1980 Triumph TR7 Reviews, Pricing & Specs

Having just returned from living in London and being at the Royal College of Art, I wanted a car that reflected my new positionas a car designer ..... and as at that time you could only park a British Leyland car inside the gates of the Longbridge works, i badgered the post management car sales department for close to 2 months, until one night my Dad saw the car in the sales lot .... and the next morning i was at the sales kiosk, cheque in hand. I owned the car for 3 years or so, without any major hiccups …. Even if others had a terrible time with theirs …. MEA was always faithful ….. I met my first wife by using the chat up line " have you ever seen Birmingham through the sunroof of a TR7", while she was studying. I even parked it at night, in the Students Halls of Residence car park …. Which was a bit of a giveaway that it wasn't owned by a student …. And as a result, nearly got her kicked out of Halls. Then that Christmas, on the way home from work, I stopped on the Coventry Road, and bought a 7 ft Xmas tree …. Pushing in through the sunroof, and then driving through the centre of Birmingham, at rush hour, with 4 ft out of the top of the car. Unforynately later realising that it may have gone in easily …. as the branches folded up …. But of course they don't bend both ways, and so as we struggled to get it out, we lost 50% of the needles all over the seats. Until the day I sold it, there was always another needle appearing to add a little discomfort to every drive. I sold it to buy an XR3i, but had to drive a Marina Estate for a couple of months, as the TR sold too swiftly, to a hoon from Bromsgrove …. where it probably soon found its end. May 29, 2008