TRIUMPH ITALIA 2000 Coupé (1959-1963)

[dinkel]

http://www.trregistry.com/start/registry/html/TR20...

Post your snappies of the silver one James

[a8hex]

Now that is rather nice

[dinkel]

Thought so too. Body looks so very nice. I'm not too keen on the 2 - 2.2 but stylingwise there's not much wrong on this car.

[Mighty Flex]

Saw the one at Bristol Italian auto show. what a lovely car.

[Forthright MC]

dinkel said:

http://www.trregistry.com/start/registry/html/TR20...

Post your snappies of the silver one James

With pleasure A!







Car was also in attendance at the Beds Classic Show on bank holiday monday. It's absolutely stunning, so well proportioned

[racingsnake]

FFS they are sitting on it!

[Forthright MC]

racingsnake said:

FFS they are sitting on it!

It's alright, they were the owners!...

[85Carrera]

Not seen one of those before. That is rather nice. I presume there are not many around.

[dinkel]

85Carrera said:

Not seen one of those before. That is rather nice. I presume there are not many around.

Article says:
"Our feature 1960 Italia 2000 was the 58th one built, as evidenced by a small hand stamped metal tag atop the radiator support."

[Mighty Flex]

wikipedia says 329 built, most of which stayed in Italy

[Triumph Man]

Quite a contrast that the manufacturer who made this wonderful car ended up making the Acclaim...

[//j17]

Triumph Man said:

Quite a contrast that the manufacturer who made this wonderful car ended up making the Acclaim...

Triumph didn't make the Italia, the Italian coach builders Vignale did.

Anyway, by most measures the Acclaim was the best car Triumph ever made!

[dinkel]

Wasn't that a badged Honda?

[//j17]

dinkel said:

Wasn't that a badged Honda?

Yes, but build with British steel and a splash of under seal*. As a result it wasn't just a reskin of 1960's chassis with an engine designed in the 1950's as the Dolomite 1500SE it replaced.

• In fairness by the early 80's the Japanese has started rustproofing non-JDM cars and loosing their 70's reputation for rust).

[Triumph Man]

//j17 said:

Triumph Man said:

Quite a contrast that the manufacturer who made this wonderful car ended up making the Acclaim...

Triumph didn't make the Italia, the Italian coach builders Vignale did.

Anyway, by most measures the Acclaim was the best car Triumph ever made!

Yeah quite right, it was Vignale. Bit of a faux pas on my part there...

In my opinion, the Acclaim might have been a 'good car', but it wasn't a 'good Triumph'. Sure, Triumphs may have had problems in the past, but they had personality. Sorry for kind of hi-jacking this thread on a lovely Triumph/Vignale product with some Acclaim bashing, I'll shut up now...

[Triumph Man]

I once saw an Italia 2000 for sale on carandclassic.co.uk. I'm not sure how genuine it was as there was no description and one photograph that appeared to have been taken in a studio. Then copied from Google... Still, given a lottery win, definately in the fantasy garage!

[Hooli]

That's totally gorgeous!