Avon Acclaim: adding pace and posh to the LC9
Articles | History and culture

Avon Acclaim: adding pace and posh to the LC9
Ladbroke Avon put together an interesting upmarket version of the Acclaim. It was initially only made available through the Henlys franchise, before being offered to a wider audience after the Turbo was launched in 1983. As a result, the Avon Acclaim sold in small numbers – a handful of which, still survive.
Walter Belgrove, the man with a magic pencil
Articles | Biographies

Walter Belgrove, the man with a magic pencil
Donald Healey said that he was “the first real British designer”. This would suffice to define Walter Belgrove. The Triumph myth owns much to the work, imagination and creativity of this artist and designer. Even today we remain captured by the lines of the Triumph that he shaped: suffice it to think of TR2 and TR3, not to say ofth e mythical “Flow-Free” of the ‘30s. Walter Belgrove is one of those figures that, as a Triumph enthusiast, I would like to have met once in my life, but unfortunatel... (more)
When Turin was the automobile capital
Articles | History and culture

When Turin was the automobile capital
Turin, Autumn 1962, 44° International Automobile Show. It is an important event for Triumph who has three bets to be win with three important news: the new distributor for Italy, Ducati Meccanica, the new Spitfire and the new Vitesse. In this article unpublished photographs of the Triumph stand in this event are given.
Giovanni Michelotti. Una matita libera
Books | History

Giovanni Michelotti. Una matita libera
In the car world there are names that sound unknown to the most, even to enthusiasts, due to the expressed desire to remain on the sidelines, to enjoy the creative freedom given by anonymity. Giovanni Michelotti was one of the most ingenious exponents of Italian design and the discretion, in his case, was intentional: this book, born by the will of his son Edgardo, finally does him justice.
Roadster TR8
Models | Roadster

Roadster TR8
Soprannominata la "Corvette inglese" questo modello venne presentato nella versione coupè e successivamente fece il debutto anche la versione "convertibile". Dalla spiccata linea a cuneo, fu inizialmente offerta con l'alimentazione a doppio carburatore Stromberg; nel 1980 venne presentata la versione a iniezione elettronica L-Jetronic della Bosh che poteva garantire un surplus di potenza fino a 147 cv a 5000 giri ed una accelerazione da 0 a 100 in meno di 8 secondi.
Nuovo Atlas da 6 quintali (1959)
Documents | Sales brochures

Nuovo Atlas da 6 quintali (1959)
Rare Italian brochure of the Standard Triumph Van.