TWO EXTRA WHEELS

I have owned a lot of Triumph motorbikes over the years, but even though I've had a lot of cars pass through my hands too, but before this TR6 only one of these has ever been a Triumph. Your readers might not know this, but Triumph in Meriden built a TR6 motorbike from 1956-1973. I'd never had one of those either, and one day I decided that this was a gap in my motorcycling CV which needed filling.

So I went online and typed TRIUMPH TR6 into the search engine. Obviously, both cars and bikes popped up. In the past I'd restored a Jaguar E-Type, but this was in the very early 1980s and back then you didn't restore cars so much as get them ready for the next MoT. I used to do cars up and then sell them on, occasionally coming a cropper but usually turning a profit. However, classics from the 1950s-1970s always have more rust than you anticiate. I'd always promised myself I would never do another car because they needed too much welding, but when this TR6 popped up on my screen, it was described as rust-free...

The car had been reimported to the UK from Arizona in the USA, hence the rust-free claim. Well, to be more accurate it was