Triumph Vitesse!!!

[markpentre]

just Bought this for restiration over the winter. Straight six engine. Any one on here Have one??

 

[Netherfield]

https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/vehicle/triumph_vitesse_2-litre

Not many left of those.

 

[Paddington]

https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/vehicle/triumph_vitesse_2-litre

Not many left of those.

Good website !

 

[Gapples]

I do have a cousin, it'll be the same engine..

 

[Netherfield]

I do have a cousin, it'll be the same engine..View attachment 746902

My best man had one of those, with the 2.5 PI engine, he had a car offered with his job, so I said I'd buy the Triumph, on his way to bring it to me the injector pump ate itself, they were like rocking horse sh!t to find second hand, we toured or called every scrap yard in Yorkshire I think. He ended up selling the car to someone else who was going to make it into a 2000.

 

[Mursal]

We would have known that top car as a Triumph Herald with twin headlights. 2.5 over here was confined to Stag's and the very, very rare 2.5Pi as above. Only ever say one 2.5Pi owned by the local petrol station, that car saw driving ...

Keep on top of the bodywork you cant see, especially underneath.
Lovely car and two door, best of luck with it ...........

 

[Bramble]

I’ve got a TR6!!

2.5 PI straight six, drove it to Classic Le Mans and back in the summer with my 16 year old son as a bit of a road trip. It was the only one in the convoy that didn’t break down!

 

[Alternativedairy]

I've got a spitfire [emoji4] put a video up, turbo charged the engine [emoji23]

 

[Barleycorn]

Back in the day they used to say what time is it when two Triumphs pass each other, 10 past 10, (tin past tin). Amazing what creeps out of your brain from 50 years ago!!

 

[pauld]

Wish I still had mine. Yours would be one of last ones made. Much better suspension than earlier ones. Seem to remember rear diff was a weak point, all the Triumph straight sixes had a tendency to drop crank thrust washers plus the dreaded rot.
Great to work on with the full lift up bonnet. Fairly bomb proof and great fun.

 

[Paddington]

Chap I knew used to terrify rear passengers in his rag top by asking them to lean out and watch the rear wheels when cornering hard.

 

[Hawkes]

I think the Mk1 vitesse/herald/spitfire/GT6 chassis had a single top transverse leaf spring and no bottom wishbone, so it would corner until the critical point and then the whole wheel and hub tucked in under with drastic results. The Mk2 versions had a bottom wishbone added which stabilised the whole job. I was a Triumph fan and worked my way through all those and then the TR's . Favourite was TR4A, had a few of them and rather wish I had one now.
I had a Vitesse 2 litre (early ones were 1600 I think) at agric college in 70's swapped it for a series 2 Land Rover..... it was a pocket rocket and made a great noise.

 

[pycoed]

I think the Mk1 vitesse/herald/spitfire/GT6 chassis had a single top transverse leaf spring and no bottom wishbone, so it would corner until the critical point and then the whole wheel and hub tucked in under with drastic results. The Mk2 versions had a bottom wishbone added which stabilised the whole job. I was a Triumph fan and worked my way through all those and then the TR's . Favourite was TR4A, had a few of them and rather wish I had one now.
I had a Vitesse 2 litre (early ones were 1600 I think) at agric college in 70's swapped it for a series 2 Land Rover..... it was a pocket rocket and made a great noise.

Yes - it beggars belief that engineers could produce a really good double wishbone front suspension & then top it off with that abortion of a back end - a real Friday-afternoon-in-the-design-office job

 

[Ley253]

Wish I still had mine. Yours would be one of last ones made. Much better suspension than earlier ones. Seem to remember rear diff was a weak point, all the Triumph straight sixes had a tendency to drop crank thrust washers plus the dreaded rot.
Great to work on with the full lift up bonnet. Fairly bomb proof and great fun.

Fours were renowned for it too! Never a month went by without at least one triumph engine going to South Cerney for their magic repair!

 

[DeeGee]

I think the original Vitesse had a 1.6 engine?

All Heralds and the Vitesse had a turning circle of something ridiculous like 26’ and would turn on a sixpence, almost like a forklift truck.

The whole integral front end of bonnet and wings hinged upwards and forwards for easy engine accessibility. A truly revolutionary car in the 1960s.

 

[markpentre]

Any one on here possibily know of a decent roof for a vitesse/Herald???

 

[Mursal]

Soft or hard?

 

[markpentre]

Hard

 

[Mursal]

One on E-Bay but has a hold for a sunroof, give me a minute .........

Might be worse than the one you have click

Doesn't sound to dear?

 

[Cornish Rattler]

I’ve got a TR6!!

2.5 PI straight six, drove it to Classic Le Mans and back in the summer with my 16 year old son as a bit of a road trip. It was the only one in the convoy that didn’t break down!

Haha my bro did the same last year in his newly restored MGC, he went with his mate who was driving a newly restored Jaguar XJ6 mk2