1974 Triumph TR6 – Car and Parts For Sale
1974 Triumph TR6 – Color: Mimosa
Right now I’m at the best offer stage. This is the car I kept for 37 years thinking I’d restore it but never did. I’m still trying to round up all of the parts I have and get pictures of them and the car posted on this page so people can see what I have. So if you see something you want, make an offer. Later on I may have specific prices shown.
Contact:
tr6@pb-space.com
St. Louis, MO
Items for sale.
- The Car– Lots of pictures, details … the good, bad, and the ugly.
- TR6 factory/steel hardtop (made 1971-1976 ?).
- York A/C unit for a TR6 (dealer add-on, 1974).
- Nardi (Triumph emblem) steering wheel (made 1975).
- TR6-related publications.
The Car – 1974 Triumph TR6
The car runs and is drivable, to an extent, but it’s a bit in disarray/worn out/disassembled/neglected. It’s the car I was going to restore but never did. I haven’t been driving it for some years now and I’m selling it as an expected full restoration/project car. You’ll need to trailer it home.
Serial number: CF17130 U 0 (Built January 1974.)
Miles: 84378 (Original/Still on 1st time around on the odometer.)
Exterior Color: Mimosa (yellow) – Paint code 64. (Available years 1973 – 1976.)
Interior Color: Trim code 63 (brown).
Original factory options with this car: Laycock J-type overdrive – Works in 3rd and 4th gears. Electrically operated via a column-mounted switch.
Original dealer add-on: Air conditioning – Manufactured by York. Everything is stripped off the car except the compressor mount on the engine. But if you’re looking for a car with a period A/C unit (vintage vents, controller, and all of the other parts: condenser, fan, harness, etc…) I’ve got it.
Other factory options: Steel hardtop – Bought separately, not original with this car. Stripped down (at one point I was going to get it ready to paint) but the glass and gaskets are in good shape. I’ve got the chrome and vents. The headliner is gone.
Pictures and further details.
- The car from a distance.
- The bad: Exterior closeups – Dents / Rust
- The worse: Floorboard rust.
- Undercarriage movies.
- Windscreen/windshield.
- The interior / seats / dash.
- The engine compartment.
- The boot/trunk.
- Miscellaneous includes.
- Return to main menu.
The car from a distance.
I don’t remember if I put this ragtop on or where it came from. The vinyl is in good shape. Like with all Triumphs (I’ve owned more than one), the fit is mediocre/a struggle.
The top’s isinglass is clouded and stained. Triumph rear windows zip down.
Not a great picture, but notice the “Overdrive” badge. The exhaust is stainless steel (Falcon from the Roadster Factory).
The redlines hold air just fine. But they’re long past being safe tires.
On horizontal surfaces, the paint is generally chalky and faded. I’ve taken a magnet to this car. I’ve never found any putty.
Nice looking, even-width bonnet/hood gaps. I really don’t find any evidence that this car has been in any sort of significant accident.
Exterior closeups – Dents and rust.
I bought this car in 1988 and was at least the third owner. The first owner (I know of lived) in southern Missouri. The second owner lived in central Missouri.
All of the rust you see in these pictures had started before I bought the car. I drove it as my fair-weather daily driver for the first 3 years or so. Since then (over 30 years) I’ve kept this car garaged and bone dry. I doubt that whatever price I get for this car will cover what I paid to keep it dry (storage units, renting neighbor’s garages).
Besides these closeups, you can look for these same issues in the profile pictures above.
Driver’s side, rear.
Driver’s side, rear deck.
Driver’s side, front wheel fender.
Passenger’s side, front wheel fender. Somehow these are dents punched up from below.
The floorboards.
Anyone who has seen many Triumphs knows the scenario.
- The brake or clutch master cylinder develops a leak.
- Hydraulic fluid drips down the pedal and pools on the floorboards.
- The hydraulic fluid strips the paint off the floorboards, exposing metal.
- The ragtop is never 100% waterproof.
- Water gets in, pools on the floor. The carpeting gets wet and stays wet.
- Sooner or later, you’ve got rust.
