I had an early Mk11 Auto Stag which we owned for 15 years! Bought it for 7k and got the same amount back when I sold it in 2003. Never let us down or overheated in all that time because the engine was rebuilt under warranty at just 2000 miles from new. All the casting sand and swarf was cleared from the block (terrible quality control back then ⚠️) I see the values have shot up since then. Happy memories. I would have another one but would go for manual transmission 2nd time around.❤
I have owned my 1976 Stag, 'The Red Devil' for 43 years now, and I must say it's been a perfect grand touring car, (not - a sports car) and it sound fantastic and a complete joy to drive. My car has the original engine and gearbox and has been restored one 2014/15. It was my every day car back in the 80's and never let me down. Also. any of the faults you now rehashed have been sorted for many years so buy one with confidence. It a great survivor and a great owners club (SOC). You should always look forward to what's going on now, not backwards. Well done anyway. Bob
My father bought one in 1976 (1 year old) and I remember the test drive in it when I was 12. Dad passed away in 2018 and the car came to me but it's in my garage, rather frustratingly a bit stuck. I changed the tempermental autobox inhibit switch last year and the new one has now said "Nope, not gonna enable the ignition!". I can get to the switch but the passenger door is up against the wall so I need to motivate myself into some gymnastic level contortionism one day soon when the weather is a bit warmer.
Having owned both Mk1 and Mk2 Triumph 2000 estates they were a cut above the rest in the 60's/70's Yes they suffered the foibles that all cars from the era had, but for me they had a class and style of their own. As for the Stag, yes i wanted one, but i needed a reliable workhorse and you couldn't carry TV sets in a Stag. Thaks for changing your minds, thses cars are still stylish and desirable today.
did my apprenticeship at a Triumph Stag specialist way back in the early 80s. in those days Stag owners tended to be professional people with money to burn (thankfully!!!). I remember taking a surgeons Stag out on a fault finding test drive (rear noise issue mid bend), apexed it, got on the throttle and it under-steered like the front tyres were greased. I'd already road tested many Stags by this point and their handling was usually neutral to over-steer (tyre type dependent) but this one had a Rover V8 conversion which was the reason the diff was in trouble (rear noise) and the handling had been destroyed. the Stag is a Triumph 2000 convertible and as such was engineered for Triumph power plants. I have fond memories of the old Snags. they're best kept original with a few fairly minor mods and tweaks here and there to fix what should have been done at the factory. good to see your tested car has a real Triumph engine 👍
A well maintained Triumph Stag is an absolute pleasure to drive, I know this because I drove my last Pimento Red 1977 model triumph stag for 25 years, still kicking myself for selling it !!.😢😢😠 and yes it was my daily driver !!.
2 keys - long one for door and ignition, small one for gl9vebox and boot. T-BAR zip is only for fitting the vinyl cover. Now go drive a manual. Very very different and more enjoyable experience when out of town. Car comes alive.
I had a white one FUB 284K, unfortunately in 1978 I took a fast bend on a country road in Somerset chasing Tom Alexander (he of Virgin Mobile fame) in his mum's RS 2000. I slid off on a load of liquid cow shit, took out 20 metres of privet hedge, hit the raised driveway, spun slightly, drivers door hit a telegraph pole hard and ended up with the door touching the gearstick inside,. I'm still around today because I left the hard top in my sister's garden earlier and me and my mate burst out through the soft top and landed in a field. Just gathering my senses and calling for my mate (it was dark) and the house owner came out and started bollocking me for ruining his hedge. Called a taxi and met Tom in Mr B's night club we were heading for (he was somewhat puzzled why my white John Travolta style jacket was hanging off my back with one sleeve missing, and me and Paul Barton were both covered in shit). Years later I bought the house opposite the accident scene and started dating Julie next door (now my daughters mum) and when I first met her she told me about finding a white Triumph Stag in the ditch opposite one morning (she noticed it because the smashed door light was still on) and she said that it must have slid off the road on the shit from her mother's cows ! NB the day after the incident I towed the car out of the ditch with my XJ6 (Stag viewed from the top was banana shaped). My mate Paul Barton sat in and steered it with the roof flapping open and getting covered in broken windsreen glass, and we took it back to Del Lines at Weston-super-Mare where he gave me £750 for it (because he had only recently rebuilt the engine) and he salvaged that. When he gave me the cheque he said 'you're a bit wild , aren't you' ! I actually liked the car because it had an extra switch by the window switches that turned on the two lights inside the roll bar when we were posing around Weston at night !
