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Triumph TR4 White 1/18 scale diecast by Jadi
Opening doors, trunk, and hood with engine detail. Overall, a higher quality diecast. Limited quantities will be available.
In 1952, the Standard Triumph company of Coventry under the then director Sir John Black, showed their first sports car, the prototype 2OTS, at the Earls Court Motor Show in London. Series production of a modified design with improved technology began in 1953. The car, from then on known as the TR2, sold successfully. The sportiness and reliability of the new product was underpinned by numerous successes in races and rallies. This was followed in 1956 by the almost identical TR3, in 1958 after a face-lift, by the TR3A and then from 1961 onwards by the technically improved TR3B. The Triumph TR4 was exhibited in September 1961 as the successor to the cramped but sporty TR3A. It represented an attempt to leave the competition trailing behind by means of a readiness to innovate that was out of the ordinary. The external appearance of the TR4 alone indicated that it was not simply a further development of its predecessors. The Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti styled a new metal body shell to fit over the widened chassis of the previous model, deliberately using new design concepts that were sometimes unfamiliar in those days. These included the characteristic hump on the bonnet to make room for the carburettor. This combination of tried and tested technology with a modern body that expressed the spirit of the times, enjoyed a runaway marketing success for Triumph from the outset. By January 1965, 40,254 units had been sold. Its four-cylinder in-line engine developed 100 bhp. tr-4, tr4a, tr-4a
