[Mgs] Unique car

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Max...
I thought it looked sort of funny (the spelling that is...) Also I  hope 
nobody thinks I meant to say it looks like an "Austin-Healey TR4 AC Ace" 
Actually the Swallow Coachbuilding Company were a pretty active little  
concern in the 1930's and 40's...An American named Arthur Anderson and his  
daughter the beautiful California Blond by the name of Dorothy Deen (who passed  away 
just recently) flew over to England and Dorothy Deen and Arthur Anderson  
made contacts and met a fellow named Frank Rainbow who'd recently designed a  
svelte body that he wanted to see produced into a sports car along the lines of  
the Jaguar XK120...Along the way they contacted Triumph Standard and made a 
deal  to market the entire Triumph -Standard motorcar line in the US..If they 
could  also sell their little dream car The Swallow-Dorretti. 
Alas after seeing that the Swallow Dorretti could cause them to lose  
potential customers in the USA, Jaguar who had a contract with  Swallow-Doretti told 
the little Coach Builder  that if they didn't stop  building the neat 
Swallow-Dorretti bodies for Anderson and Dorothy Deen....Well,  lets say Jaguar was 
apt to put the coach builder out of business and for sure  they would stop doing 
any business with Swallow Coachworks, et al! Needless to  say production 
stopped immediately....The Bodies that hadn't been mated to  engines and drive 
trains were sold to Monks Garage at Monksplath...See more  about this anomaly of 
the early 1950's by going to. _http://www.doretti.co.uk/_ 
(http://www.doretti.co.uk/) 
Albert Escalante CCBCC=Left Coast



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