Articles | History and culture
Crayford Engineering TR7 Tracer: the sporting Triumph that failed to make the grade
Crayford Engineering sought to produce an interesting variation on the TR7 theme, and ended up hatching out this little beauty. Now restored and owned by Chris Turner, the Chairman of the TR Drivers Club, it made its show debut at the Practical Classics Restoration Show.
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Models: Roadster TR7 / Roadster TR7 Sprint / Roadster TR8
Keywords: Converters
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Articles | History and culture
Triumph’s missed supermini opportunity
Here’s an interesting one recently brought to my attention. AROnline Contributor David Harvey got in touch to remind us that it wasn’t just BMC that had missed the boat to replace the Mini and ADO16 with something resembling what we now know as a two-car supermini and Golf-class range.
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Models: 1300 1300/1300TC
Keywords: Giovanni Michelotti / Harry Webster / Views / Prototypes
Articles | History and culture
Was the Triumph Acclaim Japanese or British?
Chris Cowin delves into the history of building the Triumph Acclaim at Cowley, countering the myth it was simply a screwdriver operation unpacking and assembling Japanese kits. Such a belief is rather unfair to the people who worked there in the 1980s.
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Models: 1300 1300/1300TC / 1500 1500/1500TC / Acclaim Acclaim / Dolomite Sprint / Roadster TR7 / Roadster TR7 Sprint / Roadster TR8
Articles | History and culture
The Triumph Stag and its US misadventure
The Triumph Stag might have looked like an absolute winner in the American market – it had glamour, style and panache, and yet it failed miserably.
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Models: Roadster TR6 / Stag Mk1/Mk2
Keywords: Michael Cook / Views / Spen King