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Dad's unrestored Triumph TR3 drive-around before sale
My dad's turned 85, and decided it's time to sell his TR3A. We kids decided to take it out for a drive. Really nice original car! We're making a web page for him at www.falconworks.net/TR3 for info before it goes to auction, if interested in knowing more.
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  • @MarkBedford-p2h
    @MarkBedford-p2h 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fine example.

  • @North49191
    @North49191 ปีที่แล้ว

    not unrestored

  • @Channel-os4uk
    @Channel-os4uk 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lift the dot..

  • @editname2181
    @editname2181 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Makes you proud to be English proper car perfect for the English countryside! Or Arizona 😊

  • @Schlipperschlopper
    @Schlipperschlopper 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Damn it, we support the criminal in Moscow. Putin can only be defeated if we implement an immediate energy-saving lockdown. No more private trips. Heating only at night and only one room with light and electricity, you can simply set that at the fuse box....Cities could, for example, switch off every second street light and companies could switch off their neon signs. We can initially limit driving to pure business trips and hospital trips, etc...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop driving now!!!!!!!!!

  • @andreegross
    @andreegross 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My first car was a 58 TR-3 (in 1967.) People kept stealing my original Triumph shift knobs, and Dad made a few trips to the junkyard for replacements for me. I finally gave up and drove it with no knob at all.

  • @Hofffrog
    @Hofffrog 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great car keep it in the family

  • @beegee22
    @beegee22 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is just gorgeous! Well cared for.

  • @jeanshepherd7185
    @jeanshepherd7185 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like the look of old cars, but once I see driving videos like this, I lose interest in owning one. (another one, any more)

  • @guillemodred3938
    @guillemodred3938 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I also once used to cruise around Tucson in an old Triumph. I miss them both.

  • @stewartw.9151
    @stewartw.9151 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    "No Chinese parts" - I know exactly what you mean!

  • @G56AG
    @G56AG 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looked and sounded like it was in very good condition. You should have kept it in the family.

  • @NakedUndone
    @NakedUndone 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sounds incredibly smooth for such an old car!

  • @Derek_S
    @Derek_S 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I knew it had to be from somewhere like Arizona as soon as the garage door opened having read that it was unrestored. I had two TR2s, a TR3 and a TR3A in the late 1960's/early 70's. The first three all went to the junkyard due to rust. Only the TR3A was still in good enough condition to be sold on when I was finished with it. This was in England though, where the climate is very damp and they rusted really badly. At the time, my friend and I both in our teens/early twenties kept buying the old TRs because they were the cheapest 100MPH sports cars available to us.

  • @sr633
    @sr633 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I owned and drove a TR 3 for 4 years. Black with black interior. No hard top with regular wheels. Lucas fog lamps and a CB radio ! lol

  • @kimhorton6109
    @kimhorton6109 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a car! I had a Chevrolet Nomad for 40+ years but the lines on these cars are just mesmerizing. Art on the move indeed. I gave up my Nomad because my kids had grown up, my wife had died and I just wasn’t driving it any more. Giving up a family classic only happens in the end of life of a family, it’s never easy but I can understand it. Now, at 71, I am looking for an antique sports or very small car to enjoy in my declining years. These sure look like the ticket

  • @10wanderer
    @10wanderer 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well 60 year old car , 60 year old engine design , 100 mph and 30 miles per gallon ( english) Jeezus !!

    • @NakedUndone
      @NakedUndone 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      No overdrive. Lousy for highway driving...

    • @stevenmeyer6233
      @stevenmeyer6233 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NakedUndone Some owners have added electric overdrive and it works like having a fifth gear. As far as highway driving, I have a 2001 Miata, bought new (5 speed) and yeah, high rpms on the highway, but I don't mind. I have been cross country in it twice and still love it. Hope to have it till I die.

  • @TRRehab
    @TRRehab 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fun to drive

  • @drspaseebo410
    @drspaseebo410 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh Boy ! Whatta car !

  • @raymondnoya5653
    @raymondnoya5653 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sweet !

  • @axiomist1076
    @axiomist1076 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why the hell don't you keep it ?!!!

  • @harrisonmooney7007
    @harrisonmooney7007 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    What do you mean unrestored? it has many modifications

    • @ExileNJ
      @ExileNJ 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Harrison Mooney Well, doesn't that mean modified and not restored?

    • @Hofffrog
      @Hofffrog 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really, please show me what are modifications on this car?

    • @motors5153
      @motors5153 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      that baby must had spent 55 years in a heated garage and rarely driven. they didn't look that good on the showroom floor.

    • @G56AG
      @G56AG 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Modifications have nothing to do with being unrestored. Restoration is taking an old worn out, often rusted out car and restoring it to like new. One modification I saw was the wind wings, in a restoration they would take those off and sell them or throw them in the trash, since a good restoration tries to make a car as much like it did when it left the factory as possible, no aftermarket add ons.