Its not surprising that they are still in demand. Not many Grand Tourers with usable back seats, a good boot, great parts availability at sensible prices and a Hard Top out there, Even a Corniche DHC doesn't have a hard Top in its repertoire.
I had my Bosses Stag air bourne over a hump back bridge. When I landed a tractor 🚜 had pulled out in front of me, I ended up in the field he had come out of. Loved it.
No, this car is Inca yellow. But you are right that Mimosa yellow was also available and much more common on a Stag (a slightly lighter shade than Inca)
Italian Giovanni Michelotti designed this great British classic GT roadster which was let down by poor BL build quality and untrained dealerships but now a well sorted reliable gem with one of the best sounding V8’s ever and looks just as good with a hard top on, many had there handling destroyed by the lighter Rover V8 conversions which was unnecessary. Find another British car maker of the 70’s to match it’s character you’ll be hard pressed.
I do like the Stag. In the mid eighties it was a "fast flash motor" a couple of mates had them and l enjoyed the rides!..but...l am 100% a TR 4 guy. Edit.... Love her T-shirt... I have a -65 cooper s.
You need to find a tunnel to experience the v8😂. I owned a mk1 for 12 years, obviously not without its BL problems but I spent two years restoration it and loved every minute driving it.
There is nothing like the exhaust note of a Triumph Stag. I can't put my finger on it but if one comes or goes down the road it's a Stag & nothing less. Length of exhaust,bore of exhaust,placement of silencer ? Don't know but .......I love it ! The other car is the MGB..,.,.different note but same one-off identity.
@@martinkendrew18 I do know them.We're talking about sound identity.Go out into the street & tell me the make of an EV at 1000 yards.Australia is alive with V8,6 & 4 cylinder cars,has been for many decades & because of that some are audibly identifiable as to what particular cars they are,NOT just the fact it has a type of motor fitted to it.Many brands here had 4,6 & V8 motors fitted to the same model (Holden Torana being one). I stand by what I said.....I know a Stag by sound,not that it's a V8 & I know an MGB,not because it's a "4"(a V8 or an MGC usually stumps me !). There's just that resonance of identity. Some have it,some don't.
My stepmother wanted one, and asked me to go with her to look at it. I’m 6’ 3”, and my dad was 6’ 5”. Anyway, I got in the drivers side, roof down, thinking it was very nice, then the salesman tapped me on the head, and I then realised my line of sight was 2” above the top of the windscreen 😂. Result was she went for a Scimitar GTE, nice too.
The Stagg was for the big boys who thought Spitfires were too girly. But the Staggs weren't weren't developed enough before going to market, As Usual. 😢
Back in the day it was classed as a proper hairdressers car .. Which was spot on, as I knew three successful ladies hairdressers who owned them & strangely enough they’d picked white!! Shame about the engine though..
She says she's 'never hankered' after a Stag. Not surprising considering (1) she has an image of a Mini on her T-shirt (that says it all) and (2) Stag was mainly bought by men. It's a man's car. And the dude likes to keep using the word 'British' as if we need to be reminded where there is by the leaden skies. Let's be honest: neither of these two are typical Stag owners.
He's not dressed like 1974, that collar is way too small. Re the handling, dad had a friend with one, he took the bend by Twickenham bridge at 70mph (it's a 40, site of Britain's first speed camera) in the 70s. Not bad for the time.
Really too bad about that engine, Leland had many engines they could have put into the vehicle ( they had FAR too many engines ). The could have put the Jag straight six or developed the Triumph 2.5L . So little thought and development put into most British cars of that ilk.
Waaaaay too much manic conversation by the driver. I couldn't watch most of it. It would have been better with less of the animated "Look at me everyone" antics of the driver and more about the sound of the car.
Very poor vid…. Why bother trying to review a car (that is liked and appreciated by so many I might add) when you come into it with such a massive bias. Finding faults on the car that were so typical of most 70’s cars.. Nice car. Crap vid.
