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Yes to rear bulb fixes. Thanks

Nice work. My Dad was of a similar age to yours, and I'm roughly the same as you so echo the feet/inches/cm/mm comments. That said, Dad was an Auto Sparky, and I still struggle to understand electrickery! The black insulation tape brings back a lot of memories.

| hot air paint stripping gun works well on heat shrink.

I have a 17 year old Accord that’s better in every way.

The other two holes on the carb allow air in and out of the dash pot chamber. If the holes wernt there the dash pot would be operating with a presure differential and wouldnt want to move as freely. As you rev the engine and the piston in the dash pot moves up it needs to allow the air out of the dash pot. So as the piston lifts the air is expelled out and as the piston drops the air is drawn back in. It just keeps internal and external presures equal so that the desighned damping afect is achieved from the dash pot oil and spring.

What colour are your wheels , also what's involved with fitting mk3 servo ??

It still looked a smoother idle than my mgb , even when out of sync !

Please please I will swap u ... last nite at 2 am it was 29 deg and almost 80% humidity ,,my workshop at the moment is 43? and the humidity thing has broken Japan summertime BRUTAL love the workshop !

Completely agree with you, about a Capri looking much better, than any Mustang. We had the first Mk1's in South Africa ONLY. Of ALL Capris, I love the Mk1 Facelift, with the double headlights and larger taillights...

As Mk1 1973 Facelift owner with 2.8L engine I say this is dangerous car to drive, rear want to come to side. Shame that you can't fit wise tires inside stock arcs, and dont mention fucking fiberglass parts they are bullshit, you want to ligthten aluminum parts and carbonfiber bonnet and boot. Fiberglass cracks and is horrible to work, I would not use fiberglass anywhere else than rowboat.

I personally always preferred the look of the MK1 Capri’s with the boot

Did you go to the mk1 meet at the great British car journey yesterday ? (Sat)

I think it was John Fitzpatrick that said it was the worst handling race car he'd ever driven !!!

My very first car was a triumph GT6 Mk2 Always a smile while driving it.

I loved mine and was sad to let it go. It stared my life long obsession with British Classics

Brilliant video, my first "nice car" was a BRG Mark 3 I bought it from an American pilot who hardly ever used it and it was immaculate, I think I spent as much time just looking at it as driving it.

So it seems my stag is a mixture between M 1 and 2. It is from 72, so it should be a M 1, but he has Black stag badges on the back sides and one in the Grill. Also he has extra headrests. And he has chrome spoked wheels. So, for me it looks perfect. I love to ride it. By the way, very good and informational video. Wish you all good and safe rides all the time 👍

Great video. I just bought a 77 Spitfire, found this very useful. Thanks

Love the videos keep up the good work 👍🏻

Some interesting cars there, on the spitfire I agree with the choice of a new bonnet, you can’t be cutting and bodging bits off this car and that car, will soon come back through in a year or two, I hope you are going to rustproof the new bonnet maybe with some epoxy primer then some stone guard in the wheel arches 👍👍where are you In Yorkshire, I was in the body game 40 years ago before I moved to Mallorca to work on yachts 💪💪💪

Loving the Capri content 🥰... & to think, I'm stressing about changing the gear knob & steering wheel in my Mk3... 😂

I enjoyed you video 😀 by the way the nuts are BA not metric or whitworth 😀😀👍

NO way: one of the worst and utterly unstable sportster

I am enjoying watching you work on this project and look forward to seeing further progress. Back in the early 70's my sister purchased an Anglia for her University transport and I spent many happy hours dealing with the rot and various mechanical issues. At one point I painted the entire car using a product called Re-Paint which was a brush-on finish converting it from a faded orange to a trendy (at the time) beige.

This guy knows what he's talking about!

Top job fella 💪🏻

Brilliant and informative video, thank you. I have been doing up my '72 Mk3 GT6 gradually over the last 6 years and everything you say I can relate with. In particular the aluminium rocker cover, that used to catch and caused a small dent in my bonnet, I have now replaced with an original steel one which fits perfectly. The other issue I have is the bubbling of rust at the bottom of the tailgate as you mentioned. If you know where I can buy a replacement tailgate I would be very interested. Apart from that, I love the GT6.. the looks.. the noise. Over the years it has actually been very reliable. The straight 6 engine is a delight. If you are thinking of buying one... just do it!

Hey, guess what? I have a stag in my garage now. One head came off no problem, double nutted a treat. Other head is being a pain. Did get 3 out, 1 snapped and the other snapped after trying to weld a nut on. So Tomorrow's job is to make a bracket and try and use a jack to get it to move. Thanks for the video and wish me luck. I will feature the whole debacle on my channel sometime in the future. All the best, Mart. PS mic problems can be a pain can't they. I do all my filming on my phone now. Saves all the unreliable mic problems.

