Well, at the moment my fleet's seen some sharp changes. I recently sold my very trusty (and absolutely fantastic) Jeep Cherokee, which has done me very well:
I also very briefly dabbled with:
A 1.7 'VCT' Ford Puma, great fun to drive but very not me...
.......and I also have currently as my daily, which I've been hacking around in for a fair few miles now:
The Pinifarina penned 406 Coupe, a 3.0 V6 'SE'. Suffice to say it's a lovely machine and drives beautifully, and has all the toys (heated electric memory leather, rain sensing wipers, cruise, climate etc), but it'll be moving on soon to make way for a more period daily. Sounds great though and is fantastic through the corners.
At this current moment I'm working on this as a project:
It's a 1975 P6, a 3500 'S' with the 3.5 litre Rover V8, and a few choice mods - SD1 heads, electronic ignition, Facet fuel pump and a 5 speed LT77 gearbox. The car's had a full engine and gearbox not many miles ago so is in fine fettle mechanically. It has, as original, PAS and 4 wheel disc brakes (with the rears being inboard) too, so it's pretty well kitted out.
I'm almost at the point of getting this MOT'd, so I'm hoping that with some luck and preparation I'll be able to get it on the road and see what it's really like - because I am quite taken with it and wouldn't mind using it on a regular basis - but it does need a fair few things doing, nothing major though. I had a P6 before but this one with the manual box is just a bit more sporting and entertaining - plus it's in my favorite colour....
Anyway, I digress - I've always fancied a Triumph 2000 but finding a good one can be a bit of a chore, or at least, one that's a solid base. This particular car had been around for sale for a while now, so I took a chance and bought it without seeing it and got my transporter to collect it for me - you never know unless you try and this seemed like a good bet.
Getting it transported turned out to be a smart move (it was a good few hundred miles away) as it very quickly developed a chronic misfire once here! Wouldn't have been fun on the day. Oddly enough, it cost as much to get it collected as it would have to go down and drive it back myself, so not really any great loss there.
I resolved the misfire very quickly by changing the plugs and fettling with the new leads (poorly fitted) - as the car has had a recent new distributor, leads, cap and electronic ignition, so I took a gamble on it being the plugs. It's running a bit rich too but I'll sort that when I get the correct tool for adjusting the Strombergs.
After that, I was rewarded with this:
It's a 1970 Triumph 2000 automatic, a Mk.2 "Innsbruck" saloon.
The car's done 60,393 genuine miles, had 3 previous owners and is in pretty good shape, to say the least.
Pictures:
I thought this was a pretty neat period touch
Oh yea
All it really needs is a new set of front carpets, a new steering column bush and a decent tune - but it runs and drives very sweetly as is.
I'm half tempted to make it my daily but I just really need to give it a decent road-test (which I'm not going to do until I've fitted the new bush) and see whether I could live with the relatively low output - as I'm a bit concerned that I'll have to spend a fair bit to get it up to a standard I'm happy with - things like lower springs, front ARB, a bit more power and so on.
On the flipside though, it's a fantastic shell, with good paint, and a great interior, and 2500 engines, or even PI systems, aren't hard to come by if I wanted to soup it up and keep it "Triumph".
I'm also collecting parts (only need a block & crank now) to build a really nice Chevrolet V8 at the moment - with the intention to put it in a Triumph - and it did cross my mind that this would make a great starting point, with a mild 350/350 combo or a 5 speed manual T5 box......but that'd be some time in the future and I'd have to think twice about hacking something like this about!
Well, maybe twice
Opinions and suggestions welcome
I also very briefly dabbled with:
A 1.7 'VCT' Ford Puma, great fun to drive but very not me...
.......and I also have currently as my daily, which I've been hacking around in for a fair few miles now:
The Pinifarina penned 406 Coupe, a 3.0 V6 'SE'. Suffice to say it's a lovely machine and drives beautifully, and has all the toys (heated electric memory leather, rain sensing wipers, cruise, climate etc), but it'll be moving on soon to make way for a more period daily. Sounds great though and is fantastic through the corners.
At this current moment I'm working on this as a project:
It's a 1975 P6, a 3500 'S' with the 3.5 litre Rover V8, and a few choice mods - SD1 heads, electronic ignition, Facet fuel pump and a 5 speed LT77 gearbox. The car's had a full engine and gearbox not many miles ago so is in fine fettle mechanically. It has, as original, PAS and 4 wheel disc brakes (with the rears being inboard) too, so it's pretty well kitted out.
I'm almost at the point of getting this MOT'd, so I'm hoping that with some luck and preparation I'll be able to get it on the road and see what it's really like - because I am quite taken with it and wouldn't mind using it on a regular basis - but it does need a fair few things doing, nothing major though. I had a P6 before but this one with the manual box is just a bit more sporting and entertaining - plus it's in my favorite colour....
Anyway, I digress - I've always fancied a Triumph 2000 but finding a good one can be a bit of a chore, or at least, one that's a solid base. This particular car had been around for sale for a while now, so I took a chance and bought it without seeing it and got my transporter to collect it for me - you never know unless you try and this seemed like a good bet.
Getting it transported turned out to be a smart move (it was a good few hundred miles away) as it very quickly developed a chronic misfire once here! Wouldn't have been fun on the day. Oddly enough, it cost as much to get it collected as it would have to go down and drive it back myself, so not really any great loss there.
I resolved the misfire very quickly by changing the plugs and fettling with the new leads (poorly fitted) - as the car has had a recent new distributor, leads, cap and electronic ignition, so I took a gamble on it being the plugs. It's running a bit rich too but I'll sort that when I get the correct tool for adjusting the Strombergs.
After that, I was rewarded with this:
It's a 1970 Triumph 2000 automatic, a Mk.2 "Innsbruck" saloon.
The car's done 60,393 genuine miles, had 3 previous owners and is in pretty good shape, to say the least.
Pictures:
I thought this was a pretty neat period touch
Oh yea
All it really needs is a new set of front carpets, a new steering column bush and a decent tune - but it runs and drives very sweetly as is.
I'm half tempted to make it my daily but I just really need to give it a decent road-test (which I'm not going to do until I've fitted the new bush) and see whether I could live with the relatively low output - as I'm a bit concerned that I'll have to spend a fair bit to get it up to a standard I'm happy with - things like lower springs, front ARB, a bit more power and so on.
On the flipside though, it's a fantastic shell, with good paint, and a great interior, and 2500 engines, or even PI systems, aren't hard to come by if I wanted to soup it up and keep it "Triumph".
I'm also collecting parts (only need a block & crank now) to build a really nice Chevrolet V8 at the moment - with the intention to put it in a Triumph - and it did cross my mind that this would make a great starting point, with a mild 350/350 combo or a 5 speed manual T5 box......but that'd be some time in the future and I'd have to think twice about hacking something like this about!
Well, maybe twice
Opinions and suggestions welcome
, even in brown, would love a 2500 estate some day 
