I have been looking at Triumph Stags all day on the internet. I am not sure why. I guess I have always been a Triumph man at heart, but the Stag was never one of 'my' Triumphs. I also adored that symbiotic design relationship between the whole range when Stag, 2000 Mk2 and later Spitfires plus the rest all echoed each other's front and rear treatments: a genius idea and a feat that I can't think of having ever being repeated, certainly not successfully. I like V8s, too. And my family circumstances mean that a four-seater V8 classic convertible is the ideal car. Of course, they are still ridiculously cheap, too. And have quad headlights.
It's ticking an awful lot of boxes then.
Maybe it is because the only other classic that would envelop all my needs in one would be a Lotus Elan +2 Chris Neil conversion, but then I wouldn't want to hit anything in that with the family aboard. Or a Peugeot 504 V6 convertible, but they are rarer than an modest politician. I prefer the era-defining shape of the Stag to the Pug anyway, always have, largely because I have this weird thing about removable hard-tops and the Stag's is perfect. Scimitar? Nah, not a convertible thanks.
So I want one, in a nice lurid early 1970s hue, manual overdrive, rear seatbelts etc.
