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Postby silverseven » 17 Jul 2009 01:39

just found this lurking in Montreal........(gasp!)


ad # 138928435 on montreal.kijiji.ca

TRIUMPH TR7 MODIFIÉ
Price: $4,500.00

Make: Other
Model: TRIUMPH TR7
Year: 1977
Kilometers: 30000
Body Type: Coupe (2 door)
Colour: White

Date Listed: 29-Jun-09

TRIUMPH TR7 1977 MODIFIÉ PAR UN PROFESSIONNEL
MOTEUR 327
275 FORCES
TRANSMISSION 4 VITESSES MUNCIE


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at least inside that frightfull body and paint, lurks a decent interior and engine .......


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Postby tr8 » 17 Jul 2009 01:43

Looks a bit like 'Space Invaders' meet 'Kit Car'....

Go for it Ron, probably gets good gas mileage with that 327...

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Postby PeterTR7V8 » 17 Jul 2009 01:47

The lights are atrocious but I like the rest.

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Postby adurand » 17 Jul 2009 03:34

I agree with Peter, the lights look horrible. The sills and front spoiler also throw the look off in my opinion. If the bottom was left original or had the side skirts of a grinnall it would look pretty sweet (with a new paint job of course).

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Postby john mc nulty » 17 Jul 2009 04:35

I'm with Peter don't like the lights but rest looks ok

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Postby Wayne S » 17 Jul 2009 10:05

I LOVE IT!!! Not keen on the colour or those weird eyelid things but the reast is awesome. Looks like a different gearbox by the angle of the shifter?



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Postby Cobber » 17 Jul 2009 10:44

<font size="2"><font face="Comic Sans MS">That's enough to scare the bloody hens from laying eggs!
And scare the rooster into laying one!</font id="Comic Sans MS"></font id="size2">

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Postby jclay (RIP 2018) » 17 Jul 2009 15:04

Well, It has a Chevy 327 engine, so I am sure the trans is Chevy also.

They accentuated the swedge line of the car. I think the light would be acceptable with out the eye-shadow lids! Somebody call Mary-Kay!!

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Postby paul w » 17 Jul 2009 15:10

Kewl!Just needs a dirty great wing on the back and it'd be right up my
street,but as i always say,"i have no taste".

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Postby Rblackadar » 17 Jul 2009 16:32

That thing looks like HELL!!![xx(]

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Postby windy one » 17 Jul 2009 16:47

I kinda like the body kit, dislike the headlights and exhaust[:0]! And <b><i>really</i></b> dislike a Chevy motor [:(!]

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Postby REPLIC8 » 18 Jul 2009 16:22

Oh Dear!! There's no accounting for taste, each to there own I suppose.

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Postby fiveliters » 20 Jul 2009 04:14

Like the overall look of the car,dislike the headlight treatment and paintjob,and prob. would have gone with body-colored bumpers at that point.

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Postby PeterTR7V8 » 20 Jul 2009 04:15

I reckon it looks pretty close to Harris Mann's original sketches.

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Postby lebochet9 » 20 Jul 2009 19:48

First thing I thought was "Hotwheels" (I suppose thats Dinky or Corgi or Matchbox if you are 40 something)

I quite like it - apart from the "tunnel vision" headlights that is, and the fact that its white and the Chevy motor and the Wheels.....this could turn into one of those "What have the Romans ever done for us...." sketches..

But...I'm not sure I'd want to actually own it....

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