1975 Triumph T160 ENG. T160BK02079 FRAME. T160BK02079 MILEAGE. 360 $22,000 - $28,000
THE MINTA With fewer than 360 genuine miles on the clock and 100% factory correct, this has to be one of the cleanest Tridents available in Australasia. Returning to Triumph’s signature design lines, the T160 added the aggressive sloping cylinder line (via the deleted BSA Rocket III) in the final year of Triumph production. The T160c was produced in one of Triumph’s more troublesome years and was overshadowed by the newly elected British Industry Minister Eric Varley’s recall of a loan of four million pounds in July 1975 and
the subsequent refusal to renew the export credits of the Norton Villiers Triumph company. These events threw Triumph into receivership and caused mass redundancies. The T160c is a timely reminder that bad decisions are made through good times and bad. The quality and sophistication of the T160c has outlived both Mr Varley’s controversial decision to pull the rug
out from under the British motorcycle industry and the big-bike trends of the time. It is no wonder that Triumph, having risen from the ashes, returned to the philosophy of the triple for the contemporary rider.
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