Articles | History and culture

Kas Kastner's TR 250K

A real masterpiece, born from the intelligence of two persons that loved and still love cars. From the first draft to the build of this "special" that marked an era. Technical Virtuosity?

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Models: Roadster TRX / Roadster TR2 / Roadster TR3 / Roadster TR4

Keywords: Kas Kastner / Peter Brock / Prototypes / Sport / TR250K

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Articles | History and culture

TRS "Sabrina"

24 hours of Le Mans, the adventure par excellence. The great manufacturers still today challenge each other to impose and demonstrate their winning technology. The fascination of this race attracts the racing departments engineers to new challenges. The Triumph TRS, built in 1961 on the TR3 frame, is the tangible proof of this.

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Models: Roadster TRX / Roadster TR2 / Roadster TR3 / Roadster TR4

Keywords: Canley / Le Mans / Sabrina / Sport

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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 unfortunately the time-machine is not invented yet. But we can luckily know him a bit more closer thanks to our friend Tom Robinson, that I wholeheartedly thanks, that tells us of his meeting with Walter, occurred in the 70s. In this article we tried to tell the works of this great British designer, even if we are fully aware that many aspects should be studied in more depth and clarified. We therefore thanks in advance all those that could provide us with more information on the life and works of Walter Belgrove.


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Models: Roadster TRX / Roadster TR2 / Roadster TR3

Keywords: Canley / Walter Belgrove

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Articles | History and culture

60 years of Triumph TR6

Just 60 years have passed since the first TR left the Triumph factory, starting a line of sport cars loved by enthusiasts all over the world. This article does not want to tell the whole story, but to provide a summary of the main essential elements of this history.

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Models: Roadster 1800 e 2000 / Roadster TRX / Roadster TR2 / Roadster TR3 / Roadster TR4 / Roadster TR5 / Roadster TR6 / Roadster TR7 / Roadster TR7 Sprint / Roadster TR8

Keywords: Giovanni Michelotti / Kas Kastner / Peter Brock / Sabrina / TR250K

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