In the latter half of the 1960s, the British car industry was starting to show signs of the struggles it would undergo which hit it hardest in the 1970s.  The United States had begun pushing for higher safety standards and planned emissions rules.  As Triumph didn’t have a lot of money to develop a new model to meet the upcoming regulations and to keep interest in their cars, they, instead they opted to preserve the Giovanni Michelotti designed body of the TR4A and fitted it with a version of their 2 liter inline 6 cylinder engine from the Triumph 2000, bored out to 2.5 liters.  This new model, outside the United States, was fitted with a Lucas developed mechanical fuel injection system and was sold as the TR5, while in the United States, it was fitted with a pair of Zenith Stromberg carburettors in order to more easily meet incoming emissions guidelines and sold as the TR250.  Introduced in 1967, the car only lasted through 1968, when it was replaced by the TR6, which had updated styling by Karmann, but underneath the body changes, was essentially an identical car. I bought this Triumph TR250 as a collection of parts, it having been disassembled in 1982 with the intention of restoring it.  Aside from some work, including stripping the body, and gathering of some new old stock parts, it had largely sat untouched until I bought it and turned it over to Vintage