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Articles | History and culture
Don't call her "Dolly"
The Dolomite Sprint was the first production car with a 16 valves engine, beloved by the entusiast because of its design e its performance. This is its story, written by a long time owner.
Articles | History and culture
Captains Courageous: Salvatore Ruffino and his Italia
When in November 1944 Sir John Black bought the ruins of Triumph, he had a dream: he wanted to use the brand “Triumph” to compete with his friend William Lyons, the owner of SS Cars Ltd ( later to become Jaguar ) to whom the “Standard Motor Company” had been a long time engines supplier. In 1958 when Salvatore Ruffino decided to build his coupe, Edmonds, the representative of Standard in Italy, thought that the dream of Sir John Black (who had since left the Standard ) could find be fulfilled. H...
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Articles | History and culture
Spitfire. The world of hardtops
A roadster is bought to travel in open air, and then it often ends up covered with an hard top. I do not know if this is a contradiction, but as a matter of fact among the accessories for Triumphs, hardtops are at the foreground, with a great variety of models produced by so many small enterprises. Andrea, with this first contribution, introduce us to this interesting topic.
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 | 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 | Press
Triumph 1.3 Acclaim. Guidare nel segno del piacere. (1982)
Advertising from Quattroruote magazine.
