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Triumph GT6 Mk I. The new car was introduced in 1966 and called the Triumph GT6. The new body was a sleek fastback design with an opening rear hatch, earning the GT6 the nickname of poor man's E-Type. [2] It was really a 2-seater, but a small extra rear seat could be ordered, large enough for small children.
Both the 2000 and the Fury are powered by the 2.0 L Triumph 6-cylinder engine, although the engine in the Fury received the sump from the Triumph Vitesse and the intake manifold from the GT6. [8] With bore × stroke dimensions of 74.7 mm × 76 mm (2.941 in × 2.992 in), this overhead valve engine displaces 1,998 cc (121.9 cu in).
In September 1966, Triumph upgraded the engine to 1998cc, in line with the new Triumph GT6 coupé, and relaunched the Vitesse as the Vitesse 2-Litre. [4] Power was increased to 95 bhp (71 kW), endowing the new car with a claimed 0–60 mph time of just under 12 seconds, and lifting top speed to 104 mph (167 km/h).
The Triumph Herald is a small two-door car introduced by Standard-Triumph of Coventry in 1959 and made through to 1971. The body design was by the Italian stylist Giovanni Michelotti , and the car was offered in saloon , convertible , coupé , estate and van models, with the latter marketed as the Triumph Courier .
These "rubber doughnut" couplings were widely used at the time for road vehicles (e.g. Hillman Imp, Triumph GT6) and racing (e.g. Ford GT40, Lotus 21), prior to the availability of constant velocity (CV) joints. In the case of the Elan, which had exceptionally supple rear suspension that allowed significant vertical wheel travel, the ...
It was powered by the same, mildly tuned (63 bhp, later increased to 67 bhp), 1147 cc Standard SC engine used in the Triumph Spitfire. The engine was switched to the 75 bhp (56 kW) 1296 cc version in April 1967, just one month after the Spitfire itself had undergone the same upgrade, [ 3 ] the revised model being identified as the GT4S 1300 . [ 4 ]
The original Triumph Bonneville was a 650 cc parallel-twin motorcycle manufactured by Triumph Engineering and later by Norton Villiers Triumph between 1959 and 1974. It was based on the company's Triumph Tiger T110 and was fitted with the Tiger's optional twin 1 3/16 in Amal monobloc carburettors as standard, along with that model's high-performance inlet camshaft.
The Dolomite was the final addition to Triumph's small-car range (codenamed "Project Ajax"), which had started in 1965 with the Triumph 1300.Designed to be a replacement for the rear-wheel drive Triumph Herald, [1] the 1300 was originally fitted with a 1,296 cc (79 cu in) engine and front-wheel drive.