The 1969-1973 Triumph TR6: sporting icon with bags of grunt
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► This week, he talks about the brilliant Triumph TR6
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Classic Cars magazine’s editor Phil Bell regularly shares some of his best market insights to help you with your next buy. This week he contemplates the rise, rise and fall of one of Britain’s finest sports cars, the Triumph TR6.
The 1969-73 versions of the Triumph TR6, more prized than the later versions because they’re rated at 150bhp rather than the rather more feeble 124bhp of post-1973 examples. In a declining market (for values) these have slipped by just 2.1%, putting them at the bottom of the Classic Cars list of Price Guide Movers on the slide in June 2020. Rough/project cars average £5.5k now, with tidy-looking, usable cars £10k and the fault-free examples still making a weighty £17k-£23.5k.
In anyone’s book, this makes the more potent TR6 versions good value.
Those later (1973-76) Triumph TR6s have just made it into our chart of the top 20 cars on the slide with a 4.5% fall. Entry level is £4.9k, rising through £8.75k to £15k-21k for cars in equivalent condition. It’s common for the gap between the most and least desirable variant of a classic to widen in a buyer’s market. In reality, some of that difference in power output was down to a change in how it was measured from SAE (without ancillaries) to DIN (with ancillaries) so the on-the-road difference isn’t so profound.
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Price Guide Movers is part of 16 pages of buying tips and advice, including Quentin Willson’s Hot Tips, Ads on Test, and a Bentley Eight-Turbo R Buying Guide in the latest issue of Classic Cars magazine:. For more market insights, visit: the Classic Cars website
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