Hi Guys,
Thanks for the warm welcome, and just to get things clear from the start, the car is *NOT* a Sprint. The car that I've agreed to buy is an 1850 auto, first registered in NZ 02/73, and the current owner has had the car for about 10 years, but more than that I don't know at this stage.
However, given that the current owner is an elderly gent who's used the car a "few days a week" gives me some hope that the vehicle has not been molested too much ... well not yet anyway ...
Looking to the future, thanks for the info about the O/D gearbox swap. In my naivety of classics and all things Triumph, I had hoped (assumed) that it was going to be a relatively straight forward swap, but I obviously need to do a lot more research, so be prepared for a barrage of questions ...
As for questions, I'll finish by answering Dave's ...
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Welcome john
You say the car is auto,why not keep it auto,but fit ZF box from a Jag or BMW that way your have best of both world's, you already have the belhousing from the BW box your need an adaptor plate to marry the both up
Dave
Why swap? Because it's my car, and I want a manual ...
Seriously though, my current car (which I'll be keeping, at least in the short term) is a Nissan Maxima 3.0 V6 Auto (BMW 5 Series size, 200 bhp), common as muck in NZ, but I don't recall ever having seen one in the UK. Anyway, that car is all-day comfortable, utterly reliable, but dull as ditch-water, so for my other car I want something that requires significantly more "driver input" which it rewards with smiles per gallon ...
Cheers
John