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Solved - NEH 1490: Harrington-bodied Triumph TR2 Coupe - 1957?
« on: January 17, 2012, 07:26:32 AM »
For today's nice red car, what's this, who built it and when?

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Re: NEH 1490
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2012, 05:12:19 AM »
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Re: NEH 1490
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2012, 08:33:59 PM »
Looks like a TR3 with a dreadfull "bustleback" grafted on.
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Re: NEH 1490
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2012, 04:08:21 AM »
Quote from: mymokke on January 24, 2012, 08:33:59 PM
Looks like a TR3 with a dreadfull "bustleback" grafted on.

It sure does, and that's almost what it is.
Who was responsible for it?
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Re: NEH 1490
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2012, 10:48:44 PM »
Any relation to the TR4 "Dove"?
Just saw a site with a posting refering to a:
"3A, 1959 or 60, converted from new for a South London Standard Triumph dealer by one of the firms making estate car conversions at the time, either Abbotts of Farnham or Friary of Basingstoke".
Same car maybe?
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Re: NEH 1490
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2012, 11:22:30 PM »
Or is this one of two built in New Zealand?
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Re: NEH 1490
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2012, 06:03:20 AM »
Quote from: mymokke on January 30, 2012, 10:48:44 PM
Any relation to the TR4 "Dove"?
Just saw a site with a posting refering to a:
"3A, 1959 or 60, converted from new for a South London Standard Triumph dealer by one of the firms making estate car conversions at the time, either Abbotts of Farnham or Friary of Basingstoke".
Same car maybe?

It pre-dates the TR4-based Dove and by a number of years and is nothing to do with L.F. Dove Garages of Wimbledon, but you could say it's related...
It's not a TR3A but a TR2 and it's not by either Abbotts or Friary.

Quote from: mymokke on January 30, 2012, 11:22:30 PM
Or is this one of two built in New Zealand?

It was built in the UK.
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Re: NEH 1490
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2012, 10:35:19 AM »
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Re: NEH 1490
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2012, 12:17:52 PM »
Harrington?
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Re: NEH 1490
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2012, 01:31:38 PM »
Quote from: woodinsight on February 09, 2012, 12:17:52 PM
Harrington?

Yes!  It's a Harrington-bodied Triumph TR2 Coupe.
I said it was related to the later TR4 Doves because of course Harringtons actually built those on behalf of Dove Garages, whose concept it was.
But this TR2 had nothing to do with Dove Garages AFAIK.
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