Yeah, I’m going British today on Market Meet. Check out this sporty little ’57 Triumph TR3 race car for sale on eBay. The seller is mum on details as he recently “took it in trade for an expensive car.”, but it appears to be a solid one.
As you can see the paint is not in show car condition, a bit of surface rust seems to be creeping up all over. Personally I don’t care; I’d throw it into corners all day long as is.
It looks delightfully “vintage racy” with the Tonneau cover, roll bar and the grilleless front air dam. I don’t dig the loud yellow canvas Tonneau though….it would be easy to swap in one of black vinyl.
As with the rest of the car, the seller offers little detail on the “tractor engine”. What he did disclose that it has “twin Weber sidedrafts and sounds great”. When new the 1991 cc straight-4 OHV engine produced approximately 100 hp.
It will be interesting to see how high the price goes for this Triumph. I’d like to throw it into my garage use it for daily driving, track day duty and an art sculpture.
Is the TR3 race car still for sale, thank you, John.