Club Triumph Round Britain Reliability Run

2,000 Miles in 48 Hours Driving a 35 Year Old Classic Sports Car with two Old Classics at the wheel !

This may sound like a crazy idea but it is for Charity.

Mike Bestard and Darren Hughes will be taking part in the Club Triumph Round Britain Reliability Run in October using Mike’s 1973 Triumph GT6. This charity fund raising event which has been held bi-annually since 1966 starts and ends in London.

In order to qualify for a successful completion the entrants need to visit 15 pre arranged check points within 48 hours, a distance of around 2,000 miles with check points as far apart as John O’Groates and Land’s End.

This year 120 Classic Triumph cars will attempt the journey and will be raising money for the RNLI, the combined sponsorship target is to raise at least £50,000

If you would like to sponsor us, please use the attached link

http://www.justgiving.com/mikebestard

Type 9 - Job Done

Seems like I have been working on this conversion for ages, well its finally fitted and up and running.

Only been for a quick run as its been raining quite heavily today, hopefully get out over the weekend, all seems to work ok.

The following picture shows how much of the original selector mechanism had to be cut away to fit in my shortened remote.

I had to make a new bush to support the selector shaft as the original is completely removed when shortening the remote housing.

The selector rod had to be cut down to match the housing.

The completed box with the adapter plate and a quickshift conversion that came with one of the scrap boxes I bought of ebay.

Chassis welded and treated to some fresh paint, new mounting plate bolts to the underside of the chassis rails.

Gearbox in place, fairly straightforward to fit, uses the 1850 Dolomite clutch that I already used.

Had to make a small mod to the gearbox tunnel, basically moved the top half of the tunnel 25mm backwards, you can just see where it was glued.

All fitted, I now need to find a suitable gear knob and decide what length to make the gearstick.

Currently having some adapter plates machined, if your interested please get in touch. They are currently working out at £100 plus P & P. These have been designed primarily to fit the GT6 / Vittesse so not sure of there suitability for the 4 cylinder set up. They could probably be adapted to fit, the main difference I am aware of is the clutch mounting point.