by Gary Murray When George Melton first caught sight of the little red Triumph TR3A sitting in that Peoria used car lot in 1960, he knew instantly it had to be his. The sports car with just 1,500 miles on the odometer had been spotted by George’s father, who understood his son’s appreciation for fine…
Gordon Gibbons’ 1958 Triumph TR3A By Dan Kahn Muroc dry lake is a lonely, desolate place. Nestled in the high desert an hour north of Los Angeles, the massive expanse of smooth, hard clay has remained unchanged for millennia, the land that time forgot. This was once the birthplace of speed and glory. Young men in rocket-powered planes outran the speed of…
There is something about wire wheels that says “this is a British sports car!” Years ago, when I was the proud owner of a disc wheeled Triumph, I discovered how easy it was to convert any TR2, 3, 4, 4A, 250 or 6 to wire wheels. It’s also a relatively inexpensive task and, as wire-wheeled…
A Professor’s Triumph runs wide-open and opens wide By Tom Morr No joke: Dr. J.S. “Noble” Eisenlauer’s Triumph was built on April Fool’s Day, 1959. Thanks to painstaking maintenance and many performance modifications, the car runs better today than at any point in its lifetime: Intelligent “resto-mod” upgrades successfully improve drivability and reliability without compromising…
Upon converting to LED tail lights on my 1959 TR 3 A I found that the backside of the tail light lens reflector was blocking proper light emission by more than half of the lumens. To offset this I removed the glued-in reflective lens (with a Dremel tool) and now the light is even in…
