Vehicle Description
1975 Triumph TR6 - Imported from Britain to Arizona- Two Owners -
Fully Restored in 1999 - All Known Ownership History - Mechanically
Fresh (Please note: If you happen to be viewing this 1975 Triumph
TR6 on a website other than our Garage Kept Motors site, it's
possible that you've only seen some of our many photographs of this
vehicle due to website limitations. To be sure you access all the
more than 150 photographs, please go to our main website:
GarageKeptMotors.) The TR6 was in a class of its own in the 1970s.
(More than) a quarter of a century on, it still has few competitors
that can offer so much and for such a modest price. �€"Classic
Motoring, June 2011 In many ways, the Triumph TR6 is the last in a
long line of affordable open-air British sports cars legends: MGs,
Spitfires, Austin Healeys. Opinions on the relative merits of each
can generate debate among brand loyalists, but there's general
agreement that open-air, top-down motoring is an experience the
British perfected. And by the time 1975 rolled around and TR6
production was ending with nearly 92,000 cars produced over the
years, performance ,comfort, and reliability had been nicely
engineered into the model. As Classic Motoring explained... On
performance: Power delivery from the six-pot engine is smooth and
refined, and more than sufficient to make the tail squat down when
you boot the throttle. The ride is sportscar firm, which will feel
harsh compared to a modern family hack but never comes close to
threatening your fillings. The front anti-roll bar helps make the
handling more predictable, but the tail can still get skittish, wet
or dry. The good news is that feedback from the road to the driver
is excellent, so hustling a TR6 becomes a test of driver skill and
control rather than a lottery. The servo-assisted brakes are
generally reassuring, and can be made even better with use of a
modern friction material. If cruising is your game, the overdrive
is geared to place 100mph easily within your grasp. And there is
more than enough torque available to dispatch motorway overtaking
with nothing more than a flick of the switch into direct drive. On
comfort: The fixtures and fittings are not quite opulent, but they
do have a fair sense of luxury about them. They are traditional too
with the... large rev counter and speedo dead ahead and minor
gauges mounted centrally harping right back to the TR2. The seats
are comfortable and durable, although the backrests are shorter
than you might expect. The car's size means there is never any
danger of getting that traditional bum-six-inches-off- the-road
feeling. Instead it feels more of a grand tourer than an out and
out hell-raiser. On reliability: ... once sorted and in tune, then
a TR6 is a relatively easy car to own, with simple mechanical
underpinnings that lend themselves to DIY maintenance. The
beautiful bright-red TR6 offered here is a well cared-for,
two-owner example originally imported to, and owned in Arizona. And
a very cool story to go with it. In 1999, our client was
vacationing in Phoenix with a friend and saw this car for sale in
the local paper. He called up the seller and discovered the car was
in his garage only 2 blocks away. Our client went for a short walk,
took the car for a test drive, and bought it on the spot. The
seller was the original British owner who had the car imported to
Arizona after his retirement. Right before he put it up for sale,
the car was repainted in base coat, clear coat in the gorgeous red
paint you see today. The car has had recent mechanical refreshing
consistent with the attention paid to the car over its 80,000 miles
(a very conservative 2,000 miles per year on average). Exterior
paint, brightwork and styled steel wheels retain excellent gloss,
and interior surfaces including the wood dash, Smiths instruments,
perforated black-leather upholstery surfaces all show well. The
floor-mounted four-speed manual transmission shifter knob featuring
the