A bit of metal bashing.

As much as I love the moth bitten holes and lumps of filler they don’t form the best rally car shell. Predominantly using the grinder and welder I have slowly been repairing and modifying the shell. At first I just kept walking around the car and couldn’t decide where to start so I tuck a deep breath and started chopping. Surprisingly!! The holes just got bigger and bigger in the search for sound metal.

O/S foot well.

Just a small hole and various other small holes around it.

Some of the repair pannels tacked in.


Double skinning around the offside foot well and inner arch.



Although it seems like slow progress, I have been wiring lights and generally improving the workshop. A lot of time has been spent moving engines around and trying to find somewhere to store all the parts whilst I restore the shell.

Its all happened so quickly.

On Tuesday the 11th of September 2007 I decided that I would build a TR7 rally car. This decision was a strange one for me having had no previous experience or (I’m sorry to say) Knowledge of a TR7 or for that matter a Triumph but here I am doing my first Blog as a member of club Triumph. In the past four months I have travelled around Europe in a Toledo, decided to take on a Tr7/8 rally car, owned and stripped two TR7’s, scrapped one and now I am repairing and preparing the good one. I would like to blame Martin Randle for this sudden interest in TR7’s as without his sheer enthusiasm and commitment I wouldn’t have a garage full of Triumph parts and a lot of work ahead of me. Thanks.


So hello to everyone at Club Triumph.

Just a few pictures of the current progress.

The TR7/8 before stripping.

GBT next to Martins BRP

Just a few of the many parts.

How GBT looks on the 1st Jan 2008.