BMH and TR7 panel manufacture.

[supercass]

Puzzled how Classic Car Weekly (18/07/2018) arrive at a figure of 2000 TR7's. Surely BMH exported panels. On line resources suggest there are around 3k TR7's remaining as taxed or SORN in the U.K. However I understand that 85% of production was exported so assuming similar conditions that would leave about 17,500 cars outside the U.K. Thus potentially in excess of 20k cars would be affected. I wonder how much of this is a knee jerk reaction to concerns about quality. Fortunately all my panels are original but If I'm correct the BMH front wings which must have been a good seller needed reworking before they would fit, something that always puzzled me. Nevertheless there seems to be no problems with a range of other panels they make for the TR7. supercass

[FI Spyder]

There are more TR7/8's showing up at car shows every year indicating they are starting to come out of the woodwork or should I say barnwork. As to panel quality I read and I think it was Robsport that indicated that the right rear sill would not fit right and need some fettling (a British word meaning "apply hammer"). I too could never figure out why panels wouldn't fit as well as original factory ones. Are they not using the original factory tooling?

[Hasbeen]

Did they ever fit really well, or did the factory own a few hammers too.

As for numbers, we had a birthday party for the TR7 a few years back, at the Queensland branch of the Triumph Sports Owners Club of Aust. Queensland is a big state, & we know there are a couple of 7s in northern parts, a thousand miles or more away, but not that many.

We managed only 13 cars, & 2 were race cars on trailers.

Hasbeen

[FI Spyder]

We had 10 at our Brits on the Beach on July 8th club car show out of 210 cars, the most we ever had and that didn't include a couple more I know of that are in restoration (procrastination) mode.

https://www.oecc.ca/cib/botb%202018%20A.htm

https://www.oecc.ca/cib/botb%202018%20B.htm