HARRY & CHRIS MAGUE'S GARAGE
1974 TR6
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CF 16233
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Current Caretaker:
Harry Mague
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Harry and Chris Mague’s Garage Queen
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bought my TR6 early in 1975 while attending Air Force Pilot training in Arizona. My car had a build date of December 1973 but was listed as a 1974 which in the following years presented challenges because it had both1973/1974 engine parts and specifications. I bought my car from a fellow student whose family was expecting and need a family car, and I needed a second car. He had put around 40,000 miles on it in the first year. In the next 20 years, the car was the most reliable car as we moved nine times. It even followed us to Hawaii for 3 years. After the end of my years Air Force, the car had been driven in a lot of harsh environments including 10 years in northern rust belt at Rome, NY. Over the next years, I undertook a complete restoration with a British Heritage new body and a new upgraded Ratco frame. Today, she sleeps during the winter and is driven only on the best of days. She has won numerous local and national car shows and is a joy to drive.
1963 Triumph Herald
"The First Car"
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Gone
But not forgotten
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How I Began Loving Triumphs
My story began in the summer of 1968, between sophomore and junior year at college. Needing a car for the summer job I had, a family friend had this 1963 Triumph Hearld. Mom and Dad “loaned” the $400 needed and I have my first Triumph. Never having driven a stick, needless to say, I beat that transmission up pretty good. It took about a year, and I had beaten the Hearld to the point I needed a replacement. All the universal joints were shot, the transmission needed work, and the trans axel needed work. It was beyond my young understanding and ability to fix it on my own and the cost had to work done exceeded the worth of the car. After another “loan”, I got my 1963 Tr4.
1963 TR4
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Gone
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Moving Up to My TR4
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Between junior and senior year in college, I got my first real Triumph. She was a 1963 TR4. I think we paid around $900. It was purchase from the New Jersey Triumph dealer in Springfield, NJ. It was a solid axle, A type overdrive, but had a big dent in the passenger side door. This was my first introduction in auto repair. Took off the inside panel and one punch the dent was gone. I did notice how thin the doors were. I started to notice I could do maintenance on the car instead of running the dealer. When I graduated from college in 1970 and went off the Air Force, the car sat in my parent’s driveway until they got so tired of it, they sold it the kid next door. To this day I wish I would have been able to talk my parents into keeping it for me!