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Member ID: yeldray

Location: Chester, UN

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1977 Triumph Spitfire

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-609sec
  • Top Speed120mph
  • HP150
  • Weight-1lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

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    • Currently 3.0/5 Stars.

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Gavin’s Triumph Spitfire
“It's not a Spit, it's a Stag!”

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Hello. Here are a few photos of my car. It's a Triumph Stag with the original engine. I've personally had the car for about five years but it has been in the family since new. It was originally my grandfathers, then my fathers and then I took it on.

yeldray's 1977 Triumph Spitfire


This is my car taken whilst driving into Le Mans for the 2004 race. I'm not actually driving it as I took the photo. I took the photo from one of the friend's car who we went with, he has a Corvette! The next two photos are of me driving down the Mulsanne Straight, but not at 200mph.
yeldray's 1977 Triumph Spitfire yeldray's 1977 Triumph Spitfire
yeldray's 1977 Triumph Spitfire yeldray's 1977 Triumph Spitfire
The photo above on the left shows three of the cars we went in while the photo on the right was taken whilst waiting for the ferry back home. Some very impressive motors were in the que, the best was naturally mine! Click here to read the story of our trip to Le Mans I wrote for the owner's club magazine.
yeldray's 1977 Triumph Spitfire yeldray's 1977 Triumph Spitfire
The two photos above are the interior and the 3.0 V8 engine of the car. The next two are photos of its least graceful moments after the diff had seized at 50mph!
yeldray's 1977 Triumph Spitfire yeldray's 1977 Triumph Spitfire
Plan to post more and make this page more interesting and add pages as time goes on. Thanks for looking, will update this very poor page soon!

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Jameroz  

Posted by: Jameroz

04/24/2005 12:00PM

Wow, nice looking Triumph. Come check out my TR7.

yeldray  

Posted by: yeldray

12/16/2004 05:25AM

Thanks tr6driver. Guessing that you live in the States there are a few there. It was a failure in the States when it was designed with the American market in mind, the V8, roll bar, bumpers, etc. It 'failed' here to in a way, it summed up perfectly the problems with the British car industry in the 1970s.

TR6driver  

Posted by: TR6driver

11/29/2004 05:48PM

That car looks great. Ive never seen one in person before.

pumajonny_gsr  

Posted by: pumajonny_gsr

11/12/2004 04:04PM

nice triumph, I like the T top. My first car was a '79 MGB, learned a lot from it. keep up the good work

yeldray  

Posted by: yeldray

11/13/2004 05:41AM

Thanks, I know! There wasn't an option in the list for a Stag and it wouldn't let me clear it. So I'm stuck with a Stag/Spitfore hybrid. Trying to keep up the good work, she needs the clutch replacing now after the trip to Le Mans. Can't afford it yet so still driving it until the clutch finally goes. Also away for the winter now.

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Member ID: yeldray

Location: Chester, UN