Originally Posted by
papajuliet
My pals and I, in boyhood, turned up our noses at the Triumph 1800 roadster - it wasn't a "proper" sports car [ like MGs for example ]. Now I just drool over it. How our views change.
Hardly surprising. When the TR roadster was replaced by the TR2 it was accompanied by a 30 mph increase in top speed and a more than halving of the 0-60 time.