It was a glorious June Sunday in 2023, with temps in the mid seventies and low humidity, complimented by gentle breezes. It was perfect convertible weather, and this gentleman was out making the most of it in his Triumph TR6, painted the shade known as Mimosa.
It's a later one, '74-'77 as attested by the grotesque rubber bumper warts required to meet U.S. safety standards.
While the relatively few TR6's of this vintage sold back in Old Blighty featured Lucas mechanical fuel injection, American market cars (by far the majority of TR6's sold) relied on a pair of Stromberg carbs to feed fuel-air mixture to the slightly undersquare, cast iron, pushrod straight six. This, along with a lower compression ratio to satisfy EPA regs, resulted in 105 SAE net horsepower from 152 cubes of displacement, down from the original's 150hp.
Acceleration, consequently, was hardly eyeball-flattening. Most tests reported 0-60 times in the ten-to-eleven second range, as opposed to the 8-ish second runs posted by Autocar. Still, everything feels zippy when your ass is only inches from the pavement. Ask any MG driver.
These photos were snapped with a Nikon D700 and 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6G zoom lens.
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