08-10-2020, 09:22 PM
Dad has had his '30 Triumph Super 7 since April '62, it's a keeper !!
When he restored it in the late '60's the 2nd gear was badly worn. by chance he found an advert in a club magazine from a scrapyard in the UK advertising Triumph spares. A letter to them re Super 7 spares yielded up a box which was mucky outside but when he stripped turned out to be brand new still in the original packing grease on the inside. He wrote to the scrapyard who it turned out had bought up lots of old Triumph spares when the Factory got rid of them. Fortuitously it must either be a Super 8 or Super 9 box or perhaps one of the supercharged cars racing boxes as it's a close ratio box and as sweet as chocolate to drive. Dad also has a high ratio diff in it plus a Ricardo head and the combination make it a really great little car.
The magneto & the generator are mounted on either side of the crank case & driven by a chain in the front timing case. It's a 3 main bearing cast iron block with an aluminium timing case. A few years ago we converted a spare inlet manifold from the updraft Zenith to a side mounted SU & that has really worked well for us.
This one is an RK Tourer. We have the wire wheels, but it's been on the pressed steel Sankey Sheldon wheels all my life. As standard it has 4 wheel hydraulic brakes with a Lockheed master cylinder & wheel cylinders. 850cc side valve, 3 speed with a bronze worm drive diff
We had it at the Triumph Nationals in 2004, here it's flanked L-R by a '28 Tourer & a '31 Special
Ciao
Greig
When he restored it in the late '60's the 2nd gear was badly worn. by chance he found an advert in a club magazine from a scrapyard in the UK advertising Triumph spares. A letter to them re Super 7 spares yielded up a box which was mucky outside but when he stripped turned out to be brand new still in the original packing grease on the inside. He wrote to the scrapyard who it turned out had bought up lots of old Triumph spares when the Factory got rid of them. Fortuitously it must either be a Super 8 or Super 9 box or perhaps one of the supercharged cars racing boxes as it's a close ratio box and as sweet as chocolate to drive. Dad also has a high ratio diff in it plus a Ricardo head and the combination make it a really great little car.
The magneto & the generator are mounted on either side of the crank case & driven by a chain in the front timing case. It's a 3 main bearing cast iron block with an aluminium timing case. A few years ago we converted a spare inlet manifold from the updraft Zenith to a side mounted SU & that has really worked well for us.
This one is an RK Tourer. We have the wire wheels, but it's been on the pressed steel Sankey Sheldon wheels all my life. As standard it has 4 wheel hydraulic brakes with a Lockheed master cylinder & wheel cylinders. 850cc side valve, 3 speed with a bronze worm drive diff
We had it at the Triumph Nationals in 2004, here it's flanked L-R by a '28 Tourer & a '31 Special
Ciao
Greig