eBay Find of The Weekend: Post War Triumph, ed.

"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko) 10/18/2014 at 11:32 • Filed to: None

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1948 Triumph Roadster, 1776 cc 4 cylinder, 4-speed on the tree, 8,791 miles, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! 0-60 arrives in a blistering 3.4 34 seconds.

Gene Lewis > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/18/2014 at 13:27

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needs an engine swap real bad. Maybe an s2000 vtec swap?

ftanbw > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/18/2014 at 13:27

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This is begging for a proper engine swap and it'll be a fantastic cruiser, I'd say. Love the interior too!

Mustang 'DontHitTheCrowd' GT > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/18/2014 at 13:32

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LOVING that rumble seat! with a popup windshield! so cool.

Eddie-Kulk > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/18/2014 at 13:37

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California to Philadelphia... (according to the eBay auction)... with a stop in Illinois for a license plate???

Maxxuman > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/18/2014 at 13:45

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Cool. This beautifully restored '49 model is a regular at our local cruise night:

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Mustang 'DontHitTheCrowd' GT 10/18/2014 at 13:47

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That's probably the coolest thing about it.

Kiltedpadre > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/18/2014 at 13:49

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Normally, I would consider that 0-60 time to be painfully slow, but in this beauty I think I would be enjoying every painstaking second of it. I absolutely love that the rumble seat has a pop-up windshield so the passengers don't get blasted in the face with the top down. One of my uncles had an old Pontiac with a rumble seat and my cousins and I would fight over who got to ride first when he'd drive us around at family gatherings.

What is the recess under the hood in one of the pictures? Is that intended as a storage area? It looks very similar to one on the opposite side for the battery.

The Transporter > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/18/2014 at 13:50

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Suicide doors and no seat belts? Fuck yeah?

Bomtrombone > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/18/2014 at 14:10

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let's get ready to rumble!

zipfuel > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/18/2014 at 14:26

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I disagree with the other posters, this car needs nothing except a picnic basket and an attractive companion in period appropriate dress.

Slave2anMG > Kiltedpadre 10/18/2014 at 18:34

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If it had 12v electrics from new there would have probably been a pair of 6v batteries in series...thus the extra space. MGBs used that configuration for years.

Slave2anMG > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/18/2014 at 18:34

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Awesome car. Just awesome. But I bet that Bobcat in the background is faster :)

AlanT > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/18/2014 at 19:45

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My dad has one of these. A cruiser for sure. There is nothing fast about it. Nor does it need to be.

Some tidbits:

the little chrome pieces behind the door are your turn signal indicators. they flipped out like a little flag.

Hole in the grill at the bottom looks to be missing a little door. This is where you could hand crank this motor to start it when the battery died. The crank was stored on the firewall and I do not see it on this one.

The somewhat comfortable rumble seats themselves folded down and then forward in the boot yielding a decent sized trunk.

Not sure, but I think it is three on the tree.

CompWizrd > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/18/2014 at 19:51

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That's only 5 seconds slower to 60 than the car I learned to drive with, an '87 Aries with 200,000+ miles on the odo. Figured out about 15 years after it went to the scrap heap that the cat converter had to be plugged, among anything else wrong with it. Think I was averaging about 15 mpg in that thing, highway.

AMC/Renauledge > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/19/2014 at 00:20

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I always thought it was odd how British cars of the '50s looked like they belonged in the late 1930s. Whether it's this Triumph, or the Jaguar Marks, or the Rollers of the day. The Ford Popular. Etc. And when Britain did finally leap into the '50s in car design, a lot of those models wound up running into the late 196os and early '70s.

At any rate, this Triumph roadster is still really cool.

kyleshootscars, Eurotrash Tragic > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/19/2014 at 01:38

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1776 cc? For sale in Philly? This Triumph seems awfully patriotic for a British car...

NYCars > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/19/2014 at 08:52

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My buddy just shipped a '47 Triumph 1800 (about the same car) to Icon in LA to see what Jonathan Ward can do to it. Going to be NUTS

iwishihadagt40 > AMC/Renauledge 10/19/2014 at 10:51

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A little thing called the second world war interrupted things rather badly over there ;-)

me > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/19/2014 at 16:49

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My great uncle had one of these, back when they were a pretty new car. He had a triumph vitesse later on, too, so far as I know, but I think that got totaled in an accident. This was all way before I was born; the only car I can remember him having was an old volvo, and I can't remember him ever driving it. He was in a wheelchair, and, although he had hand controls fitted, he didn't like using them because of what his advanced driving couse advised.

AMC/Renauledge > iwishihadagt40 10/19/2014 at 17:12

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Fair point. Yeah. 1939 was really when most new car engineering had to stop in Europe to address the growing war. And then after VE Day, most of the West saw rationing for the better part of a decade.