1953–1981
Triumph TR2 to TR8: Proving a Point on a Belgian Motorway
Triumph entered the postwar sports-car race later than MG, and its first serious attempt, the 1952 TRX prototype, was an expensive dead end. The TR2 that reached production in 1953 was, by contrast, almost aggressively simple: a 1,991cc four-cylinder engine adapted from the Standard Vanguard saloon, mounted in a plain…
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1962–1980
Triumph Spitfire: An Italian Suit Over a Family Saloon's Bones
The Triumph Spitfire's underpinnings were never glamorous. When it appeared at the London Motor Show in October 1962, the car sat on a shortened version of the separate chassis Triumph already used for the humble Herald saloon, and it carried over the Herald's swing-axle rear suspension and its small 1,147cc…
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