Spitfire triumph spitfire? rebodied?

[novelist10]

this car is at the harold lemay car musuem here in tacoma washington. i have been curious about it for years. the tour guide (who was very annoying by the way) said it was a spitfire that had a custom body on it. apparently triumph had the option of sending you a custom body if you so wished? i would love to find more of these.

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[Twosheds]

the tour guide (who was very annoying by the way)

It's so hard to find a decent docent these days.

 

[Andrew Mace]

apparently triumph had the option of sending you a custom body if you so wished?

I think it's more a matter that the Spitfire (like the Herald it was based on) lent itself more easily to later rebodying due to the separate chassis construction. I've never heard of Standard-Triumph having done anything like what's pictured, but there were (and still are) a number of outfits that could provide various body kits.

Triumph did provide mechanicals and sometimes chassis and other bits to various small British manufacturers such as Bond (Equipe GT4S, for example) and Fairthorpe (Electron Minor, for example), not to mention cars such as the Swallow Doretti, Italia and Peerless/Warwick.

 

[UltimateQuestion]

Looks like an AWE Redwing which used a Herald/Spitfire Frame and running gear. AWE Redwing Definately NOT from the Standard Triumph Co.

 

[novelist10]

interesting input guys. its like a wellspring of information in here. that 'tour guide' was kinda ignorant. in fact, when he was showing the mga and the austin sitting by the triumph, he turned to me and said, well what can you tell us about these cars? hahahahahahahaha.

 

[Andrew Mace]

I've met new car salespersons like that.

 

[novelist10]

and i know the ultimate question. its pick a number, any number. i am also not panicking, and i know where my towel is.