1968 Triumph 2000

Description

Exceptionally well-prepared Historic Rally Car; fortunes spent on build; highly successful and competitive; popular with organisers and eligible for a wide range of events

As soon as the 1,000th Triumph 2000 rolled off the lines in late 1963, the Competition Department at Triumph were ready with their Homologation papers. They knew it was a strong car and with the right power would be very competitive on the International Rally scene.

The works built and campaigned four cars, consecutively registered AHP 424 to AHP 427, notching up a good deal of success. The handling was great and reliability excellent.

The car on offer is not a 'works car', but carries the appropriate number AHP 1B and has been built to modern UK Historic Road Rally spec, drawing the best from those Works cars and subsequent developments.

Starting life as a 'late shell' 1968 UK RHD 2000 Auto, it was chosen for the task thanks to its solid bodywork. The initial transformation was undertaken by TR Enterprises, with detailed bills on file for a shade under £40,000....parts coming to £14,360 and over £25,000 of labour.

The work list was extensive and exhaustive, with full rebuilds of suspension and brakes, rally prep including race seats, banded alloy tank, full rally timing system, full roll-cage and sump guard.

The engine was built to 2.5-specs (2599cc) and has a billet steel crank, Carillo rods, main-bearing strap kit, baffled sump, a lightened flywheel (6kg inc ring gear), full balance, ARP studs and an 8.5" competition clutch. Forged pistons were fitted in 2021.

The head has been flowed and fitted with unleaded seats, bigger valves and the engine has a 2TR cam and an 11.5:1 compression ratio. Three DCOE Weber carbs complete the picture on a cast alloy manifold and a quick look under the bonnet shows lots of goodies and careful prep - a high torque starter, tubular exhaust manifold, twin coils etc....

The engine is mated to a four-speed box and a Competition A-Type overdrive, competition propshaft and a Quaife TRANS X diff with LSD (4.55:1). It also has GKN competition drive shafts.

A further £10,000 has been spent over the last few years keeping it competitive....a rolling road printout from April 2021 showing 210bhp!

The vendor commented that on its first outing in 2017 'it was outpaced by 'very little' and has clearly been much enjoyed given the stickers in the rear window. It has been starting instantly while onsite and sounds very very fit.....

Only on offer due to various other significant Triumph projects, this looks like a fantastic oportunity to get a sorted car at a fraction of the cost of build.

The huge file includes all of the invoices that have gone into making this such a competitive package, the vendor adding that it's something a bit different that gets entries at a multitude of exclusive events - aided no doubt by the AHP registration.

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