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Articles | History and culture
Bob Tullius' "Group 44" GT6
This is the story of a great car, that driven by the right people did great performances in the SCCA championship in 1969 and 1970. The Bob Tullius GT6 was recently found and restored in her original conditions, thanks to a thorough research and with information form experts, so that today we can again admire this piece of Triumph racing history. Sold at the RM Monterey auction in 2012, we wait to see her again on the USA racing tracks.
Articles | Technical and tuning
SAH 8 porte 1.147cc
The short history of the birth of this small wonder that has written pages of the racing history of the small Spitfire. This article is just a small contribution to make the facts that have led to the birth of this head known, and to tell how Triumph could manage its limited economical resources to be able to compete in the motorsport world. A small object, but full of significance, that could give its lucky owners great satisfactions. Very rare, it has almost no market. We in "Triumph in Ital...
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Articles | History and culture
A treasure hunt!
In the mid-70s British Leyland commissioned the creation of a Spitfire sales brochure to be set in Italy. The result is a fine example of advertising that left some unanswered questions and the opportunity for a treasure hunt in the Tuscan hills.
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".
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.
Documents | Manuals
Spitfire 1500. Manuale delle riparazioni (5/7) (1975)
Manuale di officina per le Spitfire 1500. Questa parte contiene i capitoli:
- Rapporto al ponte
- Guida e sterzo
- Sospensione anteriore
- Sospensione posteriore
Si ringrazia Matteo Rinaldi per aver condiviso questo documento.
