Should I get a Triumph Stag, or a mk1 Toyota Celica?

( Kroney, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 14:59, 4 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

No

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:00, Reply)

YES

( Kroney, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:00, Reply)

You should get a 2CV

(PsychoChomp, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:00, Reply)

Convertable roof to allow for quicker surrender

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:01, Reply)

Oh, come on, no-one deserves that. Not even Dozer.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:11, Reply)

Stag.
Or a Herald.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:01, Reply)

I keep looking at this Truimp Herald
That looks like a doer upper, my head says no but my heart says yes
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:03, Reply)

Parts are quite cheap.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:05, Reply)

Ace cars to drive
Theres one on a drive that looks like its been in the garage for the last 15 years I keep wanting to knock on the door and ask them what they are planning on doing with it
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:08, Reply)

Not by any definition of "ace" that I'm aware of, they aren't.
They're midly entertaining, in so far as the fear of dying backwards on fire in a hedge with the added embarassment of the whole thing happening at 18 mph is entertaining
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:11, Reply)

Exactly Ace

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:18, Reply)

hahahahaha!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:24, Reply)

Mine used to oil up the plug on the third cylinder every 100 miles or so
because of worn rocker gear - so my through-the-hedge-backwards-on-fire antics were restricted to 11 mph.

Say what you like, designing the rear suspension to make you lose all rear end grip during braking is a work of a genius.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:32, Reply)

Just make sure the chassis isn't rusted
the body's fairly irrelevant on a Herald.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:08, Reply)

Honestly? Neither.
The Stag has an absolute shitbox of an engine and mk1 Celica's a bit of a bastard for parts.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:09, Reply)

There's nothing wrong with Stag engines.
Sure they had heating issues forty years ago, but there are plenty of fixes around for them now.
( Kroney, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:31, Reply)

taking them out, throwing them in a skip and putting a small block chevy V8 in
being the only actual "fix"

They are fucking awful, Kroney. They're two Dolomite straight 4s welded together in a V. It's the sort of fucktarded piece of engineering horseshit that only '70s era BL could pull off.

They had access to 3 perfectly good V8s from the BL stable and so they made their own which was measurably worse in every single characteristic than any of the ones they could have had for nowt.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:34, Reply)

Incorrect. A cursory wikipedia search
will tell you that the four pot came later than the V8. It was designed as a V and then cut in half. The heating issues came from an inadequate rad and bad production practises. The engine itself is a sound design.
( Kroney, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:37, Reply)

Well, except for the iron block and alloy head.
Or the lol-worthy expanding timing chain.
( Kroney, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 15:40, Reply)

A cursory wikipedia search
is going to make you look a bit of a chobber here.

"The Triumph V8 is a 3.0 litre V8 developed in house by Triumph for the Triumph Stag. This was basically two Triumph Slant-4 engines 'stuck' together. It consisted of a single overhead cam cast iron block with aluminium heads"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 16:11, Reply)

Just in case you needed me to check for you as well.
"The Triumph Slant 4 engine was used by Triumph in the Dolomite 1850, the Dolomite Sprint, and the TR7. It was also used by Panther in the Dolomite-based Rio"

You're welcome.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 16:13, Reply)