"Skooby" The beginning.

I’m probably not the only one out of the Club Triumph community but this past year has been very busy and unfortunately the car has suffered for it. After she failed the Pre MoT check and I was told she needed over £900’s worth of welding I got a bit disheartened and laid her up until I had the money to repair the rotten areas and do a bit of a spruce up. Anyway the best way to describe the past year would be “out of site out of mind” until that is I went to the Goodwood Revival with a friend of mine and she mentioned on the way down that it would have been nice if we could of taken the Stag (She doesn’t know a great deal about cars but she knows what she likes and personally I can’t fault her taste).
So a plan began to form in my head (and yes it did hurt ha-ha), I wanted to get her on the road for next summer but I’d need a goal to look forward to, something I can aim for…then it struck me I had a copy of the original Triumph Stag brochure and on it was a white MK1 Stag not completely unlike mine sitting outside a hotel in what looks like the south of France. Since I’d always wanted to drive down to the south of France it made perfect sense to drive the Stag.
Now I have something to aim for I had to decide on how I was to tackle the restoration in today’s turbulent financial climate, this was easier than I thought. Firstly I decided that I needed to list down everything that needs doing from rebuilding the carburettors to fixing the little bracket that stops the door opening too far. Then I took photographs of each little task that needed doing and then I had to break down the list so that I could focus on jobs that would get the car through it’s MoT all this was done with the help of a friend of mine named Phil who is by no means a stranger to cars as he’s rebuilding a Volkswagen Type 25 van which you will more than likely hear of due to the deal with him helping me with the Stag is I help him with the van. I should also mention another friend of mine John as he is allowing me the use of his garage and all his tools even though they are “Snap Off”, in return for this huge favour I have to help him occasionally with the restoration of his Mazda RX3 so all in all im going to be kept very busy well into next year.

I decided to create this blog so that it may serve partially as a helpful guide and so that my dad can keep up with the restoration.