I owned a 1976 Stag when I was 21. I am 58 now lol. One of the cars I deeply regret selling. A beautiful car that when I occasionally see now excites me still.

I bought one (with the same coulour) on sunday. Tomorrow I hope tp get the new plates. In case the weather will be good, I will pick up my son from school. I bet he will be very happy. He likes to ride with it. Wish you all the best...

for me this is more of a memento moria: from the early 70's: my friends George and Betsy visited us, driving around in their new Stag on our small estate, somewhere in the southeast of Friesland / Netherlands.Beautiful sunshine covering the green painted Stag when driving around the corner. I did drove a Dino in those years as well as a nice Lancia (both rusted away...).. Everybody has gone now except for me and even the estate has been sold for many years. Nostalgia: Far away and long ago, I think now as a 75 year old single person. God bless everyone who has since disappeared from this earth and made us happy for a while.

@ambimu55hak

2 жыл бұрын

God bless you too

Watching this to drum up some enthusiasm for restoring the 74' Mallard I have festering in a barn in France for the last 8 years. Need to haul it back. Will bring it to the IOW one day as my Dad is in Sandown. Could be a couple of years though!

Excellent production of my favourite car

Great video. Great to see Yafford Mill being worked on too as my grandparents regularly took me there as a young child. Maybe I'll drive my Stag there too one day....

Always loved the Triumph Stag. Great video in a beautiful car and on the fabulous Isle of Wight.

Excellent video, very clever and you have gone to so much trouble and detail to make this!! I have always admired the Stag since I was a lad in the 70s despite my dad back in the day saying it was BL rubbish - it is just so beautiful, and the engine and exhaust note is to die for. They were in the 70s and still are now in 2021 a special car!

Great video Chris! My closest encounter was buying a mk II Toyata Celica from a bloke who also owned a Stag, very nice cars.

Very professional and with subtle humour, well done Chris.

I had two of them great cars

A very well produced video. Hate to be critical but the only thing it doesn't capture is the sound of the Stag. For me, the best sounding production car engine of all time. With its unique firing order the Stag is sublime. Somehow the sound of the Stag in the video sounds more like a 1950's six cylinder. Get a nice recording of the Stag that does justice and edit that in and this would be a perfect tribute!

Very nicely filmed video. It's Still a stunning looking car today.... some sports cars of that era haven't aged well at all...the Stag has. Its classy and gorgeous! Still dream of owning one..

Splendid vid with fun cutaways and the island looking great as ever. I always wanted a Stag but ended up with a MGC as I wasn’t mechanically adept or monied enough for a shagging staaaag! Good to see that hardier types are keeping the 7000 survivors going, I gather some managed to shoehorn the Rover V8 as a less troublesome workaround. Wishing you many more smiling miles in that golden wonder.

Very nice video on a beautiful car I love and I own since 1975. Thank you Chris from France. What a fantastic story it could have been if its design was properly finished at the time: engine cooling system, undersized engine timing chain, dual metal reactions / rust on bolts, poor quality metal used everywhere. I love this Stag but every trip is an adventure (you don't know if it will drive you back home). On mine, I had 2 new motors, 2 rear axles, 2 power steering, many water pumps, one overdrive repair, even a steel wheel had a crack and I detected it while driving in the Pyrenees mountains. Maintenance was a mechanics nightmare (they would see me coming with apprehension not knowing for how many months the car will stay there waiting for spare parts (rear axle, unavailable, special ball bearings unavailable,...long list). Removing bolts was also a nightmare (no surface treatment meant bolts will seize or come off with the thread).

A tip of the hat from a fellow Stagist in the USA, nice video!

Great example, great setting, filming and presentation.

Great sports car, brings back memories of my brother rebuilding one it was a sweet purring vehicle with style. Thank you for sharing this important landmark in history.

Nice job on the editing Chris, I love all the detailed camera angles and shots, a nice video all round.

@victoraustin9429

3 жыл бұрын

You all probably dont care but does anybody know a way to get back into an instagram account..? I stupidly forgot my login password. I would love any assistance you can offer me!

@jeffreykoda3049

3 жыл бұрын

@Victor Austin Instablaster =)

@victoraustin9429

3 жыл бұрын

@Jeffrey Koda I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and I'm trying it out now. I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@oldtimer43

3 жыл бұрын

@@victoraustin9429 Not a question about not caring, I wish I knew the answer for you, Have you googled it?

@victoraustin9429

3 жыл бұрын

@Jeffrey Koda it did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. I am so happy! Thank you so much you really help me out !

Triumph Stag best looking and best sounding car ever made

Cracking video Chris with all its faults just a great piece of design happy 50th anniversary Triumph Stag

Great video work. Lovely car.

A great drive round and perfect driving roads for our beautiful Triumph Stag. Very nice video Chris. Cheers Bob (SOC member and Stag owner for the last 40 years. My Stag is a 1976 model in red known as the Red Devil owing to its 666R registion. Keep safe and well Chris all the best Bob Essex Area.