I had an early Mk11 Auto Stag which we owned for 15 years!
Bought it for 7k and got the same amount back when I sold it in 2003.
Never let us down or overheated in all that time because the engine was rebuilt under warranty at just 2000 miles from new.
All the casting sand and swarf was cleared from the block (terrible quality control back then ⚠️)
I see the values have shot up since then.
Happy memories.
I would have another one but would go for manual transmission 2nd time around.❤
I had one in the 70s and was the best car I ever owned.
I have owned my 1976 Stag, 'The Red Devil' for 43 years now, and I must say it's been a perfect grand touring car, (not - a sports car) and it sound fantastic and a complete joy to drive. My car has the original engine and gearbox and has been restored one 2014/15. It was my every day car back in the 80's and never let me down. Also. any of the faults you now rehashed have been sorted for many years so buy one with confidence. It a great survivor and a great owners club (SOC). You should always look forward to what's going on now, not backwards. Well done anyway. Bob
My father bought one in 1976 (1 year old) and I remember the test drive in it when I was 12. Dad passed away in 2018 and the car came to me but it's in my garage, rather frustratingly a bit stuck. I changed the tempermental autobox inhibit switch last year and the new one has now said "Nope, not gonna enable the ignition!". I can get to the switch but the passenger door is up against the wall so I need to motivate myself into some gymnastic level contortionism one day soon when the weather is a bit warmer.
Having owned both Mk1 and Mk2 Triumph 2000 estates they were a cut above the rest in the 60's/70's
Yes they suffered the foibles that all cars from the era had, but for me they had a class and style of their
own.
As for the Stag, yes i wanted one, but i needed a reliable workhorse and you couldn't carry TV sets in a Stag.
Thaks for changing your minds, thses cars are still stylish and desirable today.
That is a true cad's convertible. One of the best looking convertibles ever. Giovanni Michelotti was a great designer.
I suddenly want Stag. Beautiful car, entertaining video. Thanks.
did my apprenticeship at a Triumph Stag specialist way back in the early 80s. in those days Stag owners tended to be professional people with money to burn (thankfully!!!).
I remember taking a surgeons Stag out on a fault finding test drive (rear noise issue mid bend), apexed it, got on the throttle and it under-steered like the front tyres were greased. I'd already road tested many Stags by this point and their handling was usually neutral to over-steer (tyre type dependent) but this one had a Rover V8 conversion which was the reason the diff was in trouble (rear noise) and the handling had been destroyed.
the Stag is a Triumph 2000 convertible and as such was engineered for Triumph power plants. I have fond memories of the old Snags. they're best kept original with a few fairly minor mods and tweaks here and there to fix what should have been done at the factory.
good to see your tested car has a real Triumph engine 👍
Crabbers could turn Elton John straight thee knors ❤
A well maintained Triumph Stag is an absolute pleasure to drive, I know this because I drove my last Pimento Red 1977 model triumph stag for 25 years, still kicking myself for selling it !!.😢😢😠 and yes it was my daily driver !!.
Agree, real pleasure to drive. Had my Pimento one for 13yrs now. And that sound !
2 keys - long one for door and ignition, small one for gl9vebox and boot.
T-BAR zip is only for fitting the vinyl cover.
Now go drive a manual. Very very different and more enjoyable experience when out of town. Car comes alive.
stunning, the car is nice as well
The body work is amazing, every mans dream to try one of these out. A classic must have accessory to hold.
Yep, the stag;s nice as well!!!!!
