Triumph 52 years old ...only 20 miles on the clock
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hillbilly30
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My mate was the auctioneer, From what I understand it wasn't in the condition you would expect/hope, not well stored! Still made daft money though, £13k irrc
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DanThe
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If they made it to 3 years! My uncle bought a spitfire brand new in the 70's and drove to Greece in it at less than a month old, various stops along the way for repairs, the forking propshaft even fell off! 
Indeed. Folk forget/don't know how rubbish Bristish stuff was - Triumphs were easily the worst.
"You'll never believe this Jim, but that Datsun 180B of mine I bought last month has started every time".
Seven years later.........
"It's gettting a bit rusty, but apart from a battery, that 180B of mine never broke down. I'm getting another"
Etc.
"You'll never believe this Jim, but that Datsun 180B of mine I bought last month has started every time".
Seven years later.........
"It's gettting a bit rusty, but apart from a battery, that 180B of mine never broke down. I'm getting another"
Etc.
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DanThe
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I remember one of the old boys I used to work with telling me about a new BL car (cant remember exactly which) that belonged to a big company they did service work for coming in for a check over, it was pulling to one side under braking, the cooonts had only fitted disc brakes to one side and drums to the other on the factory line 