I'm going senile. Car ID please

Somewhere under there is an earlyish GT6, straight-six powered Spitfire coupe.

Cheers. It looked Spitfireish but not quite right. Long time since I've seen a GT6.

Tim

Agreed on both counts.

Yesterday, Antiques Road Trip had a soft-top GT6, which I didn't think existed. Did somebody just unbolt the roof?

No, they put a straight six into a Spitfire...

Something that I had always thought a logical move, and really the basic idea of the closed GT6 in essence, but I didn't know that they had actually done it. Were many produced, do you know?

I had a Spitfire engine and O/D gearbox in my Herald 13/60, but that wasn't quite the same!

Pretty sure the Spitfire is only a four cylinder soft top.

And the GT6 the 6 cylinder fastback - although sharing some bits with the Spitfire.

So rather like Herald and Vitesse.

The one in the pic has been jazzed up - perhaps to look like a competition version. Might actually be one, of course, or just an attempt to look like one.

Yep. I think the GT6 was planned to be just a Spitfire coupe, but when they test-drove the prototypes, they found the extra weight made it too slow.

By Triumph? None. Since then? Probably quite a few...

And some tasteless transfers which ruins the appearance. ;-)

Well it is taking part in the modern Monte Carlo rally so I guess it's excused a few transfers. ;-)

Tim

This sort of thing...

Yep, that's what I read on the Wikipedia page, and it makes sense. And there I was briefly thinking that there were some real GT6 soft-tops around, made by Triumph.

But it wouldn't be a GT with a soft top?

The Rally was more exciting when the Mini was winning it. :-)

My dad entered in a MK2 Consul in the late 50s or very early 60s

What's in a name? Besides, that's what the TV programme called it. It should really be a Spitfire 6, though. Whatever, Triumph didn't make it, which is a shame.

Quite a lot. GT stands for Gran Turismo which is a particular body style.

You believe everything you see on TV? ;-)

Yes.

Might have embarrassed the TR performance wise due to being lighter?

True. It would have been the closest to describing it, though.

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Hmmm. Interesting thought. Maybe we need to find one of the existing ones and find out.

Great. I remember reading a book by Sidney Allard about the Monte Carlo