I had a white one FUB 284K, unfortunately in 1978 I took a fast bend on a country road in Somerset chasing Tom Alexander (he of Virgin Mobile fame) in his mum's RS 2000. I slid off on a load of liquid cow shit, took out 20 metres of privet hedge, hit the raised driveway, spun slightly, drivers door hit a telegraph pole hard and ended up with the door touching the gearstick inside,. I'm still around today because I left the hard top in my sister's garden earlier and me and my mate burst out through the soft top and landed in a field. Just gathering my senses and calling for my mate (it was dark) and the house owner came out and started bollocking me for ruining his hedge. Called a taxi and met Tom in Mr B's night club we were heading for (he was somewhat puzzled why my white John Travolta style jacket was hanging off my back with one sleeve missing, and me and Paul Barton were both covered in shit). Years later I bought the house opposite the accident scene and started dating Julie next door (now my daughters mum) and when I first met her she told me about finding a white Triumph Stag in the ditch opposite one morning (she noticed it because the smashed door light was still on) and she said that it must have slid off the road on the shit from her mother's cows ! NB the day after the incident I towed the car out of the ditch with my XJ6 (Stag viewed from the top was banana shaped). My mate Paul Barton sat in and steered it with the roof flapping open and getting covered in broken windsreen glass, and we took it back to Del Lines at Weston-super-Mare where he gave me £750 for it (because he had only recently rebuilt the engine) and he salvaged that. When he gave me the cheque he said 'you're a bit wild , aren't you' ! I actually liked the car because it had an extra switch by the window switches that turned on the two lights inside the roll bar when we were posing around Weston at night !
Its not surprising that they are still in demand. Not many Grand Tourers with usable back seats, a good boot, great parts availability at sensible prices and a Hard Top out there,
Even a Corniche DHC doesn't have a hard Top in its repertoire.
I have a yellow one like this 😀👍 I love to ride with it.
I had my Bosses Stag air bourne over a hump back bridge. When I landed a tractor 🚜 had pulled out in front of me, I ended up in the field he had come out of.
Loved it.
Beautiful car. Inca yellow my first car was an allegro in Inca yellow. That v8 sounds mint!
I love my Chester👍
What a colour that was though. Inca yellow 👌🏻
It wasn't Inca yellow, the factory colour was Mimosa yellow. 😉💛
No, this car is Inca yellow. But you are right that Mimosa yellow was also available and much more common on a Stag (a slightly lighter shade than Inca)
And I have sometimes the same problems with the seatbelts 😂
Great car and one of my all-time favourites. Note; that seatbelt hasn't been working since the MOT of September 2019! :-)
Italian Giovanni Michelotti designed this great British classic GT roadster which was let down by poor BL build quality and untrained dealerships but now a well sorted reliable gem with one of the best sounding V8’s ever and looks just as good with a hard top on, many had there handling destroyed by the lighter Rover V8 conversions which was unnecessary. Find another British car maker of the 70’s to match it’s character you’ll be hard pressed.
I do like the Stag. In the mid eighties it was a "fast flash motor" a couple of mates had them and l enjoyed the rides!..but...l am 100% a TR 4 guy.
Edit....
Love her T-shirt...
I have a -65 cooper s.
I’ve had two stags money pits but great cars got a Porsche Boxster now 👌
What means money pit?
I never viewed a Triumph as British Leyland. It was still Triumph.
Definitely, triumph engines in my opinion were easier to work on and better designed than the British Leyland ones.Triumph was always Triumph
Love Sarah’s accent proper down to earth English lass and loves classic cars brilliant
You need to find a tunnel to experience the v8😂. I owned a mk1 for 12 years, obviously not without its BL problems but I spent two years restoration it and loved every minute driving it.
Great entertainment. The badge lol... The plughole of doom, many of them had their engines replaced with the 3.5 Rover engine.
There is nothing like the exhaust note of a Triumph Stag. I can't put my finger on it but if one comes or goes down the road it's a Stag & nothing less. Length of exhaust,bore of exhaust,placement of silencer ? Don't know but .......I love it ! The other car is the MGB..,.,.different note but same one-off identity.
Yeah 1 a v8 poss. Straight 4 know yer motors??
@@martinkendrew18 I do know them.We're talking about sound identity.Go out into the street & tell me the make of an EV at 1000 yards.Australia is alive with V8,6 & 4 cylinder cars,has been for many decades & because of that some are audibly identifiable as to what particular cars they are,NOT just the fact it has a type of motor fitted to it.Many brands here had 4,6 & V8 motors fitted to the same model (Holden Torana being one). I stand by what I said.....I know a Stag by sound,not that it's a V8 & I know an MGB,not because it's a "4"(a V8 or an MGC usually stumps me !). There's just that resonance of identity. Some have it,some don't.
