Date:         Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:48:32 -0600
Reply-To:     Don <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
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From:         Don <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Spitfires and Joe Lucas
Comments: cc: courtneyhook@SHAW.CA
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Sorry Courtney, Stags had a Triumph SOHC V8. Any with a rover V8 were
modified. The Rover V8 may have started os the 60's Buick small block
but it has been highly developed since then.  Though still in
production, Rover now uses a Jaguar V8.

The Triumph that used the 3.5 Liter aluminum V8 was the TR-8. It also
was used in the MGB-GTV8. Both were limited production vehicles. Fewer
than 2750 TR-8s and approx 2900 MGB GTV8.

Cheers
  Don
65 TR4A-sa
72 TR-6
83.5 Westy


On 28-Oct-11, at 10:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:06:58 -0700
> From:    Courtney Hook <courtneyhook@SHAW.CA>
> Subject: Re: Spitfires and Joe Lucas
>
> Closest I came to a Spit, was a TR4A-IRS and almost bought a Triumph
> Stag
> while in England. But the astronomical price of about 4500 Can.
> dollars put
> me off. Wish I had it now. :-( If you watch the BBC series "New
> Tricks" on
> PBS you can see the Stag that one of the characters drives. It had
> the Rover
> V-8 (which was really the Buick aluminum V-8) from the 60's.