Beans' Triumph TR7 Blog

Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car. Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall. Torque is how far you take the wall with you ... Or ramblings on three originally Dutch TR7's (a 1976 FHC, a 1980 DHC and a 1981 Sprint powered FHC), including the work done to them and their (ab)use all over Europe. With some of my other passions thrown in from time to time ...

Saturday, 16 July 2016

It's official!

I received a letter from the Internal Revenue Office today. It contained the official statement that the 1976 FHC, which I am currently restoring, was first registered 40 years ago on October the 6th of this year. And as such it will be tax exempt from that date on ...

Next question of course is, how long that is going to last? As I received two similar letters for both my other TR7's. That was when they turned 25. But that limit was changed to 40 a few years ago. Time will tell how long it will last now ...

Also the date on the letter is interesting as it dates from 21 July 2016. Back to the future!

2 comments:

Patrick said...: Hello from France
The orange and part black back stucture of your TR7 shows with your spécial photo that TR7 is a natural catch eyes creation .A futur orange structure TR7 !?
Patrick; 25 July 2016 at 17:43:00 CEST
Beans said...: Thx Patrick, the black details set of the orange paintwork very nice indeed.
Shame I can't spend as much time on the car is would like at the moment.; 25 July 2016 at 19:56:00 CEST