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1963 Triumph Spitfire 4 
Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin: 
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◊ 2015-10-08 19:14 |
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◊ 2015-10-08 19:30 |
Early Triumph Spitfire assembled in Italy by Ducati (along with Heralds). |
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◊ 2015-10-09 22:17 |
Any more info on the Ducati assembly?? |
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◊ 2015-10-09 23:44 |
Translated by me, so it's full of grammatical errors. "Almost two decades passed before [the production] of four wheel[ed vehicles] was discussed again. At the time the company was under control of State and the then-managing director decided to start a new vehicle stimulate the production volume at Borgo Panigale factory. The partnership was stipulated with British Leyland, which commissioned to Ducati for the production of a coupè very popular at the time, the Triumph Herald. Production started around 1965. We do not know exactly how many cars were built at Ducati, but it's know that a "Ducati Meccanica" sign in italics, was applied on the trunk just below the Triumph's logo." Link to "www.ducati.it" From the Triumph Spitfire Italian Register: "The Italian importer was "Ducati Meccanica" in Bologna which provided for adapting the cars to the Italian traffic laws replacing rear lights [...], assembling side blinking lights, which weren't provided in United Kingdom, replacing amber front turn signals with white similar ones. All these details are hard to find on used spare parts market because of being produced locally for a brief time, when such cars were commercialized. Finally, on the trunk was placed the legendary metal tag “meccanica DUCATI bologna”." http://www.registrospitfire.it/i-modelli/ |
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◊ 2015-10-10 01:04 |
In UK Herald coupe stopped production in Oct 64. Does that mean Ducati got the dead UK tooling?? |
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