PROJECT TR7

I’ve always been into Triumphs, though in the past this interest has been channelled largely into Heralds and Dolomites. I’ve come close to taking the plunge with a TR7 on a few occasions, but something else always seems to have got in the way. In recent years though, it has not been easy to visit specialists in order to create technical features for the magazine, and so we have increased the number of project cars on the go in each issue from one to as many as four.

You can probably imagine what temptation that has put in front of somebody like myself! Certainly it was all the excuse I needed to find myself inspecting a gold TR7 DHC that had been stored for many years and needed a lot of work. I ran the details and pictures past John Clancy of the TR Drivers Club. John was very helpful and knowledgeable as he always is, but I came away from our chat with the distinct impression that he thought I would be well advised to hold off on this one and look instead for an example in better condition. Not that the project car I’d inspected was beyond saving, but it would certainly have been a major task and John was concerned that if I started off with the wrong car, it might well