I prefer the hard top to the soft top also. Below is my old 4litre V8, a very rapid car
My mate is an expert on TR7s, possibly the world's most knowledgable on the subject. He owned about 18 TR7s at one point and still owns the only estate ever made!
I'm gobsmacked, what a kangorillapig. I didn't think it was possible to outdo a standard TR7 for pig ugliness however, the Grinnell lowers the bar but that thing slam-dunks it. I've never seen one before and I never want to see one again but it is immediately obvious why there was only ever the one built. It actually looks worse than an SM. Truly hideous.
Robin - they were pigs in the 70s and an embarrassment of the British car industry, typical cr$p that came out of BL compounded by the previous glorious era of British sports cars of the 60s and 70s - Princess, Allegro, Marina, Ital, Metro, TR7/8 - they are not renowned for being rubbish for no reason....! I think people are getting nostalgic about the 70s now and it has now extended to the poor cars that were produced then as well...
never a fan of the TR7 just seemed like an aircraft carrier dash and bonnet. loved the TR6 a proper sports car, the 6R4 was amazing watching it go round Lydden Hill in the mid to late 80's battling with the RS200. we had one of the road cars from Fords to test drive at the newspaper I was working at and blimey that was quick.
the last time I looked there was one, a Homologation Special for sale with 350bhp for around the £200,000 mark.
Cr@p, thats me on youtube for the rest of the morning, check this out, now this is what you call proper racing, see how fast the Escorts were off the line: