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ZIGGY'S NO BANGER!
Good friends Paul Herbert and Chris Harding bought this Mk2 Spitfire in 2014 to use on a Banger Rally. Six years on they’ve still got the Triumph, and it is running better than ever.
The right choice
In 1978 a Triumph Stag would have been a brave choice as your only car, but after 41 years and getting on for 200,000 miles together, it was clearly the perfect fit for Malcolm and Vera Whitehouse.
THE GREY LADY
In the mid-1930s the New Avon Coachbuilding Co started to build luxury saloons and no longer concentrated on building smaller open sports cars. Phil Homer introduces a luxury product of the era, a six-cylinder Avon on the Standard Flying 16 chassis, and explains why it wasn’t a success.
HAROLD THE HERALD
Over the last 20 years, Harold the Herald has been through five distinct phases of development. Now though, with owner Dale Barker going soft and transferring his favours to a big and comfortable saloon, Harold is looking for a new home.
APPRENTICE TR2
History repeats itself as RHP 552 is handed over to apprentices – 64 years after the last time!
A LASTING PASSION
Lee Godfrey has featured in these pages before, but his enthusiasm for the big Triumphs remains undiminished. Mike Taylor talks to him about the model, his latest example and how the passion started.
A flurry of activity ends 2019 season
H&H’s last sale of 2019 was at the Buxton Pavilion and offered 127 lots.
Herald Suspension Overhaul
Thorough investigation turns into a major overhaul and a future-proofed Triumph
Hotter Rockets Launched For 2020
The world’s largest-capacity volume production motorcycle just got bigger.
SPECIAL EDITION DOLOMITE 1500
Andrew Burford reckons that a 1500SE represents the epitome of Dolomite design. Mike Taylor meets the man who likes to champion the underdog, and his ultra-rare example of Triumph’s evergreen Dolomite saloon.
PROJECT ZOIC
By 1958 Standard’s midrange saloon, the Vanguard, was ten years old, starting to look long in the tooth and struggling against the competition. Sales had tailed off so much that there was no money being generated for re-investment in a new model, though one was badly needed. ZOIC was the name given to the project to liven up the range. Phil Homer finds that far from being a stop-gap, the cars turned out to be the best Vanguards the company built.
Bringing the past back to life
Robert Browett bought his 1967 TR4A in October 2012, but he has a history with the model which goes back to the 1960s.
MORLEY'S MACAU MARVEL
Morley Faulkner worked in the Standard-Triumph Competitions Department and was fortunate enough to drive the Macau racer on several occasions. He never forgot what a delight that car was to drive and has just achieved a long-held dream by building this faithful replica.
Early TR6 comes home
Steve Denton first got into Triumphs as the result of a misunderstanding. It was a most fortuitous mistake though and he now has the Triumph fleet of his dreams, including his ideal car in this early TR6.
Fortune favours the brave
If you are buying a £2 CD from the internet, then you can probably take a chance on it being OK. If you are buying something as complex and potentially expensive as a Triumph Stag, you would probably be well advised to check it out thoroughly before parting with your cash. Sometimes though, you can take a chance and get away with it.
CLOCKWORK ORANGE?
Shawn Daniels has fully restored his 1968 Herald 13/60 convertible. It has ended up a very unusual and very eye-catching shade of orange, but it is fair to say that the restoration went anything but like clockwork.
40 YEARS ON....
Graham Robson reflects on the remarkable career of Triumph’s Small Car (SC) engine, a unit that went out of production nearly four decades ago but whose legacy lives on in so many of the cars we know and love.
The Raneleigh Flyer
Designed and built to bring a bygone motoring era back to life, this Stanbury TT prototype is the ultimate lifestyle accessory for 1940s fans, Shaun and Brenda Beavon.
TR2 vs TR6
For two sports cars with very different personalities, the TR2 and TR6 have a surprising amount in common under the skin. Wayne Scott compares first and last of the separate chassis TRs.
Spitfire 4 & Spitfire 1500
The first Spitfire was somewhat confusingly called the Spitfire 4, though most people refer to it today as the MkI. The 1500 was the last of the line and would logically have been called the MkV, but Triumph were keen to draw attention to its bigger 1493cc engine. That – and the other changes wrought along the way from first to last – make the two cars very different in character, as Iain Ayre explains.
Early Stag Vs Late Stag
The Stag did not change drastically during its seven-year production run, but there are options to consider when comparing early and late cars. Peter Robinson is your guide with an unavoidably cavalier attitude to the concept of first vs last.
1300 FWD Vs Dolomite 1500
To those of us of a certain age, Ajax is a cleaning product. For Triumph, Project Ajax was a clean sheet of paper and it delivered a revolutionary new car for the firm which underwent many changes over its 15 years in production. Bruce Jones is your guide to perhaps the most complicated evolution of any Triumph offering.
Standard-Triumph Powered Morgans Part II (Post-1945)
Our feature last issue highlighted the pre-war Morgans powered by the Standard Special engine. These cars continued to be made after the war, until the Vanguard came along. This issue, Phil Homer looks at the Morgans with Vanguard and TR-based engines that followed.
TriumphTune TR7
A 2-litre, 8-valve TR7 has long been considered the poor relation in the TR line, but how many people have actually driven a good one? And not only a good one, but how many have driven one that has been uprated similarly to many of the earlier TRs? This is the story of one such car, a car that has been in the ownership of Triumph World contributor John Clancy since the early 1980s and kick-started an enduring passion.
The Baby Hoyal
Brian Bromwich has a knack for finding particularly rare and unusual pre-war Triumphs in an advanced state of decrepitude, then restoring them to glory. But while he spent 30 years searching for his glamorous 1939 Dolomite Roadster, this 1928 Hoyal-bodied Triumph Super Seven rather landed in his lap.
Pick A Number From 2 To 10...
Simon upgrades his Herald wipers with the addition of a new intermittent delay
Modernising A Classic Design
We visit Classic Dynamo and Regulator Conversions Ltd, a company that specialises in making sure classic vehicle charging systems are more than capable of coping with 21st century motoring, and receive a crash course in getting the most out of your classic’s electrics from CDRC boss Pete Jury.
Living The Dream
Ollie Hibbert is only 22 years old, but he has owned this fine TR3A for three years already. We went to Norfolk to see if we could discover his secret.
I Want That One...
Having spent his childhood being driven around in this Triumph, there was never any other car that Mick Armstrong was going to restore. Now that it has been converted back from carbs to fuel injection, he is on the finishing straight – after 28 years!
Factory-Fresh Dolomite
David Parrott’s Triumph Dolomite 1850 was used by the company to test and develop interior trim proposals in 1972. As an employee, David helped put some of those original test miles on it, and he liked the car so much that he’s owned it ever since.