This car has that, admittedly in a bad way, with my point being– This isn’t rust spreading from the underside (frame, etc…) this is floorboard rust (due to the above scenario) with the rust first starting in the interior of the car. The undercarriage hasn’t been affected like the floorboards have.
So you can see the extent of things:
- I put a lamp underneath the car so its light shows through the rust holes (the pictures below).
- Separately, I put the lamp on driver’s seat and took movies from below. Here are those undercarriage movies.
Driver’s side floorboard.
A second picture of the driver’s side floorboard.
This is the passenger side floorboard. Some surface rust, but no rust-throughs. That discoloration on the horizontal wall is Triumph carpet adhesive.
The car’s frame/undercarriage.
These are movies of the car’s undercarriage. A couple of things about them:
- Taking these movies was very hit or miss. I just put my phone on a strip of cardboard and slid it around underneath the car. You can’t really tell what you’re filming when you do that.
- In places where the movie stalls, it’s not that I’m trying to show you something in particular. It’s just a place on my garage floor where the cardboard strip didn’t slide smoothly.
- Similar to the photos above, I had a lamp shining (from above) so the rust holes on the driver’s floorboard would show better.
- Just getting these files formatted correctly and posted was quite an effort for me. I get that I can probably do better and will try again after I get everything else about this car documented.
Driver’s side undercarriage (the side with the floorboard rust holes). The movie starts at front wheel and works back to rear wheel.
Passenger’s side undercarriage. The movie starts at front wheel and works back to rear wheel.
Rear of car. The movie starts at the driver’s rear wheel and moves over to the passenger side.
The engine compartment area. The movie starts at the driver’s front wheel and moves over to the passenger side.
Windshield | Windscreen
The windshield is in good shape. No cracks, chips, or fogging.
Car interior / Seats / Dash
The Triumph interior trim number is #63 (brown).
I found some eyeball vents at a junkyard once and put them on because I liked them. However, I still have the original dash vents that came with the car.
The vinyl door panels are still somewhat intact. Both roll windows work.
A better view of the seats. I guess the steering wheel is on upside down. I’ve got a 1975 (Triumph) Nardi if you’re looking for a period add-on.
I never did understand how the headrest pillars worked.
I’ve got the “speaker” panels for the transmission tunnel (next picture).
Transmission tunnel speaker panels. These mount behind the dash center pillar.
I think the only original Triumph feature I don’t have for this car is a Leyland radio. Although, if you like cassette players there’s one mounted in the glove box.
The wooden dash is in pretty good shape, although it has a splotchy appearance in some areas (like the glove box door). You can see the two cracks in the plastic dash. All dash gauges and switches work.
The overdrive switch arm on the column further confirms that this car has overdrive (J-type).
I put in the carpet, it wasn’t that great when new (Victoria British). The rear vinyl panel is in reasonable shape. A pair of rear speakers.
The engine compartment.
Just some notes about things under the hood:
- The carbs look cleaner than the rest of the engine because they were rebuilt by the Roadster Factory, maybe 15 years ago. About the same time when I stopped driving this car regularly.
- You might notice that the engine mount for the York air conditioner compressor is still on the car. I took the compressor off decades ago and put a stock fan belt on so its pulley is out of the loop.
- You probably can’t tell but the exhaust header is the car’s original one, whereas everything on further back is replacement stainless steel (Falcon, Roadster Factory). The shop that put the newer exhaust parts on didn’t want to mess with the header’s bolts. I’ve got the stainless header (picture below), so when the car is rebuilt it can be put on.
- FYI: If things look off to you, the engine emissions hosing on the ’74 was different than the years before or after.
Yeah, cheapo Walmart battery. (How are the mighty fallen.)
Those aren’t dents in the bonnet but paint rub-throughs (hosing?), you can tell by looking at this picture.
I took the A/C compressor, condenser, & fan off years ago but still have them.
The stainless exhaust header, never put on.
The trunk/boot.
There’s plenty of grime and Triumph carpet adhesive back here but there’s zero rust of any significance.
Original scissor jack and crank. I have the original lug wrench too. That black square is the original wood shelf that covers over the spare.
