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Station Road Kirton Lindsey Gainsborough

DN21 4BD

1972 Triumph GT6 SOLD

ClassicClassics are pleased to be able to offer this lovely Triumph TR6 for sale at our Kirton Lindsey showroom.
This GT6 has recently undergone a program of re commissioning by its previous owner who bought the car after being off the road for a number of years. He then set about bringing it to the standard you can see today, we have a number of invoices totalling over £2000 in parts alone. These include invoices for various suspension arms and bushes, a Rotoflex CV joint conversion kit and various other engine parts. All the brakes have been stripped and replaced as necessary with new rear drums and front disc’s and calliper’s and brake lines. As a result the car drives and handles very well indeed and feels very planted on the road. The GT6 has also been treated to a fresh re paint making this car look fantastic. The car sits on freshly powder coated steel wheels with new centre caps and wheel nuts and are wrapped in new Uniroyal tyres. Inside is just as good as well, with no major signs of wear to the seats, and also benefitting from a new carpet set.
This Triumph GT6 is ready to be enjoyed by its next owner and admired by everyone else.
In early 1963 Giovanni Michelotti was commissioned by Standard-Triumph to design a GT version of their recently introduced Spitfire 4 (also designed by Michelotti).[1] An unmodified Spitfire 4 was delivered to Michelotti's design studios in Italy and late in 1963 the prototype Spitfire GT4 was returned to England for evaluation. The styling of the vehicle was a success but the extra weight of the GT bodyshell resulted in extremely poor performance from the Spitfire's 1, 147 cc (70 cu in) Standard SC engine, and plans for producing the Spitfire GT4 were shelved.
Michelotti's fastback design for the Spitfire GT4 prototype was adopted by the Triumph racing programme for the 1964 season, as it was deemed to provide an aerodynamic benefit over the standard Spitfire body shape. Fibreglass copies of the Spitfire GT4's fastback were grafted on to the race-modified Spitfires destined for competition. The Spitfire racing programme was successful,[1] and in 1965 resulted in 13th overall and a 1st in class at the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans (beating their main rivals, the MG Midgets). The Spitfire's competitive success and the continuing commercial success of the production vehicle led Triumph to re-evaluate its shelved plans for a GT version of the Spitfire. To overcome the lack of performance inherent in the heavier body style the Spitfire's 4-cylinder engine was replaced with the more powerful 2. 0 L (1, 996 cc) Triumph inline 6 originally derived from the SC and then in use in the Triumph Vitesse (which shared a similar chassis with the Spitfire and Triumph Herald). The car was further developed and refined and eventually launched as the Triumph GT6 (dropping the "Spitfire" prefix) to emphasise its GT styling and its 6-cylinder engine.
Contemporary Triumph marketing advertised the GT6 as being developed from the "race winning Le Mans Spitfires" to capitalise on their aesthetic similarities, whereas the Le Mans Spitfires and the GT6 were actually two entirely separate development programmes (the GT programme pre-dating the racing programme). However, the marketing spin was so successful that many people erroneously believed the Le Mans Spitfires to actually be GT6s.

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