Happy Halloween Sarah 🎃
My stepmother wanted one, and asked me to go with her to look at it. I’m 6’ 3”, and my dad was 6’ 5”. Anyway, I got in the drivers side, roof down, thinking it was very nice, then the salesman tapped me on the head, and I then realised my line of sight was 2” above the top of the windscreen 😂. Result was she went for a Scimitar GTE, nice too.
There's nothing wrong with the triumph V8 it's the radiator out of a triumph spitfire
The Stagg was for the big boys who thought Spitfires were too girly.
But the Staggs weren't weren't developed enough before going to market, As Usual. 😢
Might want to tweak the title a little ...
Hmm good spot. Got Julian Clary banned from telly if I remember correctly! 🙂
I didn’t want to mention it😂😂😂
@@jonrogers3839about Norman Lamont...
Oooops !! Thank you 🤣
Is this about the car or just you two jabbering on?
Both
Expert on the 70s and he wasn't even there.😂
Back in the day it was classed as a proper hairdressers car ..
Which was spot on, as I knew three successful ladies hairdressers who owned them & strangely enough they’d picked white!!
Shame about the engine though..
Sorry but the Stag is without doubt the best looking car BL made.. Actually one of the best looking cars ever made.
And what did you say at the end?
I'd put a seat belt on if I was her, esp with his lack of looking where he is going !!
If they had used used the Rover 3500 V8 it would have been perfect. Pride goeth before a fall.
She says she's 'never hankered' after a Stag. Not surprising considering (1) she has an image of a Mini on her T-shirt (that says it all) and (2) Stag was mainly bought by men. It's a man's car. And the dude likes to keep using the word 'British' as if we need to be reminded where there is by the leaden skies. Let's be honest: neither of these two are typical Stag owners.
He's not dressed like 1974, that collar is way too small.
Re the handling, dad had a friend with one, he took the bend by Twickenham bridge at 70mph (it's a 40, site of Britain's first speed camera) in the 70s. Not bad for the time.
One question...why don't you like convertibles?
I have always wanted a stag just out of my reach sadly
Bring them back with restomod
Where's Crabbers tyke accent gone, thee knors !!
Roger and Fanny. 🤣
I'm thrilled that I have a STAG name... LMAO
Lovely car and the twin round headlamps add to the sporty nature. Square headlamps are so bland in comparison now.
Why did you leave bangers and cash
Shame it's auto,the manual was a different beast. The 2500S was similar with the 2 gearboxes.Manual only for both cars.
Paul Probably ended up with crabs 🦀 after this journey.😅
Cheeky !
@@Sarah-CrabbersCrabtree only joking.loved it 👌
They actually tried to pitch this car against Mercs of the era, good try
Yes it was meant to be a cheaper alternative, I also had a 1986 420SL mercedes, but the stag was much more enjoyable to drive !!. 🤪😜😝
what are the chances of me you saying pretty much identical to what you said about the stag, that I said in my tweet?
get two people that no about stags they soft tops and hard top with stag
That was painful to watch!
Really too bad about that engine, Leland had many engines they could have put into the vehicle ( they had FAR too many engines ). The could have put the Jag straight six or developed the Triumph 2.5L .
So little thought and development put into most British cars of that ilk.
The cars are great but sarah is the distraction x
Waaaaay too much manic conversation by the driver. I couldn't watch most of it. It would have been better with less of the animated "Look at me everyone" antics of the driver and more about the sound of the car.
Totally agree. I had to cut the video short because of that, it became annoying to listen to. Ditto the female, no intelligent narrative.
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He just got away with putting it in P, Not a recommended move in the 21st century and an independent women.
😂
Did,nt enjoy this poor review don,t give up the day job
I have driven and repaired them. They are not good cars.
Aggravating presenters .
Very poor vid…. Why bother trying to review a car (that is liked and appreciated by so many I might add) when you come into it with such a massive bias. Finding faults on the car that were so typical of most 70’s cars..
Nice car. Crap vid.
I drive an Ital love, I know all about crap cars and I bloomin love them 😊😂
The zip in the t bar is so you can change the interior bulb on the t bar
The seatbelt difficulty at the start is indicative of the entire problem with British cars and industry - producing crappy unreliable rubbish
If you know anything about 70's cars then you will know how to deal with it.
I fell in love ❤ with Sarah on bangers and cash
Wished I was back in the 70s I wouldn’t be such a old git.