Historically Speaking THE
historically speaking THE Triumph Fury Prototype (1963) CONNECTION PHoto SOURCE: BRIAN SNELSON ITALIANTHE ACHIEVEMENTS OF MAESTRO MICHELOTTI by Terence McKillen Although the automobile industry has employed countless millions of people and thousands of car models have been optional ‘Surrey’ made over the last century or so, it is inter- or ‘Targa’ top, the esting to contemplate that only a handful latter often assumed as a of people may have had a really significant Porsche invention from influence on the fate of the business. The 1966, but in reality a Mi- single most important attribute in the auto chelotti concept from five business is probably that of design and years earlier. asthetics. At the end of the day, perhaps Almost all of Triumph’s 1960s and 1970s only a few dozen individuals have actually some point offerings can be credited to Michelotti’s shaped the destiny of car design. One such Giovanni ‘Micho’ Michelotti. Webster com- designs, including the Herald introduced individual was Giovanni Michelotti. PHoto SOURCE: WWW.INFLUX.co.UK/WORDPRESS/TAG/MICHElottI mented that they were in 1959, the Vitesse, Spitfire, GT6, TR4, In a December 1978 speech delivered wasting their time so why TR5/250, 2000, 2500, 1300, 1500, Stag, To- in Rome at a conference organized by the Born in Turin in 1921, the son of a coach- ensured that a new didn’t Michelotti just start afresh ledo and Dolomite. The only Triumphs after Italian Order of Architects, Michelotti stat- builder, Michelotti is arguably one of the generation of Triumph with a clean sheet of paper.
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