Car collectors usually go for a particular brand or type of automobile. In this case, the seller must be an aficionado of British sports cars as he/she has two vintage Triumphs for sale along with a bunch of assorted parts. Neither car has run in years and the parts collection includes engines, transmissions, and various body pieces. All of this is in Telford, Pennsylvania, and available here on craigslist for the best offer (except for a TR3 which is $3,300). Thanks for the tip of this menagerie, Chuck Foster!
1959 Triumph TR3
The TR3 was produced between 1955-62 by the Standard-Triumph Motor Company of Coventry, England. It was a traditional roadster that replaced the TR2 and was succeeded by the TR4. 75,000 of the cars were built, making it Triumph’s third best-selling auto in the TR range. It could often be found winning in races and rallies across Europe and North America. Later versions of the car used a 2,138-cc inline-4 engine. We’re told this 1959 edition has been stored in a barn since the 1990s and both the motor and steering are now frozen. The seller is looking to get $3,300 out of this one.
1950 Triumph TR2000
These cars were said to have been built between 1946-49, so perhaps the seller’s version is a TR2000 carryover model from 1949 or is older than he/she thinks. Since there is no title to the car, that could very well be the case. The auto got its name from its engine size as is often the case with British cars. The seller says it’s a left-hand drive vehicle with a straight, sold body, but the dash and some trim pieces are missing. The TR will also be sold for the best offer, but the seller doesn’t mention a starting point. The extensive parts we’re told are available include some from an Austin Healey 3000, a BugEye Sprite, MGTD, MGA, a Spitfire, and more. Interested parties will have to press the seller for further info and target prices.
Seller is obviously not a car salesman….
More pictures would be great! Triumph Roadster 2000 took me back to Uni days, boy I wish I had time, space, and possibly money to retrieve it! Don’t think they were ever really called TRs (except the VIN on mine was TRA995). TR2 was the first true TR. The motor was actually 2088cc, a Standard Vanguard motor.
The Roadster was probably a 49 sold late and registered in the states as a 50. If it’s truly a LHD it would be one of less than about 150 LHDs build out of the 2000 Roadsters built between 48 and 49. Needs lots of work and parts are not cheap as most will have to come from England as there are only about 100 of these in the US and few are parts cars. Putting in the drive train from a TR2/3/4 would be cheaper but would result in shifter on the floor vs on the column. Lack of pictures make this a tough sell…
Really. It’s as if seller doesn’t care.
Seller does care (needs money). Seller is just lazy and that’s why it’s on CL. 30 years of collecting parts and only 3 pictures. *eyeroll*
But don’t forget the mainly aluminium body which means body parts should be okay. Main problem is probably replacing the ash frame inside the body as that requires a lot of carving and is bound to be shot by now.
Of course we have rusty steel front wings, but that’s standard on these cars!
Wha else is in that barn besides those two cars.
As Mr. Pilcher pointed out, it’s probably a 1949 that sat until finally selling in 1950. The car probably spent it’s entire life in PA, and since PA required the car’s year to be established by the year it was sold, yeah, it sold in 1950.
When I lived on my farm, I was so close to the MD/PA border I could walk over the line in less than a few minutes. I’ve seen many PA sold new cars, especially foreign ones, with the model year listed not one, but several years later. I knew a man who bought a leftover 1956 Packard Clipper from the original selling dealer in PA in 1962. Because the dealer was still selling Mercedes-Benz cars, and the original PA title listed the car as a 1962 Packard Clipper because the Certificate of origin was from Studebaker-Packard, Packard Division, and that car company was still in business in 1962.
This is one of the reasons why the federal DOT rules on titles were introduced in 1968, so titles from all 50 states were uniform in design, shape, and information therein.