This is a photograph that I took just outside the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.
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It's a 1955 Swallow Doretti and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,991cc Triumph engine. The Swallow Doretti was built by the Swallow Coachbuilding Co (then owned by the Tube
Investments Group) between 1954 and 1955 using mechanicals from the Triumph
TR2. Production of the car stopped after only 10 months, apparently because Jaguar,
a major customer of the TI Group, were so worried about the effect on sales of
their XK120 that they threatened to look elsewhere for a supplier of their
components if manufacture of the Swallow Doretti continued. The DVLA record says that VVT497 currently has a SORN.
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