Mr.G
Club Member
Thought some of you may like this especially Rob Gaskin as it has Tony Pond in it.
I miss watching racing like this....
I miss watching racing like this....
I had an MG Maestro Turbo, it was feckin brill! So quick with torque steer in abundance. Quite similar to Datsuns in respect of their phenomenal ability to rust!I enjoyed that - some great names - I had to look up Sullivan.
That motorsport legend - the Maestro .....
I had an MG Maestro Turbo, it was feckin brill! So quick with torque steer in abundance. Quite similar to Datsuns in respect of their phenomenal ability to rust!
Tony Pond is one of my heroes - mainly because I'm a TR7 nut - not cool with most people, I know.
My first proper car I bounght in 1990 was a TR7 and I still have it - but it currently has a 4.0 litre V8. Whilst I was restoring this car I ran a standard fixed-head TR7 until the V8 was built. Much later, in about 2010, I bought another fixed-head TR7 that I was going to build into a rally car. It had full service history and so orignal that I decided it was too good to convert. About the same time I got offered another early TR7 so ended up with 2 exactly the same 4-speed cars but different colour.
I sold the Java green TR7 but kept the other (Carmine Red, and still have it).
A TR7V8 rally car came up for sale so I bought that, and was a close replica of the Triumph Works TR7V8, but a project. I finished the project, and after 5 years sold it to pay for my TR4.
The guy I bought the unfinished TR7V8 project from was called Anthony Sharpe and he was returning back to Canada (hence the sale, although he had built a few cars previously). He said at the time of purchase that he used to drive for Nissan/Datsun as a Works driver but at the time I never pressed, but he did have pictures of Nissan/Datsun cars in his den.
Saw Pond win the Manx International in a TR7 V8 (1978?).
It looked and sounded magnificent.
I have been in a standard TR7. I always thought that the Dolly Sprint engine should have been an option in a TR7. Why did they put a lower powered engine in a sports car?
Just googled the TR7 Sprint - it never went into full production with the closure of the Speke plant. Shame.I think the rally cars (non v8) and the TR7 Sprint used the dolly sprint engine .
ive never been in one - one for the to do list
Just googled the TR7 Sprint - it never went into full production with the closure of the Speke plant. Shame.