There was indeed in the early 70's, hence why the TR7 was initially built as a hardtop. Nothing came of the legislation but it took until 1980 for the soft top version to be available.
the yanks did nothing for bumper asthetics
Ha, that's how the wife used to park, she had to put one set of tyres on the pavement so she knew she was close enough.
The AC Cobra and the odd muscle car aside they've consistently made some dog ugly cars.
Although the Cobra was part british. Still one of the best and most aggressive looking cars ever
And just to be doubly sure of crash safety, triumph cunningly made the tr7 to be so slow it was impossible to injure yourself in the event of an accident. :-)
Yeah, beautiful cars...price lists not available though, definitely way out of my range.
And mine, sadly.
Didn't they build a few with V8 (or possibly V6) engines?
V8's mate, yes, but not many.
Someone once shoehorned a Rover V8 into a mini. Old style min btw. I thought it looked incredible.
None with V6, although some yanks do a conversion using a V6 which I really don't see the point of when there is a perfectly good V8 designed to go in it. Factory did some 2500 V8 dhc which went to the NA market and there were a few fhc development cars. Only 22 rhd dhc's were made, none were sold to the public. There were 3 experimental cars and a few left hookers converted to rhd by the factory.
If you ever saw the brakes on the std car you wouldn't want to drive it fast. Pads are the same as the 1275 Mini.
Thanks, one of my anorak subjects :D
Wow, I thought it was just a very well done restoration job. £100,000 up is a bit on the dear side for me but cracking job.MST Cars
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Yeah, brand spanking new. I'm sure there must be other manufacturers re doing some of the old shape cars. Those are all hand built to speck, still 100 k and up is a bit much haha
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