At 10:19 PM 1/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Since this all a list of opinions...
>(snip) The 4-8 series were not
>attractive. The Italia is undiluted Michelotti <sp?>, and as such is a
>beautiful car. The Spitfire was allowed to keep the delicate lines that I
>think were hallmarks of Michelotti's work. The others were pretty heavily
>bastardized in there own right for economy sake.
>(snip)
point(s) of clarification, TR4 was Michelotti as well and, as I recall, the
TR3 (agreeably a beautiful car) was not- Personally, I love the TR4-250
look (but my Triumph IS a Spitfire)
as Greg Petrolati once told me when describing his TR4 "It screams 60s
sports car", for their era all the TRs were great lookers (yes, I include
the TR7-8, we'd all love to have one galvanized with a modern
electronically fuel injected 2.5-3 liter engine, wouldn't we?)
the most important thin about Triumph in my view is that no Triumph was a
copy of anything else
Joe
Joseph R. Schneider, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Vascular Surgery
Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA
joe-schneider@northwestern.edu
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~jschneid/JRS.HTML
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