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Originally Posted by Gerard C
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A bit of Trident info.
LASTS Garage in Woodbridge , Suffolk , was a TVR dealer and bought the rights to the Trident models .
They opened a small factory in Ipswich where they built the Trident cars .
A friend of mine was an engineer there and he would often turn up at my house when he was out road testing the cars when they were finished .
As well as the 4.7 Lt V8 , there was a 7 Ltr which had a 3 speed auto box , [ why ??? ] , and a car which did the 1970 World Cup Rally , [ from memory it had an army motorsport team and did not finish .]
Very impressive acceleration but the roadholding on most cars was not that good as I believe they were built on a TRIUMPH TR chassis .
That was dragging up a few memories from 50 odd years ago .