Description
1968 TRIUMPH TR5
Registration Number: VGF 78F
Chassis Number: CP/ 2266
Recorded Mileage: 22, 580 miles
- In current family ownership for 25 years
- Three previous owners, ownership history from new
- Subject to from much previous restoration and maintenance work
This rare UK-delivered example was dispatched from the works in May 1968 via dealer H. R. Owen of London to its first owner in Maidstone, Kent, who kept his new sports car for nine years before selling it in 1977. The second owner (from nearby Byfleet) pressed the TR5 into daily transport until the early 1980s, at which point his work took him to Singapore and the Triumph remained in the garage at home. By the late 1990s it was clear the owner was not coming home, and so the TR5 was traded via a dealer to the third owner, Mr. John Powell from Christchurch in Dorset. Mr. Powell commissioned much restoration of the car’s bodywork, unfortunately later to have to sell the car to fund a building project. As such the current vendor’s family acquired the TR5 in 1998 and have kept it ever since. Although car was presentable and in good mechanical order, the new owner wanted to get it up to near concours standard, and so the TR5 was restored once more with new panels as required, replacement trim and chromework, and sundry other smaller items. Since completion the Triumph has been serviced annually, and dry stored when not in use.
Finished in its original shade of Wedgewood Blue with a black interior, and complete with current V5C and older V5 registration documents, and a thick file of bills for restoration works and replacement parts, this is clearly a well loved example of one of Triumph’s best efforts.
This motor vehicle will be sold at auction with Dore & Rees in Frome, Somerset, on Saturday 17th June 2023. For more details contact the Motoring Department via the above details.
