What became the troubled Triumph Stag started off as a simple request from Giovanni Michelotti to Triumph design chief Harry Webster. Michelotti had strong links to Triumph and wanted a donor car for use in…
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John Black to the Rescue: 1935 Standard 10
“Standard” came to mean something else entirely by the 1950s and mirrored today’s definition of “basic” by the 1960s, but in the early days of the Standard Motor Company, it meant “having standards,” or possibly…
Peak Rover: The P5B Coupe
The term “4-door Coupe” is overused today to the point of being meaningless, but for decades there was only one car that used this term and actually pulled it off. Rover’s P5 Coupe was an…