Originally Posted by
Smokescreen
A friend of mine's dad has a Triumph, a 4-speed with I think a 1300, and it has been sitting in his warehouse for about 20 years. I runs, but needs a battery, new tires, new carpet. It only has around 40K miles, and I was wondering how much it would take to make it nice enough to be a decent daily driver. It only has around 90HP, any cheap engine swaps that could boost it to around 150?
Try it with 90 before you go swapping engines. Triumphs aren't fast, but they're TONS of fun. Plus you lose the flavor of it being a Triumph Spitfire. You could probably get it running for $500-1000, and to make it really nice would take about 2-3 grand. by my estimates anyway, YMMV.
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