Another (no longer safe) old redline.
Driver’s side.
Passenger’s side.
That’s the standard luggage rack you see on Sixes. I think technically it was a dealer add-on.
Miscellaneous included stuff.
I took this car on road trips enough that I always carried necessities in the trunk so I could get home: Fuel pump, alternator, wheel bearings, coil, points, condenser, plugs, thermostat, other stuff. You’re welcome to them.
I also have some things you work on the car with: Spring compressor (Roadster Factory design), ColorTune, Uni-Syn carb tool, plug for centering the clutch plate, compression tester, etc…
Steel/Factory hardtop.
Obviously the hardtop is from a different TR6. It’s color is Pimento, which I think was available for the years 1971-1976. (I’ve got the glass, gasketing, and chrome, see below.)
I took the glass out because at one time I thought I was going to go ahead and have it painted.
I’ve got the chrome pieces. See below.
This is a scuff and small dent. It’s on the driver’s side, over the window area. You can see it in the previous picture. (The dent/scuff is just the white mark in the black circle. Anything outside that is just light glare or my reflection/shadow while taking the picture.)
I’ve got the gasketing. See below.
I’ve got the vent covers, see below.
The headliner is long gone. But I do have the metal struts that the cloth was stretched over. See below.
I also have some mounting hardware and the vents. See below.
Here’s the glass. All original. Nothing’s fogged. Original gasketing, all in decent shape.
Original Triumph Triplex Glass.
Side glass panels.
Rear glass.
The three rods on the left are headliner rods. The next three are side and rear chrome strips. That’s a new headliner gasket (Roadster Factory).
Hardtop chrome trim (for the rear wings), vents, and some mounting hardware.
York A/C unit for a TR6 (dealer add-on, 1974).
By the time I bought this car, the A/C unit had probably been non-operational for a few years. I ended up taking it off.
I’m not so sure anyone really fools with these things but rather just replaces them. But if you’re looking for period parts for authenticity (vintage vents, A/C controller), I’ve got all of them.
Driver side under dash vent.
Passenger side under dash vent.
A/C controller, along with harness and condenser and blower fans.
Evaporator.
Condenser with fan mounts.
Compressor mount on engine.
Nameplate on the compressor.
A/C compressor.
Nardi (Triumph emblem) steering wheel (1975).
This steering wheel was a dealer add-on on a 1976 Spitfire I owned. When I sold the car, I took this as a memento. What I don’t have is a steering wheel hub adapter. You can find those on ebay for whatever model Triumph you might put this wheel on.
The steering wheel is heavily urethaned(?) laminated wood. The spokes portion of the wheel is aluminum. The Triumph emblem horn button is plastic and has a chromed ring that goes around it.
I washed the wheel but didn’t polish it. So right now it has a 1970-1980s patina. (I drove this wheel 10 years.) The finish on the wood portion looks pristine.
Made in November 1975. The dealer put it on my 1976 Spit when I bought it.
“Nardi Torino. Made in Italy”
TR6 related manuals, etc…
I’ve been out of the loop about TR6 stuff long enough not to know if any of this stuff is still readily available or not. Anyway, here’s what I’ve accumulated and am ready to part with. If you’re interested in something, please inquire.
I was surpised to find this in the trunk. It’s the original owner’s manual for the car (1974 TR6). You can see it’s been water damaged. I think I noticed that it doesn’t have its cover any more.
These are the books everyone needs.
Haynes carburettor manual. | Evidently I belonged to/subscribed to some national TR6 organizations over the years. | 6-Pack | Vintage Triumph. These are probably from the 1990’s.
My first Triumph was a 1976 Spitfire. This is the showroom brochure for the Spitfire from that year. These pamphlets were maybe 4 or 6 pages (I haven’t had it out of the frame in years). I thumbed through this thing a zillion times. Because of that it’s in OK condition but not pristine.
Of course the car I really wanted back then was the TR6. This is the showroom brochure for the 1976 model year (I guess the last year for the Six). Once again, it’s the complete multi-page brochure. It’s in OK condition but not pristine.