Great video very informative and creative. Well done Chris

Hi Chris, excellent camera work, nice commentary, well done, an excellent presentation.

@chrisoffer5874

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Dave. Sorry, somehow I missed that you'd commented.

This is not a Stag V8 engine!

If they had used the 3.5ltr Buick engine it would have been a massive winner.

Great vid. You always see 'crinklies' driving them these days.

What a brilliant video - and a nice nod to Top Gear the way it was filmed :-)

The I of W looks like its in a time warp....beautiful

Well made Chris

Something strange about this car. You describe the overheating issues and show some kind of fake steam when pulling up the bonnet. We could not see the engine, the camera shots of the exhaust and car driving by doesn't sound right. So is the car of yours a Stag V8 ? Surely one of the greatest stag features it's the note of its engine, I just didn't hear that with yours. I could be wrong .. but as a fellow Stag owner yours sounds completely different to mine.

Super video. Bravo Sir.

@paulkelley2725

3 жыл бұрын

Great video, nicely done Chris. Great car a we Stagists know, and yours is in the correct colour too!!

excellant video - thats my ol stag, i do regret selling now.

@chrisoffer5874

3 жыл бұрын

Hi George. Glad you like the video. The car's been well looked after since you parted with it and thoroughly enjoyed. Hope you're enjoying the Daimler! I'll give you first refusal if I should decide to sell the Stag but I'm enjoying it too much at the moment.

@georgechecker9262

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisoffer5874 Hi Chris Daimler is good, doing ongoing jobs. I had to get another stag, another resto project from Hastings area. stripped it then a month later, i had to have a quadruple by pass.The next 12 months was spent getting myself steadily better at the same time putting the car back together, a bit challenging at times but got there . im 18 months now in recovery, things are getting better, tis a slow ol process though. Im glad you are enjoying the Bee... When I belonged to uxbridge club , another mate also had yellow stag called Bumble!

@chrisoffer5874

3 жыл бұрын

@@georgechecker9262 Sorry to hear about your health and hope your full recovery will be soon and full. I've also replied to you on WhatsApp.

Great !!

I am 67, and when just 15 there was a TV program called Owen MD. The credits had a stag driving to the Music of Sleepy Shores. Would love to see that footage again. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hpOCqquJXdyyepM.html

Nice tribute... Sounds like a straight six

@chrisoffer5874

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Indeed it is.

@MrDodgedollar

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds good… But… The TV8 sounds not of this earth..!

Sounds like he has swapped out the V8 for a 2.5 litre six to me

@georgechecker4941

Жыл бұрын

2.5 litre, Correct. It was me who fitted. Chris bought from me 3 + years ago. I had it for 20 years, luved it. Missed so much, got another but the triumph 3.0 l v8. Sounds great, more refined but they are fragile and designed to fail re water pump/header tank/head bolt arrangement, timing chains, alloy heads, crank. Oddly, I prefer the 3.0 litre, but the 2.5 straight 6 is more bullet proof.

Long on the A STTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGG .............(said jezza).............

Great Video and humour Chris. I have a 73 in a similar yellow. I bought mine with the Rover 3.5, but put the rover R380 5 speed box and BMW 2.93 diff in as well. Your dashboard looks identical to mine, burr wood grain and black bezels. Out of curiosity is your engine a 6cyl or a different V8.

Engine note sounds like a Triumph 2.5 PI

@chrisoffer5874

Жыл бұрын

It's actually a 2.5TC!

A good vid, but I can't help wondering why your car doesn't really sound like a Stag. I owned one back in the 80s, loved it, and enjoyed the camaraderie of the enthusiastic owners club. Sadly, had to sell her when I left the RN and a subsequent owner swapped out the original V8 for a Triumph straight 6. I'd defo have another, but I've recently, (and finally,) acquired an example of my life long dream car, from the same era, a Citroen SM.

Did you forget the spitfire?

Was overheating the only problem and how was it fixed? Some people put Rover 3.5 lumps in. why do this?

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Triumph should've tried the Daimler 250 V8 engine. Would've been ideal in every respect.

@chrisoffer5874

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if anyone's ever done that. I've never heard of it being done.

@keyboarddancers7751

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisoffer5874 The purists would probably have a heart attack because of the rarity of the donor although a Stag 250 would still actually be a genuinely all-British affair (if you ignore Michelotti's input!) given that the typical Rover V8 swap was originally a Buick design albeit of the same period as the Daimler. Interestingly, the 250's designer Edward Turner is said to've based its cylinder head on those he'd designed for Triumph motorcycle engines so there could be a legitimate if rather tenuous marque connection if such a chimaera was ever brought into existence!

Ld.32275LA Magenta 1974

Terrible car

@julesviolin

2 жыл бұрын

Owned an early Mk2 for 15 years. Great car. Never let us down and doubled in price by the time we sold it

LD18181LD white 1972