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Great car I wish I had one❤😂😂

Thanks for that! I’d love to own a stag.❤

I bought one (with the same coulour) on sunday. Tomorrow I hope tp get the new plates. In case the weather will be good, I will pick up my son from school. I bet he will be very happy. He likes to ride with it. Wish you all the best...

Did you forget the spitfire?

I am 67, and when just 15 there was a TV program called Owen MD. The credits had a stag driving to the Music of Sleepy Shores. Would love to see that footage again. th-cam.com/video/T_NHIP-yLJ0/w-d-xo.html

Great video Chris! My closest encounter was buying a mk II Toyata Celica from a bloke who also owned a Stag, very nice cars.

A good vid, but I can't help wondering why your car doesn't really sound like a Stag. I owned one back in the 80s, loved it, and enjoyed the camaraderie of the enthusiastic owners club. Sadly, had to sell her when I left the RN and a subsequent owner swapped out the original V8 for a Triumph straight 6. I'd defo have another, but I've recently, (and finally,) acquired an example of my life long dream car, from the same era, a Citroen SM.

I had two of them great cars

If they had used the 3.5ltr Buick engine it would have been a massive winner.

Great video. Great to see Yafford Mill being worked on too as my grandparents regularly took me there as a young child. Maybe I'll drive my Stag there too one day....

Engine note sounds like a Triumph 2.5 PI

Watching this to drum up some enthusiasm for restoring the 74' Mallard I have festering in a barn in France for the last 8 years. Need to haul it back. Will bring it to the IOW one day as my Dad is in Sandown. Could be a couple of years though!

Fantastic video! Great information. Thank you.

Triumph should've tried the Daimler 250 V8 engine. Would've been ideal in every respect.

Great Video and humour Chris. I have a 73 in a similar yellow. I bought mine with the Rover 3.5, but put the rover R380 5 speed box and BMW 2.93 diff in as well. Your dashboard looks identical to mine, burr wood grain and black bezels. Out of curiosity is your engine a 6cyl or a different V8.

Sounds like he has swapped out the V8 for a 2.5 litre six to me

Excellent production of my favourite car

Was overheating the only problem and how was it fixed? Some people put Rover 3.5 lumps in. why do this?

Great example, great setting, filming and presentation.

Excellent video, very clever and you have gone to so much trouble and detail to make this!! I have always admired the Stag since I was a lad in the 70s despite my dad back in the day saying it was BL rubbish - it is just so beautiful, and the engine and exhaust note is to die for. They were in the 70s and still are now in 2021 a special car!

The I of W looks like its in a time warp....beautiful

Long on the A STTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGG .............(said jezza).............

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Triumph Stag best looking and best sounding car ever made

This is not a Stag V8 engine!

Great video very informative and creative. Well done Chris

Splendid vid with fun cutaways and the island looking great as ever. I always wanted a Stag but ended up with a MGC as I wasn’t mechanically adept or monied enough for a shagging staaaag! Good to see that hardier types are keeping the 7000 survivors going, I gather some managed to shoehorn the Rover V8 as a less troublesome workaround. Wishing you many more smiling miles in that golden wonder.

I owned a 1976 Stag when I was 21. I am 58 now lol. One of the cars I deeply regret selling. A beautiful car that when I occasionally see now excites me still.

Great sports car, brings back memories of my brother rebuilding one it was a sweet purring vehicle with style. Thank you for sharing this important landmark in history.

Terrible car

Great !!

Great vid. You always see 'crinklies' driving them these days.

Great video work. Lovely car.

Always loved the Triumph Stag. Great video in a beautiful car and on the fabulous Isle of Wight.

for me this is more of a memento moria: from the early 70's: my friends George and Betsy visited us, driving around in their new Stag on our small estate, somewhere in the southeast of Friesland / Netherlands.Beautiful sunshine covering the green painted Stag when driving around the corner. I did drove a Dino in those years as well as a nice Lancia (both rusted away...).. Everybody has gone now except for me and even the estate has been sold for many years. Nostalgia: Far away and long ago, I think now as a 75 year old single person. God bless everyone who has since disappeared from this earth and made us happy for a while.

We enjoyed this so much. Your editing skills and voice overs are brilliant. Well done. Susan Smith

A very well produced video. Hate to be critical but the only thing it doesn't capture is the sound of the Stag. For me, the best sounding production car engine of all time. With its unique firing order the Stag is sublime. Somehow the sound of the Stag in the video sounds more like a 1950's six cylinder. Get a nice recording of the Stag that does justice and edit that in and this would be a perfect tribute!

Very nice video on a beautiful car I love and I own since 1975. Thank you Chris from France. What a fantastic story it could have been if its design was properly finished at the time: engine cooling system, undersized engine timing chain, dual metal reactions / rust on bolts, poor quality metal used everywhere. I love this Stag but every trip is an adventure (you don't know if it will drive you back home). On mine, I had 2 new motors, 2 rear axles, 2 power steering, many water pumps, one overdrive repair, even a steel wheel had a crack and I detected it while driving in the Pyrenees mountains. Maintenance was a mechanics nightmare (they would see me coming with apprehension not knowing for how many months the car will stay there waiting for spare parts (rear axle, unavailable, special ball bearings unavailable,...long list). Removing bolts was also a nightmare (no surface treatment meant bolts will seize or come off with the thread).

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Very nicely filmed video. It's Still a stunning looking car today.... some sports cars of that era haven't aged well at all...the Stag has. Its classy and gorgeous! Still dream of owning one..

Nice tribute... Sounds like a straight six

excellant video - thats my ol stag, i do regret selling now.

Something strange about this car. You describe the overheating issues and show some kind of fake steam when pulling up the bonnet. We could not see the engine, the camera shots of the exhaust and car driving by doesn't sound right. So is the car of yours a Stag V8 ? Surely one of the greatest stag features it's the note of its engine, I just didn't hear that with yours. I could be wrong .. but as a fellow Stag owner yours sounds completely different to mine.

Cracking video Chris with all its faults just a great piece of design happy 50th anniversary Triumph Stag

What a brilliant video - and a nice nod to Top Gear the way it was filmed :-)

A tip of the hat from a fellow Stagist in the USA, nice video!

Super video. Bravo Sir.

A great drive round and perfect driving roads for our beautiful Triumph Stag. Very nice video Chris. Cheers Bob (SOC member and Stag owner for the last 40 years. My Stag is a 1976 model in red known as the Red Devil owing to its 666R registion. Keep safe and well Chris all the best Bob Essex Area.

Hi Chris, excellent camera work, nice commentary, well done, an excellent presentation.