Captains Courageous: Salvatore Ruffino and his Italia
Articles | History and culture

Captains Courageous: Salvatore Ruffino and his Italia
When in November 1944 Sir John Black bought the ruins of Triumph, he had a dream: he wanted to use the brand “Triumph” to compete with his friend William Lyons, the owner of SS Cars Ltd ( later to become Jaguar ) to whom the “Standard Motor Company” had been a long time engines supplier. In 1958 when Salvatore Ruffino decided to build his coupe, Edmonds, the representative of Standard in Italy, thought that the dream of Sir John Black (who had since left the Standard ) could find be fulfilled. H... (more)
Triumph TR7 buying advice
Articles | Technical and tuning

Triumph TR7 buying advice
The TR7 has aroused conflicting opinions since its debut, due to its peculiar and somehow shocking design. However, it enjoyed a good commercial success - being the best-selling of the TR family - and even today many petrolheads fancy this sports car at a discount price. If you belong to this category, we recommend you to read this article.
British Leyland House Badge positioning
Articles | Restorations

British Leyland House Badge positioning
The British Leyland badge on Spitfire and GT6 can be found in the most different positions, due to inaccurate restorations or simply because with the years the adhesive on the back of the badge loses its function, causing the badge to be lost on the road. This article gives the indications for the correct positioning of the badge.
Triumph Spitfire and GT6: A Guide to Originality
Books | Technical

Triumph Spitfire and GT6: A Guide to Originality
One good thing about the Spitfire is that you don't need to be a classic cars enthusiast to appreciate it but you just have to want to own and drive a fun, easy-to-manage roadster. But if you are an enthusiast or you became it thanks to her, maybe you'd like to know more about her and understand how much your car is close to originality. In this case no book will help you as much as the one by John Thomason would, so that almost everybody refers as it as "the bible".
Stag Mk1/Mk2
Models | Stag

Stag Mk1/Mk2
In 1965 Giovanni Michelotti asked to his friend Harry Webster, Standard-Triumph Director of Engineering & Development, to supply him a 2000 Mk1 to transform in a convertible to display at the forthcoming Turin Motor Show. Webster agreed on the understanding that he could keep this model-to-be for him. Michelotti's design was so appreciated that not only Triumph produced the convertible, but its styling affected the 2000 Mk2. Born to compete with Mercedes, the Stag suffered from overheating prob... (more)
TR7 (1978)
Documents | Sales brochures

TR7 (1978)
Small leaflet of the TR7 coupè.