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Articles | History and culture
Panther Rio: the Triumph Dolomite that costs more than a Jaguar XJ
Bob Jankel of Panther had the great idea of building a luxury car based on the Triumph Dolomite. Was the Panther Rio the first premium-priced small car, or just an expensive folly?
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...
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Articles | History and culture
Triumphant artworks
How do you judge the beauty of a car? Triumph cars appear in some cinema masterpieces (such as the TR3A in “La dolce vita”) and then they have been loved by many authors and men of culture. But unexpectedly a TR3A and a GT6 also appear in the works of two well-known and controversial artists, although different in their expressive techniques: Christo and Banksy.
Books | Technical
Triumph Spitfire e GT6
If you're Italian, one problem when looking for Triumph literature is the difficulty to get any in your language. If you're not confident with English, there are really few books that may help you and this, written by Eros talking about the "sister" Spitfire and GT6, is one of them.
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...
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Documents | Sales brochures
Una nuova esperienza d'automobilismo! (1959)
The Herald 948 is intoduced to the Italian market in this lovely brochure, where text and illustrations are tipically 50s.
