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1200 Saloon - 1968

Name: Robert Hodgson
Location: Tiverton
Reg: MAA 929F
Model: 1200 Saloon
Year: 1968

This car first featured in Courier in 2006 as part of a huge barn-stash of small Triumphs that was being dispersed by local member Jon Tubman near Plymouth. My daughter Celia and I bought two of them and undertook a full nuts & bolts rebuild combining the best parts of both onto MAA's chassis and running gear. Working on a school-girl's budget we got her back onto the road in 2011 for the first time since 1985 for a total cost of just under £1000.

Since then she's featured in Practical Classics and was an exhibit in their first Restoration Show in April 2014, driving the 390-mile round trip to Birmingham & Coventry without faltering. Later in 2014 she played a starring role in Celia's wedding...

Since 2011 we have spent another £1000 on engine and gearbox rebuilds, tyres and various bits of trim and now she is mechanically as built, runs like a dream and turns heads wherever she goes. Thank you Jon for saving her!