Club Triumph

Another TR5 up for auction soon at Brooklands.

I'm tempted to have a look at the car and go and have a bid for it

It's my favorite colour of Valencia Blue, with the desirable options of Wire Wheels, Over-drive and the Surrey top

Any one know of the car and what do you all think it will fetch?

Hi Gary,

May be worth contacting Roger Ferris of the TR Register.

I guess £35K+, but really need to view to make an accurate opinion.


Cheers.

Quoted from TRTOM2498

Hi Gary,

May be worth contacting Roger Ferris of the TR Register.

I guess £35K+, but really need to view to make an accurate opinion.


Cheers.

Hi Gary,

Very good.


As you know, that quality on the body and chassis will ultimately determine the asking price.  Chassis breast plate, trailing arm out riggers, etc.


Good luck.


Cheers.

Getting all excited about the Auction viewing tomorrow

Got a Mate coming with me to give me his opinion and if we both like it will be back on the Saturday to have a go for it?

Been sent some more information on what's been done during the Restoration, the engine's only had the top end done so will check Oil pressure, odd noises and also the Crank end float

Gearbox and Over-drive untouched

Will need to have a look what the Several thousand pounds of receipts where for.

Will keep you all posted

Is your pocket starting to smoulder?

Quoted from cliftyhanger

Is your pocket starting to smoulder?

This on car and classic recently

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C652454

Andy

I don't see any price clues on that (other than expensive!).  If you have to ask you probably can't afford it........  

Nick

Hi,

One of my cars.  Offered directly to Gary last week as it's clear he's mad about 5s and it would have been a good new home.  Alas, not to be, so now for sale at £59,950.

Yup, not a typo, that's £ 5 9 9 5 0...  

If Max G at RM can hammer down a leftie 5 a couple of weeks ago for £48k, and the car happens to have the engine from a 2.5Pi Saloon (see penultimate para on link below)
http://www.rmsothebys.com/mo15/monterey/lots/1968-triumph-tr5-pi-roadster/1076295
then my car may even be too cheap!...    

Look at it this way; if the labour involved on my 5 was valued at even fifty quid per hour (and I've had to pay over £100ph on a couple of my Itie classics) then the car would cost, including the £28k worth of parts, £93,000 to replicate!!

By the way, Good Luck today at the auction, Gary - hope it works out for you.

Cheers,

Tony

Not happy about the 'correct cloth bound loom' tosh in the above either.

Hi Tony

Alas it didn't work out for me at the Auction

I had my limit and sadly the car went way over it!

Hammer price was £37K, that was a total of £41,440.00 with Commission and V.A.T.

I didn't even get a bid in! Two guys where clearly after it with a vengence, it started at £!8k and a lot of Cars hadn't been reaching there lower estimate, so I though marvellous , the Estimate was £25-£30K.

However the bidding soon shot up to the £37K sale price, the guy who won it was from Kent and was in his late 50's early 60's, he's probably decided to spend part of his Lump Sum pension on a classic as an investment?   

I went down to view it on the Friday with my Trolley Jack and Axle stands, it looked to me and my good friend John who know his onions to have had a hurried restoration to get it sold quick, the chassis had been repaired in a couple of places with patches, the Breast plate part had been replaced properly though and it looked straight and sound enough to me with no accident damage, however I asked a number of question via the Auction House before going down, one being had the Chassis been Sandblasted or Acid dipped before Painting? I was told it had been Blasted and powder coated, trouble is it hadn't! It had been painted (poorly in places) and surface rust was appearing in certain area's, although it was only surface?

The body Tub had been repaired in the inner wing area's and at the ends of the Sills, the Whole Tub underside stone chipped and painted body colour, again I asked if it had been Blasted and was told yes and then Etch primed, but who knows? It may be sound, but with the fib about the chassis and the Stone chip you couldn't tell for sure and who knows if Rust won't be coming through in a year or so?

Also the Engine and Gearbox had not been rebuilt completely, although it sounded quiet enough when started, with no Blue Smoke, although the De-lorean parked behind it with the door open got covered in Black soot because the injection system seemed to be running rich

The Paintwork and panel fit where good but not perfect, it did have all the desireable extra's, although my mate spotted the Surrey top had been filled

I would have bid to £32K bearing in Mind the Engine and Box are unknowns, and the chassis not being blasted and powder coated?

It was certainlty an experience to go to the Auction, had a couple of hours round the Museum and walked on the circuit and up the Hill Climb which was good

I wonder what the DB5 went for?

The search goes on
      

Bad luck, Gary.  I know that "auction feeling" very well, when you're convinced the figure you intend to bid up to will buy the car, then that number's passed in 30 seconds, before you've even had a chance to bid!  I'll probably suffer it again in a week's time in Battersea...

Re my own car, having acknowledged that it's probably the most expensive on the planet, I now discovered that figure's about to be trounced by the very first TR5. Keep your eyes peeled for an advert somewhere, sometime soon.

Having said that, a very high profile dealer offered me £40k this weekend (woefully short of the £59,950 I'm now asking, so obviously turned down) and if they're looking to double their money, that then leapfrogs CP001!

I wonder if there'll be a six figure 5 sold before the bubble explodes...

Good luck with the hunt.

Cheers,

Tony

Quoted from TonyJerseyUK

Bad luck, Gary.  I know that "auction feeling" very well, when you're convinced the figure you intend to bid up to will buy the car, then that number's passed in 30 seconds, before you've even had a chance to bid!  I'll probably suffer it again in a week's time in Battersea...

Re my own car, having acknowledged that it's probably the most expensive on the planet, I now discovered that figure's about to be trounced by the very first TR5. Keep your eyes peeled for an advert somewhere, sometime soon.

Having said that, a very high profile dealer offered me £40k this weekend (woefully short of the £59,950 I'm now asking, so obviously turned down) and if they're looking to double their money, that then leapfrogs CP001!

I wonder if there'll be a six figure 5 sold before the bubble explodes...

Good luck with the hunt.

Cheers,

Tony

HI Garyf. i went to the Bonhams Auction at the september Beaulieu Autojumble....Big tent and lots of very smart cars,,,,the first car of the Afternoon was a rusty,patched up TR5, i registered in order to bid.
There was no reserve, Bidding started at £6K and rapidly went to £16K   a dealer i think won it...they told me on the desk that commission was 25%.

No chance for the Home restorer, it needed full Restoration !
Good luck in your search,
Conrad.

Hi Conrad

I did see that Car advertised, big money for a full restoration project?

I have managed to get one at last

I'm sure I chatted to you at the Triumfest show back in July, here's a couple of pic's of my new Baby

Had a few teething problems with the Injection system but I think it's all systems go now, after fitting a Recon Pump, new Electronic Ignition unit, Coil and Rotor Arm together with new Vacuum, Oil & Servo hoses and resetting the Timing it went beautifully this afternoon, fingers crossed?     

Yes we did chat at Triumphfest and looks like you got what you have been looking for..very nice too....i have been out in mine today too, not many good days left this year i reckon.
Have fun,
Conrad.

Cheaper to buy a Mk1 PI saloon.  Effectively the same running gear but top down motoring is a bit difficult .......  

MUT