By John Sprinzel So, what’s this rallying all about? A little while back Denise McCluggage, my journalist and competition driver pal, wrote a very thoughtful article in AutoWeek. She had just visited a world rally championship event in Europe where, back in the ’60s, we had both driven factory Mini Coopers. This had given her…
By Alan Paradise As we all have come to know, British sports cars defined an entire automotive marketplace. In the not-so-distant past, British sport cars dominated the two-seater market. Models from Triumph, MG, Jaguar, Lotus, Morgan, and Austin Healey could be seen on the streets of America and throughout Europe on an everyday basis. Over…
By Bill Piggot During the winter of 1952/53, from the ashes of the hastily assembled and ill-received 20TS prototype came Triumph’s successful TR2. As is well known, the first two production cars, commission numbers TS1 and TS2, were built in July 1953. TS1 was dispatched to Montreal for display at the forthcoming Canadian Motor Show,…
Driving Light Relay When I installed a driving light on my MC TC, I powered it through a relay. This allowed me to apply full battery voltage to the light without subjecting my driving light switch to the full lamp current. It also allowed me to tie the driving light into my high beam…
By Paul Richardson After my training period as a receptionist at Western Avenue, A.G. “Jock” Brown, the Sales and Service Manager of Standard Triumph London, decided I was fit to be transferred to the company showrooms at 15/17 Berkeley Square W1. There were about six sales representatives in the showroom at any one time, and…
By Alan Paradise Without them, there would be no passion. There would be no need for winding country roads. No reason for driving caps and water-resistant parkas. No longing for early spring drives. They are our beloved British sports cars. From the fundamentally basic early MGs to the much-maligned yet innovative Triumph TR7, every British…
By Harry Newton By the time this appears in British Motoring, the Car of the Century will have been named, selected by a panel of experts from all around the world. It is embarrassing to admit I was not among the top 132 journalists who devoted part of the last three years to making the…
By Harry Newton At the Louis Vuitton Classic in New York a couple years ago, a Jaguar XK120 C-Type was one of the 50 diverse world-class vehicles exhibited. The C Jag has been one of my personal favorites ever since the early 1950s, when I first saw Gordon MacKenzie competing, appropriately attired in his clan’s…
