> Malcolm Walker wrote (and Damian Carvolth also wrote something similar):
>
> >The Dolomite was once referred to as "the best Alfa that Triumph ever
> >built". It's a very pretty car....
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, R. John Lye noted:
> ...It was indeed Donald Healey who convinced Triumph to build it, and
> who was hit by a train during the Monte Carlo Rallye somewhere in
> Scandinavia; apparently, he was lucky to survive.
If you can, surf on over to Club Triumph's Web site (great site, BTW)
<http://club.triumph.org.uk/anniversary/anniv.htm> for a couple of
pictures of the straight-eight Dolomite.
Meanwhile, John also mentioned:
> [The] later Dolomite was a large-ish sedan, with a Chrysler
> inspired "waterfall" grill, which was quite dramatic for 1939...This
> was a production car, unlike Donald Healey's Alfa-inspired factory race
> cars, so there were quite a few more of the later cars.
A picture of a Dolomite of this variety can also be seen at the Club
Triumph site: <http://club.triumph.org.uk/anniversary/historic.htm> --
about half-way down the page.
FWIW, I believe the American car that inspired the Dolomite's grille was
the Terraplane (Hudson product), of which there might still be about as
many surviving as there are Triumph Dolomites. ;-)
There was a beautiful light grey Dolomite sedan that used to live in the
Midwest U.S. and appeared at a couple of VTR National meets in the
mid-1980s. I don't know the current whereabouts of the car, though.
--Andy
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