutaway poster) is also available, priced £20. Pop into WH Smith or get delivered - Collector's Edition is via On Line - at bottom of below link http://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/partnership/classics-bookazine http://www.practicalclassics.co.uk/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dykins Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Neil That almost reads like you have done a PR bit for the magazine. I saw it in Smiths yesterday and was almost tempted to buy it, but it looks like a collection of previously published articles bound together with very little, if anything, new. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Graham Robson Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 And all I did was grin and sign a few limited-edition books .... (Treatment for a sprained wrist is in progress ...) Hon. pres. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neil W Posted April 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Neil That almost reads like you have done a PR bit for the magazine. I saw it in Smiths yesterday and was almost tempted to buy it, but it looks like a collection of previously published articles bound together with very little, if anything, new. No PR - just copied pasted the blurb that was in the e-mail I received ( I have a subsciption for PC as I work abroad so have a pile to read after 4 months away ). Agree the publication looks like a collection of previous articles but now in one place - handy for me as I am in the market for a TR 6 so worth a read & saves me going thrrough all the old magazines in the garage. Graham Robson's signed one looks nice - main thing it will draw attention to the TR Register as the publication covers 90 % of the cars in the club when on the front shelf at WHS Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mike3739 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Ordered mine thanks for posting Cheers Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lebro Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Mine been on order for a few days now (not the signed version - I already have Graham's signature on something else!) Bob. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve Priest Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Thanks for posting (one day I hope to visit this forum without using my credit card!) Steve Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Peter Cobbold Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 I shall have to wait for the second edition: Guide to the TR2 to 7. Peter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
McMuttley Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Thirteen pund n a penny for Robbos sig ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Graham Robson Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Not just for my signature, I hope - 'they' say it will be specially bound, etc, etc. I wasn't/am not, involved in the pricing/merchandising, at all. Please guv, there isn't a penny - not an extra penny - in this for me. Hon. Pres. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TR5tar Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Thanks for posting Neil. I haven't got any of the previously published articles, so ordered mine (pushed the boat out and went for the signed edition). Darren Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alec Pringle Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 A compilation of magazine articles can be a great aid to the would-be TR owner, just as long as he or she remembers that the articles are written by journalists who may well be more blessed with enthusiasm and journalistic flair than TR specific technical competence . . . . . As ever, take with a generous pinch of salt and read between the lines, and don't take everything you read as gospel, or at face value . . . . Meanwhile, it really is time that the classic rags gave up on the TRaditional separation of TR2-6 on the one hand the TR7-8 on the other. They're all TRs, the last of them left the line almost 34 years ago, and the Wedges are now becoming rarer than the sidescreen cars. Cheers Alec Quote Link to post Share on other sites
McMuttley Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 (edited) i got mine from Victoria Station whs last night Edited April 18, 2015 by McMuttley Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lebro Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 I did not know that you could buy wedges at Victoria Station Quote Link to post Share on other sites
McMuttley Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Had i had known it had a blue tr3 in it I would have offered £4.99, esp one with dics not wires Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rhino_mac Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Just bought a copy. Not bad for seven quid and while my car is at Stuart's being sorted out it seemed to fill the TR void for an hour or so. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lebro Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 Had i had known it had a blue tr3 in it I would have offered £4.99, esp one with dics not wires Bob. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steves_TR6 Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 I shall purchase a copy next time I'm near a whs, always good to read about TRs :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bob Horner Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 I am often hoodwinked into buying a magazine because there is a triumph article in it. However, generally such articles are superficial, repeat common myths or simply get things wrong. I would never use them as a basis for buying or restoring a TR - unless you only needed to be able to tell a TR3 from a TR6! Best to simply surf this forum rather rely on journalistic copy. I am an accountant by trade and, like anyone else, generally believe what I read in the papers. Its only at budget time or when there is an article about tax policy etc written by a journalist do you realise that quite a lot of what we read in the papers is likely to be a bunch of badly researched, over simplified, misinformed half truths! Just re read my post - such spiteful ill informed vitriol from one so young. Maybe I should have a go at this journalism lark! Oh yeah, and by the way (warming to his subject) what's wrong with TR7s and TR8s! Bob Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nowtelse2do Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 (edited) I bought one of these Practical Motor Guide about the XJS, it was word for word and exactly the same photo shoot that was in the Classic Car Mag about a year ago. I think they are sister mag's. Dave Edited April 20, 2015 by nowtelse2do Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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