Highlights
- Older high-end restoration by marque specialists
- Bespoke CP engine upgrade producing approximately 175bhp
- Spent nine years as part of private museum collection under dehumidified storage
- Extensive history file from new, including original service book and handbook
- Recently recommissioned following long-term museum storage
- Scheduled for a professional tune and service at a top classic specialist in Glasgow prior to sale
- Only 16,000 miles since restoration and engine fitment
- Expensive AC Cobra three-eared wires with Dunlop SP tyres
- Full stainless steel fuel tank
The Appeal
The TR6 was the last of a certain type of roadster, one that is quintessentially British too. Thoroughly analogue, devoid of driver aids and with a powerful straight six beneath the lengthy bonnet, these cars are for people who love driving and love to actually drive the car.
If that’s you, then this car is worth your time because it is a TR6 that has taken that idea way beyond what Triumph could muster on its production lines. It now sports a 175bhp engine supplied by specialist Enginuity and featuring stage two cylinder head, fast road cam, extraction manifold, lightweight flywheel and Lumenition ignition. The differential and overdrive units were also rebuilt. That motor is the centrepiece of a high-end older restoration by Chestnut House Sports Cars, the Triumph and MG specialists in Cambridgeshire. The work is completed by a set of expensive AC Cobra three-eared wire wheels shod with quality Dunlop SP rubber. It is a testament to the car’s subsequent keepers that its Pimento Red paintwork and tan roof and interior present so well today.
For much of the car’s recent history it has been part of a private museum where it was dry-stored in a dehumidified environment. The vendor tells us that it has been recently recommissioned and is in very good working order. It is scheduled for a professional tune and service at a top classic specialist in Glasgow prior to sale
The vendor says:
“Not to be confused with a run of the mill TR6. This stunning bespoke individual example must be among the very best surviving today. The car comes from almost 9 years in a classic museum collection with its catalogue badge still on the window and remains in incredible condition. Now recommissioned. Boasting a complete from new history file and a very special performance upgrade. Particularly special is the ultra rare Cobra chrome wire wheel conversion complete with matching 195 x 65 R15 Dunlop SP Sport B8 tyres; an exceptional and bespoke addition to cope with this cars heightened performance.
“Between 1987-1988 this TR6 underwent a total restoration with every part of the car renewed or attended to. All work was carried out by Chestnut House Sports Cars, Triumph and MG specialists in Cambridgeshire. All parts were supplied by the TR Shop, and Cox and Buckley, TR specialists.
“CP engine No. 6700UE was supplied by Enginuity Sports and Performance Car Specialist, London. The car has covered a mere 16,000 miles since complete rebuild.
“Due to dehumidified storage, little use and being a museum item in a private collection the car remains in Grade 1 condition after nearly 40 years, testament to the superb quality of the historic restoration.”
Key Information
- Mileage: 2,473 miles indicated (total mileage believed to be higher)
- Country of registration: United Kingdom
- Technical inspection status: exempt
- Technical specs: 2.5-litre six-cylinder petrol injection, 4spd manual with overdrive, CP engine upgrade producing approximately 175bhp
- Paperwork: extensive history file from new, original service book and handbook, restoration invoices and build documentation, V5C, key, photos
- Upgraded throttle linkage - Overhead cross shaft system fitted
The Detail
- Restoration in 1987–1988 by Chestnut House Sports Cars, Cambridgeshire
- CP engine (No. 6700UE) supplied by Enginuity Sports and Performance Car Specialist, London
- Kenlowe fan fitted to manage increased engine output
- Gearbox, differential and overdrive rebuilt by Chestnut House Sports Cars
- Full waxoil rustproofing applied during the rebuild
- AC Cobra chrome wire wheels with three-eared nuts fitted in 1987, with invoice from the TR Shop
- Fitted with 195 x 65 R15 Dunlop SP Sport B8 tyres
- Interior re-trimmed with red Axminster carpet, walnut dashboard, inertia seatbelts, and leather-rimmed Moto-Lita steering wheel
- Pioneer stereo with quad speakers and boot-mounted multi CD player
- Tan roof with colour-coded tonneau cover
- Vendor states the walnut dashboard still looks as-new
- Recently recommissioned after approximately nine years in a private museum collection
- Finished in its original Pimento Red
The engine upgrade to CP included reworking to max bhp as fast road car including:
- Stage two cylinder head
- Fast road cam 83
- Extraction manifold with stainless steel twin exit exhaust
- Lumenition ignition kit
- Lightweight flywheel
- Laycock performance three-piece clutch
- Kenlowe fan to cope with increased performance
- Stainless steel fuel tank
Interior renewed including using TR Shop parts:
- New walnut dash
- Red top-quality Axminster carpet
- Inertia seatbelts
- Complete quality re-trim
- Pioneer stereo with quad speakers and boot mounted multi CD player
- Leather rimmed Moto-lita steering wheel
- Quality colour coded tonneau cover
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