I was driving home a few days ago and a car caught my eye (when doesn’t that happened?). I didn’t recognize it until I was able to pull up along side it. Even then I had to read the name plate. It looked like a TR6 (never really called them “Triumph”) but longer. It was in fact the “Stag” which is a model I wasn’t familiar with.
The car started out as an experiment with the base design of the 1963 Triumph. It was suppose to give the Mercedes SL a run for it’s money when it went into production in 1970 – 1977.
Snapped the pic on my way home from work.
I like the lines and this one seemed pretty much original. You got to love that that “suspended in air” tail pipe.
It sported a 3.0 V8 and that was it’s down fall. It was horribly unreliable. Everything from the water pump to cylinder issues right down to the Aluminum heads not matching up well with the iron block. But this are all fixable this day in age, but the all lead to the Stag making the top 50 worse cars ever.
Got a Stag? Drop me a note.
Thanks for reading.
Tim
