Number of TR7's still on the road in the UK

[HowardB]

The table below is from the UK oficial MOT test results in 2007 and lists the number of TR 7's (which probably includes TR7 V8 & TR 8 models) that were legally on the road in the UK that year. The year is the original date of registration.

Apparently 1971 was used as a registration date for any cars that were rebuilt/reshelled before the system was computerised, but the other pre '76 dates are probably data entry errors.

Its good to know that after 30 years almost 1% of all the 7's built are still on the road in the UK. Since in addition there would have been other cars that were off the road for one reason or another, the number is probably on the low side.

1969 3
1970 3
1971* 21
1973 5
1974 5
1975 6
1976 17
1977 70
1978 26
1979 30
1980 292
1981 296
1982 212
1983 3
Total 989

Cheers

Howard

[Steve-LPS-Thomas]

Interesting.. early cars are lower than I would have expected.



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[Steve-LPS-Thomas]

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I have a 1975 car that was MOT'ed 14th Feb but thinking about it that was probably 2008.

Steve



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[Jolyon39]

Those figures are interesting.

It shows that there are more late model cars around and I suggest they are more likely the DHC. So the DHC is the one people restore and will go up in value....one day.

The other issue is that people like Rimmers, S&S and Rbobsport have a very small, declining market. Looks like our parts will be "rare" as these guys move to other makes and models to survive. Finally those adds on Ebay will be honest.

[nervousnewowner]

my car was only re mot'd april 2009 so add another 1981 dhc to the numbers.....
also sad but true fact that the scrappage scheme has come along too in the intervening years and we know from ebay that a few got turned in through that so a new up to date figure would be most interesting.....
the re bodies would of been able to go through on their original number plates i would of thought so the early reg dates are interesting, unless they are personalised....
i am pretty sure all uncertain registered cars were classed as 73, i say this as the wife had a trike we tried to get registered and when being mot't they put that through as 73, something to do with the records dating from there.


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[John Wood]

I think around 23,000 were registered in the UK, the rest were exported. So it's somewhere around 4.3% survival rate in the UK. Is that good?

1975 FHC
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[John Clancy]

If these figures are correct, and I fully expect they are, then the number of TR7's in the UK has declined by 1000 in the past 5 years. Frightening!

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[stricky]

also the govenment's recent scrapage scheme will have seen a few off as this is 2007's figures.





'81 TR7 DHC
'79 TR7 V8 FHC

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[Cobber]

<font size="2"><font face="Comic Sans MS">All this talk of government scrapage schemes makes me think we should start our own government scrapage scheme of our own, where by we get to scrap governments! </font id="Comic Sans MS"></font id="size2">

80'Triumph TR7, , 73'Land Rover (Ford 351. V8),
'89 Ford Fairlane
85'Alfa 90, 69'Ford F250.
76' Ford F100

[nervousnewowner]

yeah but you have to remember we'd get £2000 for the car, when the goverments are pretty much worthless,


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[Cobber]

<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 nervousnewowner</i>

yeah but you have to remember we'd get £2000 for the car, when the goverments are pretty much worthless,
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Just think of the joy of getting to watch politicians being put through the crusher!</font id="Comic Sans MS"></font id="size2"> [:D]

80'Triumph TR7, , 73'Land Rover (Ford 351. V8),
'89 Ford Fairlane
85'Alfa 90, 69'Ford F250.
76' Ford F100

[John Clancy]

Of course, it's cars MOT'd - so thankfully there are a lot more cars around than the figures would indicate. A couple of years before this the DVLA had around 2000 TR7's still registered in the UK... and 'registered' is the important part as so many are off the road on a 'SORN' (Statutory Off Road Notification) notice. Hopefully there are still 1500 left then.

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[HowardB]

The figures also listed over 600 MOT failures, but since most of them would be repaired & retested they cannot be added to the total.

[nervousnewowner]

or 600 potential parts machines....... guy i saw just before christmas has a lovely dhc and said he broke 5 tr7s to get the parts together to rebuild it..... scary thought isnt it.....


the project at birth, watch it evolve...I hope...

[Bobbieslandy]

too true, as long as what's built out of those 5 TR7s is going to last then it's not so much of a problem, fewer TR7s will push the prices up. then again maybe not lol!. My '79 FHC will be MOT'd by July, that's one more for the list! Does the list show how many are FHCs?