If you’re not registering it here, it doesnt need the test.

I’ll agree Idaho is not part of the “rest of the world” but here’s a two door for $6500 with 227K miles and it’s an auto. Who knows whether the lift kit was done right either. I voted NP for the SFO manual.

I’m ok with the asking price. It is a basis for negotiation, but unmolested XJs that are free from rust perforation, or the plight of 3rd, 4th, and 5th owners goes a long way in my book. 

I keep seeing articles, but I’ve never actually met someone who hates self-checkout.

I mean think of it this way, WalMart is providing the transportation, cost of that transportation goes up so they charge that cost to the producer.

A compression tester is like $20 at Amazon/Harbor Freight. You can’t write off the original no-start issue to low compression without at least doing that. You never did confirm whether it was a lack of fuel delivery originally. There’s not THAT much to these old Mercs, if you made even a slight effort you could have…

Seriously, the proper procedure for fixing this recall is a swift smack to the owner and their keys taken away because they are clearly not fit to own a vehicle like that. Still amazes me literally anyone with a license can buy and drive a 40ft house on the road.

I will buy this car and dress-up like Big Enos Burdette and have my daughter dress-up like little En0s Burdette.

So we force pilots to retire at 60 but we let walking corpses run the government?

At 3900 lbs, it’s still lighter than any of the pony cars on sale today and people seem to gobble them up just fine...

You commenters just can’t get past that “Quick Change” steering wheel can you??? 

Not only is it “somebody else’s project”, but it’s a car that is mostly only relevant because of the ability to customize and tinker. Doing the work to make it your own is the whole point.

I know a lot of people are going to take issue with the auto-to-manual swap, but please stop before you do.

I have dabbled in cars like this all my life. Looks like it started life in Pale Primrose, a proper British color that is a pale yellow, and it was repainted a brighter yellow in the not too distant past. This gives me pause as a cheap new coat of paint often hides all sorts of horrors underneath.

It’s not turbo lag, that doesn’t even really exist anymore. Ford programs its truck transmissions very, very far in the direction of fuel economy, which makes them very excited about shifting up, and very reluctant to shift down. You can correct this simply by putting the transmission in sport, pushing the tow button,…

Ordering a car you have never driven is in line with another rule I have, which is to never buy a new car in its 1 year of production.

The fact that this Triumph is currently sitting at an 85% Nice Price result makes me proud to be part of this Jalopnik community.

Precisely. I actually kinda want this weird beast. I’d be willing to pay as much as 10 or maybe even 15 percent of his asking price!

This thing is simultaneously neat as hell and no dice as fuck.

I hadn’t realized we skipped all the way ahead to April 1st, thought it was still November 1st.