Article on Del Lines' original Stag engined estate.

[CloudWalker]

I knew Alan Chatterton when he was a student, apparently he had a picture of that car on his bedroom wall rather than the usual Lambo or Ferrari

When I told him I had a Stag engined estate 10 years ago you could see the anguish on his face until I told him it wasn't a Del Lines original but one I had built myself

The right bloke got hold of it in the end, I am amazed he managed to get the original registration back though

Neil

Spotted this post on a random googling .... that car was never on my wall as a kid .... it was in our garage. My late father bought it from Del

[Mopo]

A friend of mine is having a good go at doing a stag estate. I think it will be a very cool car.

[Dean]

Now that’s going to be a real stag estate

[flying farmer]

Now that is an ambitious project!

[mike@thenook]

The Triumph Estate was a gorgeous looking car IMO. I was lucky enough to be leant a 2.5S estate manual O/d when my then father in law worked for BL. Took it all the way to the Dordogne and back for a weeks holiday - absolutely loved it!
A V8 one would be even better and a real Q car - jealous……Oh yes!

[mike@thenook]

A friend of mine is having a good go at doing a stag estate. I think it will be a very cool car.

I often wondered why this hasn’t been done before, looks like a relatively simple piece of panelling but the glass work will be more tricky,

Look forward to seeing that finished

[bullstarz]

A friend of mine is having a good go at doing a stag estate. I think it will be a very cool car.

Without offending the person who is attempting to do the car, which making a true Triumph stag estate is commendable as it would be a Triumph stag that was converted into an estate rather than just a Triumph 2000 with a stag V8 engine dropped in. However, why would you want to take a convertible car and convert it into and estate, it’s a bit of an odd one unless of course it was rotten and needed to be done.

Looking at the photos it looks like a A complete mismatch bodged job mashed up novice affair. Making the roof out of, what looks like two roofs, is a bit strange rather than just making it out of one piece of steel. I’ve no idea what the holes are behind the new rear wings. I think there’s going to need a lot more strengthening in the chassis to make it work. For as soon as the part behind the sear and in front of the boot is removed the car flex all over the place.

now if I wanted to make a more stag orientated version of an estate I would have taken a triumph 2000 replace the rear wheel arches with a triumph stag ones. And then put all the required Triumph stag only parts on the car.

but good luck to the bloke who is doing it, I hope it turns out alright. I know my car is not perfect but I now feel a bit embarrassed about taking it to my new place of work. As they are absolute perfectionist when it comes to bodywork and panel gaps. They’re not really concerned with the engines or the mechanic side of things, just complete bodywork and fabrication freaks. Which is possibly why now I’m looking at the atemps of this stag estate project, thinking it looks really bad, I do apologise.

[fussydave]

Isn't the Stag fastback almost an estate?

Dave.

[Mopo]

Believe me it will be done to the very highest standard. The pictures are just mock ups at the moment. The guy doing it runs his own very successful hot rod garage so he definitely knows how to modify cars I’ve seen some of his work.

[DJT]

Someone tried it on a Vanguards model:

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