Nice job. If you hadn't said it was extended I wouldn't have known. So the aesthetics is spot on. Subbed ya.

My Dad had one in the 70s & he was following it around with fibreglass , wing mirrors etc etc , how the hell are they still in one piece nowww 🤪🥴😳

Why do you make the wheel arch longer?

Great attention to detail and process, so the end result is spot-on👍

... and good morning from sunny Essex. Always interested to see what's happening in sunny Retford, not just what you're doing but why you're doing it - it's always a good feeling to share knowledge and experience.

New to the channel, lovely job mate

I used to work weekends at a stag specialist. One thing you havent mentioned is that towards the end of Mk1 production, they did introduce some things which also appear on Mk 2s at the time we used to refer to K and L reg cars as Mk1 and a half. You are spot on with the door latches on the B posts, there was no cross over with later MK1s having MK2 B post latches. Mk1s generally had A type OD but some of the later MK1 has J type ODs. While I was there, we had a prototype stag I think it s reg number started PVC and it was G reg. The really interesting thing about it was that it had been changed at the factory to be left hand drive OR right hand drive so that it could be presented to the home market and overseas market after swapping dashboards, pedal boxes etc. It also didnt use the stag V8, it had the straight 6 with twin carbs. The weight of the straight 6 engine suited the stag and the engine dropped straight into the engine bay and onto the mountings. I always thought that if I every had any issues with that stag engine , I would drop a triumph 2500S engine into it since the engine bays are almost identical...and the prototype proves it. Original good stag difs were like hens teeth 30 years ago due to the vents blocking, the diff blowing it seals and losing its oil or the aluminium diff back plate bolted to the steel diff carrier and rotting holes in the back plate and the diff losing oil. Although the crown wheel of the stag diff is the same ratio as one of the other triumphs ( I dont recall which one it is) the stag crownwheel is different in that it is broader in order to handle more power. I always suspected that they had wanted to give the stag more power but couldnt because of its cooling issues so the up rated diff made no difference.You mentioned export cars MK1 headrests and side marker lights. The export front bumper brackets were also different in that they had a plate welded over the top of them to reinforce them. I built my stag up to Australian spec and it was a MK 1 so it had those special headrests, the rear marker lights and the bumper brackets. It also had very rare stainless steel caps which fitted on the front and rear top corners of the door cards held onto the doors using small philips head self tappers. And yes!! stag bonnets dont rot but boot lids do! Oh ! one other thing! some MK1 home and export cars had an additional pressed steel ribbed cross brace in the doors presumably for side impact protection.The MK1 light switch also has a fog lamp position on it which the MK2 doesnt have.

Iv always wonder why people who have a tall garage like yours dont take advantage of storing stuff higher up. Like if you got some more pallet racks and make a mesanin for all the pannels that have been sacreficed to save one car, they are still usefull for other cars with different damage. Or just store them and put online for sale whole or part of. Im a hoarder and would most likely have like 50 cars in there and have to work outside if i have room there.

I hope you stay well and keep the videos coming.

Good to see you back mate. The very reason I started restoring cars back in 2012 was due to severe mental problems I had at the time. I don't know how things would have turned out without the projects giving me something positive to think about and get engrossed in. I'm sure all of us wish you well.

Don't know what issues you've had and it's none of my business, but I wish you well and look forward to watching progress on the projects and customer jobs. Best wishes.

I think you should name it Slimer.

Est video I’ve see on how to set up the carbs. Thank you

a motor won't overheat from age

Negligible differences between a Mk1 and Mk2 Stag. Most other cars have more changes without being known as a different mark.

Always promised myself an MGB Roadster when I retired. Then my son asked me to look after his for four weeks whilst he moved house. Result: cured! I'll stick with my creature comforts thank you.

Back in the 1980's I had my Scimitar rear ended by an uninsured Fiesta driver which pushed it onto the bonnet of a GT6 it was parked next to. Fiesta was written off but Scimitar was fixed with a bit of fiberglass work and a new petrol tank!😂

GT6's are a lovely looking car but you can't fit a motorbike on the back seat like you can with a Vitesse convertible!

Had a P reg mk2 back in the 90's spent hours fixing the rotted rear radius arm mount. Rest of it was good but it had a blueprinted essex V6 that I never got round to putting the right carb on and a very indecisive auto box. Made a lovely sound and used to take me daily from south manchester to Huddersfield over Holme Moss.

Yes please do a video on fuel mixture adjustment. Thanks

Nice video as always! Can you pls share the brand of the LED headlights?

Great video, I'm thinking of doing the stagweber conversion to my stag! Do you know if these are a reliable carb? Many thanks Dudley..