On the afternoon of Aug. 31, I stood before Project: TR7, placed my right hand on the Haynes Triumph TR7 Owners Workshop Manual (All models 1975 thru 1981) and took The Oath as administered by Mrs.

In the golden age of driving, roadsters were the ultimate expression of freedom—lightweight, open-top machines built not for practicality, but for pure, unfiltered fun. While names like the Mazda MX-5 ...

Toward the end, Triumph tried its best to be modern, and the TR7, launched in 1974, was a wild departure from its predecessor, the TR6, which was a tastefully squared-off design by German coachbuilder ...

The Triumph TR7 was a pretty solid little British sports car, and the fourth generation Chevy Camaro was a pretty decent mid-90s American sports car. Albeit, not one without their fair share of faults ...

Back when today's Nice Price or No Dice TR7 was introduced, advertisements called its wedge design the "shape of things to come." That was ironic since Triumph as a whole would be gone just a decade ...

The thick layer of grimy, petrified oil on Project: TR7 -- on the engine, on the subframe and on the frame rails -- tells me the car had some incontinence issues. First order of business: Remove the ...

The late 1970s were dark days for the British motor industry, and by the end of the decade, the writing was on the wall for almost every marque flying the Union Jack. Some—like Bentley, Rolls-Royce, ...