For Sale Triumph Stag potentially for sale.

[AustinW]

I’ve a good friend who now lives on a Greek island. His brother sadly died recently and as the only close family member he is trying to manage the estate mostly remotely, but we met today at his late brothers house to contemplate clearing out the garage. What a fecking garage - a right bloody mess but a potential treasure trove. Big ticket items are Two rusty wrecks of mostly dismantled Sunbeam Alpines the plan being to create one good un but I suspects it just a lot of scrap steel, more tools than you can shake a stick at and a Rather nice working 1976 Triumph Stag. In white, soft top, triumph V8motor (yeah I know it’s crap), but it’s just failed its mot mostly rust and is a bit scruffy in and out. One quote was approx £1900 to get through the mot so not insignificant but not write off time by far. He’s deciding whether to get the work done and fix it up cosmetically in order to sell for the £8-10,000 the Stag owners club reckon it’s worth or sell for significantly less without the work - WBAC.com offered £4,500 for it but I suspect he’s nearer £6k in his mind. It starts and runs just fine, brakes ok, gearbox apparently ok once warm and I believe everything else works.

I’m sorry no pics, mileage or anything but I can easily get more info for a genuine interested person.

The car is in Preston, Lancashire. Also interested in contacts for other potential buyers or restorers of Stags.

 

[trebor]

The Stag engines aren't as bad as the reputation they gained. They were renowned for blowing engine gaskets, resulting in warped cylinder heads that then needed skimming. This happened to mine.
Everyone, at the time, were of the opinion the cooling system was not large enough to do the job, and tried to fix them using 5 vane water pumps instead of the standard 3 vane ones which, IMHO, were a waste of time, and installing larger radiators.

Whilst working on the one I owned, many years ago, I found, when draining the water channels of the engine, that removing the drain plug had no effect.
Further investigation, and probing with a metal rod, I found the bottom of all the water channels were full of rock hard casting sand. Flushing it with water, whilst chipping away cleared it all out. I reported it at the time to the Stag Owners Club. It turned out that others had found the same in their engines. Once I cleared all the sand out I had no more overheating problems and the engine ran like a dream with a wonderful V8 rumble/roar.
I eventually sold it to a local enthusiast for more than I paid for it 15 years earlier.

 

[camel_landy]

One of the biggest problems with the Stag engines was the choice of metals in the engine & cooling system, creating a reaction as the coolant circulated. Modern coolants help limit the problems but the damage is usually already done.

...but back to this car.

Stags are looking as though they're going off the boil, as I've seen fully minted up Stags only going for £10k-£12k, with OK runners at about half that.

TBH - With the agro involved, it's probably easier to just send them all to auction.

M

 

[Pythongrün]

Great cars once sorted. My brother has two. Here’s one of them….

GLWS

 

[Bubb]

Sod WBAC for a stag… send it, and the alpines off to auction ( matthewsons?) ..they will find decent homes I’m sure.

Tools worth listing here if you have the time/inclination…….

 

[will]

The Stag engines aren't as bad as the reputation they gained. They were renowned for blowing engine gaskets, resulting in warped cylinder heads that then needed skimming. This happened to mine.
Everyone, at the time, were of the opinion the cooling system was not large enough to do the job, and tried to fix them using 5 vane water pumps instead of the standard 3 vane ones which, IMHO, were a waste of time, and installing larger radiators.

Whilst working on the one I owned, many years ago, I found, when draining the water channels of the engine, that removing the drain plug had no effect.
Further investigation, and probing with a metal rod, I found the bottom of all the water channels were full of rock hard casting sand. Flushing it with water, whilst chipping away cleared it all out. I reported it at the time to the Stag Owners Club. It turned out that others had found the same in their engines. Once I cleared all the sand out I had no more overheating problems and the engine ran like a dream with a wonderful V8 rumble/roar.
I eventually sold it to a local enthusiast for more than I paid for it 15 years earlier.

Mine was exactly the same