We can all enjoy our car in the present,but it pays never to forget that each and every one of them has a past.
![The Secret Life Of A TR3A](https://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/9950/211839/58c65c80d13ac/The-Secret-Life-Of-A-TR3A.jpg)
I have a very old wristwatch. It’s gold, it has a Swiss movement and amazingly, it still works. I don’t wear it though, and for several reasons. True, it’s not quite my style, I’m not sure it keeps very good time and I’m scared of losing or breaking it, but I’m not even sure those are the real reasons. It’s probably because it belonged to my dear old dad. I look at it sometimes and remember him checking the time very, very precisely. But, I also look at it and wonder where it has been, what it has seen. If that watch could talk, what stories could it tell and what insight into my dad’s life could it provide?
The thing is, people of his era don’t seem to talk too much about their lives, particularly the wartime years. I know he served in the Royal Navy during the war and travelled quite a bit. He’d tell me what it was like and about his friends, maybe one or two amusing anecdotes, but there is a certain modesty to veterans of his time. I know there’d have been many experiences and sights that would not be shared, yet that watch will have been privy to the whole bally lot. No one could ever know about the history that hides within just by looking at it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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APPRENTICE TR2
History repeats itself as RHP 552 is handed over to apprentices – 64 years after the last time!
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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.
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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](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/9950/388344/5e26c03c893c5/crp_Herald-suspension-overhaul.jpg)
Herald Suspension Overhaul
Thorough investigation turns into a major overhaul and a future-proofed Triumph
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Hotter Rockets Launched For 2020
The world’s largest-capacity volume production motorcycle just got bigger.
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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.