Everyday Modifications for Your Triumph Spitfire, Herald, Vitesse and GT6 by Iain Ayre, Paperback, 9781785001758 | Buy online at The Nile
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Everyday Modifications for Your Triumph Spitfire, Herald, Vitesse and GT6

Author: Iain Ayre  

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Features and reviews in Club Triumph, Triumph Sports Six Club and Triumph World magazines. Reviews in Classic & Sportscar, Classic Car Weekly, Practical Classics and Car Mechanics magazines.

Part of the Everyday Modifications series that are designed to guide classic van and car owners through the workshop skills needed to make their vehicles easier to use and enjoy, this book is concerned with improving the 4-cylinder Spitfire and Herald, and the 6-cylinder Vitesse and GT6, with engines ranging in size from 948cc to 1998cc.

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Features and reviews in Club Triumph, Triumph Sports Six Club and Triumph World magazines. Reviews in Classic & Sportscar, Classic Car Weekly, Practical Classics and Car Mechanics magazines.

Part of the Everyday Modifications series that are designed to guide classic van and car owners through the workshop skills needed to make their vehicles easier to use and enjoy, this book is concerned with improving the 4-cylinder Spitfire and Herald, and the 6-cylinder Vitesse and GT6, with engines ranging in size from 948cc to 1998cc.

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The books in the Everyday Modifications series are designed to guide classic van and car owners through the workshop skills needed to make their vehicles easier to use and enjoy. This book is concerned with improving the 4-cylinder Spitfire and Herald, and the 6-cylinder Vitesse and GT6, with engines ranging in size from 948cc to 1998cc. Classic car author and journalist Iain Ayre gives his hands-on advice on maintaining and modifying the Triumph Herald/Vitesse and Spitfire/GT6, covering both keeping them going and either subtly or dramatically improving them, with additional rescue options offered for Triumphs deemed economically terminal. . Advice based on decades of restoration and racing . Improvements in power, handling, comfort and safety . Period design faults isolated and dealt with . Electrics demystified, modernizing options discussed . Substantial case studies chapter with six examples . Radical - as well as mild - modification options discussed AUTHOR: Iain Ayre has owned several Heralds, Vitesses, Spitfires and a GT6 - requiring much hands-on spannering to keep them going - and even turned a written-off 2-litre Vitesse into the first six-cylinder Midge kit car. Decades of serious expertise of Triumph racing and restoration is added with technical editing by Randy Zoller of British Heritage Motorsports in El Cajon, California. SELLING POINTS: . Another new title in the very popular Everyday Modifications series - this time for Triumph Spitfire, Herald, Vitesse and GT6 owners. . Gives practical advice on improvements in power, handling, safety and comfort, as well as radical modification options. . Iain Ayre is a classic car author and journalist and has owned several Heralds, Vitesses and Spitfires. 250 Illustrations

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Iain Ayre has owned several Heralds, Vitesses, Spitfires and a GT6 - requiring much hands-on spannering to keep them going - and even turned a written-off 2-litre Vitesse into the first six-cylinder Midge kit car. Decades of serious expertise of Triumph racing and restoration is added with technical editing by Randy Zoller of British Heritage Motorsports in El Cajon, California.

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Product Details

Publisher
The Crowood Press Ltd
Published
18th August 2016
Pages
176
ISBN
9781785001758

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