Triumph TR-2 Traditional Cache
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Placed as part of the Central Maine Power Run by the Power
Rangers.
This is a film cannister that holds a log. The cannister is placed
inside a man made object.
Triumph TR-2
I had a friend in high school that bought a Triumph TR-2 his senior
year in school. He registered it and drove it out Western Avenue in
Augusta to the turnpike, to see how fast it accelerated. Off he
went, gaining speed as he shifted. When he was about to shift from
3rd to 4th, he glanced down to look at the shift pattern on the
knob and turned the steering wheel slightly to the right, slamming
into a guardrail. The car was totaled. He loved that car for all of
fifteen minutes.
Triumph is a strange name for a motorcar company with little
apparent will to survive. But, despite its undulating course that
flowed mostly downhill, the British nameplate did offer one model
that deserves to be honored in the pantheon of the greatest cars of
all time. Somehow the venerable British car company Standard got
all the planets to align in the TR-2, if only for a few moments,
and the result was a classic.
Like the Chevrolet Corvette, which debuted at almost the same time,
the TR-2 borrowed heavily from its more mundane brethren within the
company. The TR-2 was built on an X-braced ladder frame with coil
spring and wishbone suspension up front and a live rear axle on
semielliptic leaf springs. Behind the grille-less front opening was
a 1991 cubic centimeter overhead-valve four-cylinder engine that
featured twin SU carburetors. The dual-carb set-up was about the
only aspect that differentiated it from the Standard Vanguard
engine in use at the time, and power output was a less than
riveting 90 horsepower at 4800 rpm.
Still, for its time, the TR-2 was definitely a performance car. It
negotiated its way from zero to 60 miles per hour in 12 seconds and
had a top speed of 105 mph. Sure, your basic economy car could
easily out-run that today, but in 1953 this was performance
territory, especially when combined with taut handling.
Equally important to the car's success was the honest body drawn up
by Walter Belgrove. Though the American public didn't take to his
Mayflower sedan, it did eat up the TR-2 and its very similar
successors, the TR-3 and TR-3A. The sleek fender lines and very
low, cut out doors invited drivers to leap into the driver's seat
rather than struggle to locate the interior door handle, which was
the only door handle provided. A pretty cool feature if you were an
Ivy League jock vintage 1955. The car also earned itself some
racing renown, including a respectable showing in the 1954 Alpine
Rally. That same year a TR-2 finished 15th overall at the 24 Hours
of Le Mans, and the car would go on to be a club racing legend
as.well as a successful rally machine
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