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Following on from the what's your location, & pinched from another
forum, give us the details of your Triumph.

So here's my 7.

Bought 2002, as a non runner. Milage 10000Km on clock.

Put on road april 2003, as a daily driver.

Today, just ticked over to 160000Km, about 7000Km per year.

Best drive. 74Km of gravel road in northern NSW. WOW!!!

Longest drive. 2550Km in 4 days, to an historic meeting & back.

Longest single drive, 1130Km, in 11.5 hours, Bathurst to home, after
a 45 year car club reunion.

Do you still go for a drive to nowhere, just because you love it?
YES, of course, but I do it more often in the 8, because it's less
suitable for daily driving, mostly worried about paint chips.

How long will you keep it?
If it wouldn't be such a waste, I'd be buried in it, but it'll
probobly go to the boy, who also loves it.

Hasbeen

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<font color="maroon"><b>Can I also suggest your favorite photo of your car?


I bought my car 3 years ago from John Gibson (who still helps me with he car when I get problems)(thanks John)

When i bought the car it had 18,000 miles

Today it has 24,000</b></font id="maroon">

<font color="blue">longest drive </font id="blue"> <font color="maroon"><b>980 miles this year to billing and back </b> </font id="maroon">

<font color="blue">Longest single drive</font id="blue"> <font color="maroon"><b>470 back from billing via a friends house</b></font id="maroon">

<font color="blue">Do you still go for a drive to nowhere</font id="blue"> <font color="maroon"><b>Yip all the time love going in a run in the car just for the hell of it ...[:D]</b></font id="maroon">

<font color="blue">How long will you keep it?</font id="blue"> <font color="maroon"><b>For the unforeseeable future</b></font id="maroon">

<font color="blue">My favorite photo</font id="blue">



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<font size="4"><font color="green"><i>If it's not broke don't fix it.</i></font id="green"></font id="size4">

DHC bought 1988 as my daily driver with around 130.000Km on the clock.
When laid up in 1998 the clock stood at 274.492km
Should be ready after restoration by the end of this year

FHC bought in 1993 to break for parts with 73.933km on the clock.
But was to good to scrap so after restoration back on the road in 1997
Covered in total 166.275km by now

<font color="blue"><i>Best drive;</i></font id="blue">
North slope of the Stelvio in 2002 with absolutely no traffic



<font color="blue"><i>Longest drive; </i></font id="blue">
3877km in 4 days, during the 2005 10CR in the DHC.

<font color="blue"><i>Longest single drive;</i></font id="blue">
Approximate 2100km again during the 2005 10CR [:I]

<font color="blue"><i>Do you still go for a drive to nowhere, just because you love it? </i></font id="blue">
YES, it's the only reason I still have my TR7's [:D]

<font color="blue"><i>How long will you keep it?</i></font id="blue">
As I look at it now, as long as I am able to drive them.

<font color="blue"><i>Favorite pictures;</i></font id="blue">
They are in my signature. On top of the Col de L'Iseran in the French Alps ...



And on top of the Timmelsjoch between Italy and Austria during the 200710CR



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<font color="blue"><i>1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)
1980 TR7 DHC (my first car currently being restored)
In parts a 1980 TR7 PI DHC, 1981 TR7 DHC, 1981 TR7 FHC</font id="blue">
<font color="red">http://tr7beans.blogspot.com/</i></font id="red"></center>

Currently 112,672 miles and still in very good original condition.

As I have learned on a couple of rallies, the odometer on mine skips some miles here & there. Makes for interesting navagation.[B)] I think it reads around 80 thou but have no real idea the actual miles. Probably doesn't matter since dang near the whole car has either been rebuilt or replaced.[;)]

Jim Underwood
72 MGB BRG
80 TR8 Persian Aqua
If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

Bought 2005 - a present to myself after splitting up with my wife. No clue what the mileage was then.

Current mileage 71596.5 (got the fascia sat on the bench next to me [:)])

Best drive: Round Britain run, heading out of Thurso into the back end of nowhere.

Longest drive: Round Britain run, 2000 miles in 2 days.

Longest single drive: No idea actually, would have been somewhere on the RBRR. Other than that, most of my 'long' runs have been in the 100-150 mile range.

Do you still go for a drive to nowhere, just because you love it?
No, but that's more to do with the fact that it's up on axle stands, mid-resto. Once it gets back on the road, then yes, definitely.

How long will you keep it?
Until it dies, or until I die. Whichever comes first.

Best picture:



<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Underdog</i>Probably doesn't matter since dang near the whole car has either been rebuilt or replaced.[;)]
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True enough - when I got the car it had a different engine and gearbox, and I soon replaced the axle. The front bearings were done a couple of years before I got it, so that's pretty much all the important running gear swapped. In the course of this resto, it's all being replaced again.

Garry

1976 2.0 (soon to be 3.5!)FHC
http://reds-tr7.blogspot.com/

<b><font color="blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Cars History;</font id="blue"></b></font id="Comic Sans MS">- My Dad bought the car brand new in Montreal December 1982


<b><font color="blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS">I bought my car;</font id="blue"></b></font id="Comic Sans MS">- bought the car out right in 1998

<b><font color="blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS">When i bought the car it had;</font id="blue"></b></font id="Comic Sans MS">- 21,000km

<b></b><font color="blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Today it has;</font id="blue"></b></font id="Comic Sans MS">- 58265km ( but unfortunately due to family and work commitments for the first time in 10 years, I haven't driven even 1 km this year (yet ......)

<b><font color="blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS">longest drive;</font id="blue"></b></font id="Comic Sans MS">- nothing to long for mentioning......other than a few day/weekend drives into NewYork and Ontario (mostly show related)

<b><font color="blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Longest single drive;</font id="blue"></b></font id="Comic Sans MS"> - same as above, mostly day runs to nowhere!!!

<b><font color="blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Do you still go for a drive to nowhere;</font id="blue"></b></font id="Comic Sans MS"> - isn't that what the car is about?????

(actually I've also regularly used the car for stress relief after a hard days work )

<b><font color="blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS">How long will you keep it?;</font id="blue"></b></font id="Comic Sans MS"> - probably never sell it , but you never really know .......honestly guess I'll possibly end up giving it to one of the kids someday.....if I don't V8 it (lol)

<b><font color="blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS">My favorite photo;</font id="blue">[/b]</font id="Comic Sans MS">



Ron.