Been looking for a hardtop for quite sometime for my TR6. In fact, I was looking before I even found a car! Thats how much of a pain a reasonable TR6 hardtop is to find. Sure, if you want to pay $1k you can get one tomorrow but that doesn’t make a lot of sense for the budget restoration guy.

So, I use google to poke around and for the last 6 months it always was picking up this hit on some local Triumph club site in Washington state. There was a guy selling one for $350! Finally, in a moment of desperation, I sent him an email. …

Three days later he answers and, sure enough, he has it! And an extra rear fender! Entire kit and caboodle is $500 and he’ll drop it off tomorrow at the UPS Store to have it packed and shipped.

What did we do before Google? I mean seriously, how would these dots ever get connected. Yahoo, Lycos etc never got this deep.

Thank You Google! Me and my TR6 give you great thanks.

Update: Hardtop arrived packed in about 5000 layers of foam. Undamaged from shipping but has some rust issues. The guy also threw in a ‘rust free’ fendor that totally sucked so that tells me something.

More on the hardtop in later installments.