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Looks a nice garage now the junk has been moved out of it.
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This along with the '58s are my favourite Cadulacs.

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If you want one car to last your lifetime this is it:

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But now L@@K

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Am I not a little a Chrysler guy, huh?

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Guess the wreck.

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fried onions wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2020 11:42 pm If you want one car to last your lifetime this is it:

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Buick-Super- ... SwjzdePETl
Stephen King based a book on one of those, From a Buick 8.
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Which was presumably named after the Dylan song
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The Reverend Bluejeans wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2020 11:25 pm They were all Convertibles though with the smog spec engine. If only they'd built a full fat version with both bodies, it would have been a winner. They could have axed the Dolomite in 1978 (not before time), dropped the O Series in and built nothing but TR7's at Canley. The Convertible would have been a big seller.
I bought a TR7 book years ago by David Knowles. Such was the in-fighting, there was no way Triumph engineers would have allowed the O-series in. They all wanted their heads banging together.
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The 16v Sprint engine obviously fits in without a trouble into the TR7. The extra power boost with little weight difference would have made it a good steer. Alas the Sprint engine wasn't the most hardy of units and reportedly cost Triumph a lot in warranty claims in the Dolomite.
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Like the Jag guys with the Rover V8 for the XJ40 although they had far more reason in my book.

I've got quite a few motoring books and a common theme is that the O series 'TR7' would have been badged a MG.
I've forgotten the codename it was given but seem to remember that there were a few running about. There was apparently also a turbo O series version but I can't remember how far that got. I guess that was for export to places where car tax increased exponentially for capacities over 2 litres. The Lynx development apparently was planned with both O series and the V8.
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