Ianh wrote:

Anyone seen a triumph stag on the road recently ?
In the late 80’s a friend had one with the original v8 3.0L engine which made a lovely sound. Those engines tended to overheat and die, then get replaced with a Rover 3.5 V8 or ford 3.0V6, neither sounded as good as the original 3.0V8.

Most came with a soft top plus a full hard top roof you kept in the garage for winter use, which caused some storage issues and paint match issues as the main vehicle paint faded due to sunlight but the roof did not as it was mostly in the garage during the summer.

Ianh wrote:

Anyone seen a triumph stag on the road recently ?
In the late 80’s a friend had one with the original v8 3.0L engine which made a lovely sound. Those engines tended to overheat and die, then get replaced with a Rover 3.5 V8 or ford 3.0V6, neither sounded as good as the original 3.0V8.

Most came with a soft top plus a full hard top roof you kept in the garage for winter use, which caused some storage issues and paint match issues as the main vehicle paint faded due to sunlight but the roof did not as it was mostly in the garage during the summer.

Yes i see a few down here in Devon, as said above, we get some at shows and events and i see a blue one regularly, not in perfect condition but it is used  1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

Keeper.

Clayton.

Ianh wrote:

Anyone seen a triumph stag on the road recently ?
In the late 80’s a friend had one with the original v8 3.0L engine which made a lovely sound. Those engines tended to overheat and die, then get replaced with a Rover 3.5 V8 or ford 3.0V6, neither sounded as good as the original 3.0V8.

Ianh wrote:

Good to know there are still a few stags about and being driven.

in the 80’s they were labelled “hairdressers cars” , meant as a slur in those days, but I really liked them.
Another friend had a Costello V8 3.5 MGB GT but at the time I preferred the stag.

My friends Stag was blue as well, a dark blue , I believe it was called sapphire blue.

IIRC the engine overheating was caused by narrow waterways that furred up, but if you went 50/50 with the correct antifreeze / distilled water mix you avoided the issue.

PS. No I’m not a cave dweller but live in a nice rural area and don’t spend much time on major roads these days, but a few years ago I was doing 30k miles a year on a regular basis and still not seeing any stags

Chicken Drumstick wrote:

Ianh wrote:

Anyone seen a triumph stag on the road recently ?
In the late 80’s a friend had one with the original v8 3.0L engine which made a lovely sound. Those engines tended to overheat and die, then get replaced with a Rover 3.5 V8 or ford 3.0V6, neither sounded as good as the original 3.0V8.

Most came with a soft top plus a full hard top roof you kept in the garage for winter use, which caused some storage issues and paint match issues as the main vehicle paint faded due to sunlight but the roof did not as it was mostly in the garage during the summer.

lol, not being rude and I hope you don't take it the wrong way, but I reckon some of you must live in caves and almost never step beyond your own front door.

Stags are very popular at most/all classic cars shows and they don't 'teleport' in. They drive there on the roads. Obviously you aren't going to see hundreds in a week. But during the summer months and car show season you do see them on the roads on occasion.

I think there where something like 19,000 Stags built for the UK market and 8500 still survive.

They would never have been a truly common sight on the roads either. Most dealerships probably only having 1 per year over the 7-8 year production run.

The V8 was good, it over heated for mostly minor issues, all resolved decades ago. Very few with Rover V8s or V6's in these days.

CD, another popular classic car is the MGB a bloke up the road from me, has a Red one with wire wheels and chrome bumpers. Bloke always had rovers, he had Rover SD1s rover 800s rover metro. He kept the Rover 800 for a while but had a jag. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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