The Courier – The Official Monthly Magazine of the Triumph Sports Six Club – Vol 20, No 236, February 2000. Spitfire 6 cover. Herald, Spitfire, Vitesse, GT6 – Valve Hardness Test
The Courier – The Official Monthly Magazine of the Triumph Sports Six Club – Vol 20, No 236, February 2000. Spitfire 6 cover. Herald, Spitfire, Vitesse, GT6 – Valve Hardness Test
The Courier, Vol. 20, No. 236, February 2000 (cover price £2.25, free to club members) – the official monthly magazine of the Triumph Sports Six Club, for owners and enthusiasts of the Triumph Herald, Spitfire, Vitesse and GT6. The cover shows a photograph of a six-cylinder 'Spitfire 6' at the Cholmondeley show. Contents: Events Calendar; Comment; News Review; Cop Shop; Specials Register; Vitesse Register; Bond Register; Herald 948/1200 Register; Concours Car of Show; 13/60 Register; Talking Technical; Spitfire I/II/III Register; Race News; Tech Tip Fuel Pipes; Spitfire IV/1500 Register; Olives Vacation; Readers Write; Readers Restoration – Vitesse; Valve Hardness Test; International Liaison Secretary; Tommy the Triumph; TSSC Officers. The Courier is the official monthly magazine of the Triumph Sports Six Club (TSSC), published from the club's headquarters at Lubenham, near Market Harborough, Leicestershire, and edited by Bernard Robinson. Each issue combines club news and events with the model registers – Herald, Vitesse, Spitfire, GT6, Bond Equipe and the specials built on Triumph running gear – and restoration, technical and touring articles written by members. The club caters for the small-chassis Triumphs – Herald (948, 1200, 12/50 and 13/60), Vitesse (Six, 2-Litre and Mk2), Spitfire (MkI to 1500) and GT6 (MkI to MkIII) – and for the Bond Equipe and other cars built on their mechanicals. This issue belongs to Volume 20 of The Courier, which closed with No. 240 (June 2000); 2000 was also the year leaded four-star petrol was withdrawn from general sale in the UK. 84 pages including covers, 15 x 21 cm, illustrated throughout, with a full-colour cover. THEMES: Triumph Sports Six Club, six-cylinder Spitfire conversion, valve hardness and unleaded fuel, fuel pipes, Vitesse restoration, concours, Herald 13/60, Cholmondeley Castle show.
Author: Bernard Robinson (ed.)
Publisher: Triumph Sports Six Club
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Single Issue Magazine
Condition: Used - Very Good