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Originally Posted by Two Bills
I like todays cars, bland, boring or not.
The exitement of UK motoring in the 60's was, will we get there and back with the minimum number of break downs and overheatings.
Today we give a time of arrival, in those days, especially with the 'bangers 'I owned, an aproximate date was best option!
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Fun to drive but not at all famous for reliability.
I had a well used 1968 Triumph GT6. Essentially a Triumph Spitfire
with a TR6 engine installed. I don't think I ever drove it for 400 miles without a repair. You had to know how to repair it because going into a typical repair shop the guy when he saw what it was would refuse to work on it.
To be sold in the US they added pollution controls. Far as tools needed. You needed metric, SAE standard and if I recall some of the old british system whitworth.