Alan's Triumph Related Blog!

This is a running blog of my life....... which mainly seems to revolve around Triumph motor cars. At the moment, I am restoring "DEL 33", which is the prototype Stag Estate, built by Ian "Del" Lines of Atlantic Garages, Weston Super Mare. This car was featured in "Motor" in 1973 and was the start of the Lines Stag saloon and estates of which he built approx 26 of.

Saturday, 13 September 2008

Getting there........

I drove the estate today for the first time since the engine rebuild.......... all I can say is wow.......... I am so pleased with my little...

Monday, 8 September 2008

Engine rebuild......... FINISHED!!!!

So, put the rad back in, reassembled all the front suspension including the new power rack. Topped up all the fluid then realised I couldn...

Saturday, 6 September 2008

Engine Rebuild Part MCMXXVXIIX !!

So, today I needed to get on with putting the engine back together......... so it was raining! Figures. A bit of playing and here we have a ...

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Rocker Shaft Rebuild

Sounds simple don't it.................... strip, clean and replace the rocker shaft. Hmmmmm. Okay, so, I wrote it all down, exactly whi...

Your Piston's coming to the boil!

So, collected the new piston from Mr Papworth last night (many thanks Mike!), I met him at The Griff Classic car meet (informal pub car park...

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Engine Rebuild Part 3.......... Disaster!!!

So, today the plan was to get the bottom end on the engine back rebuilt. First problem came when I put the first piston in with its new ring...

Saturday, 16 August 2008

Stafford TSSC Show

Went to the TSSC National at Stafford today. To be honest, it was really very quiet........ but the 2000 Register and CT members managed to ...

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