Triumph Vitesse 6 1600 - Driving in Scarborough

We took the lovely 'Wedgewood Blue' 1966 Triumph Vitesse 6 1600 for a drive around the Scarborough coast.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Triumph Vitesse History
00:50 - Italian Designer, Giovanni Michelotti
01:55 - Suspension - Handling
02:42 - Driving the Triumph Vitesse
03:38 - Steering Lock - Turning Circle
05:10 - Interior
05:30 - Gearing

[paulromans]

Thanks for this. I'm in the USA and restoring a '63 Herald, but it's very nice to see a proper RHD Triumph being driven 'round the lovely English countryside, the way it was meant to be. Love the exhaust note too.

[alanculbert]

What a delightful gem. I adore Heralds and Vitesses. My dad had a B reg Herald in the late 70s. So it will always be a "dad" car to me. Surely no other car has ever had such character as these.

[colinpritchard]

I had one of these in the late 60s and though it was the early design with the "problematic" rear axle I fitted an aftermarket secondary tranverse spring that prevented tge dreaded wheel tuck and it transformed the handelling. It was a hoot to thrash down twisty B roads and could leave many sporty cars well behind. A lovely tractable 6 cyl. with a great sound.

[petercharlton]

Showing the later 13/60 Herald, would lead folk to think the Vitesse took its bonnet design from the Herald, but in actuality, it is the other way around, the later Herald 13/60 used the styling of the Vitesse's sloping bonnet to modernise the Herald. You should have shown the Herald models prior to the 13/60 to see how different the Vitesse was compared to the contemporary Heralds.

[jitendrapurohit]

My grandfather have a standard herald mark 3 in 198o we enjoyed in childhood

[michaelguerin]

Thank you. Nice video. I never really got into the detail on these cars but it is a nice upgrade of the Herald.

[whitea]

Love it, my uncle had one from new, with Overdrive. Great little car.

[dannywest]

PS while in my owner during the 70s, my car same colour had a clonk in the back axel, so my dad and I replaced the hardy spider joints in the street outside our house, and the problem was cured, happy days.

[dr.aculasdad]

Driven properly, they are very docile.
"In slow, Out fast" is the way to drive - i.e. feathered throttle into the corner, slight acceleration through, and firm out. This causes the rear to squat, and lessen the dreaded tuckunder.
I had a Renoir Blue 1962 saloon, plate number 5261MX, from early1968 to late1970, drove around England with a wife, 9yo and 3month-old daughters, then in 1970 did a 2000mile, two week tour of Europe, tent on top, bedding inside, food in the boot.
Happy Days !

[lordleonusa]

There is only one E in the name of the Triumph Colour, it is spelled Wedgwood in deference to the Pottery Company Wedgewood.

[skippmclovan]

From memory 70hp! Not bad for a light car! One could visualize the 2.5 long stroke version sitting in there, and looking visually pretty much exactly the same! I wonder if anyone has ever done that? I did have a ride once in an early GT6 into which the previous owner had installed a 2.5. There WAS a small difference in engine total height, necessitating mounting the carbs on their 'mounts inverted' by turning them (the mounts only) around 180 degrees, causing the tops of the carbs to be dropped just slightly 'tipped back and down' a little, enabling the GT6 low hood assembly to be closed with a very small free space clearance. Otherwise it was sitting on the tops of the dashpots, and not latchable like that! Whilst acceleration was not E-Type style, it WAS a nice 'torquey' ride compared to the 1998cc original engine.. : )

[NakedUndone]

My father had this car (same year, I think) but left-hand-drive and in white.

[robbey]

Thought it was an episode of Heartbeat with Oscar and Ventrass in pursuit!

[dannywest]

Had one of these same colour, my first car and cost 100 pounds, pity Greens have destroyed oldtimers market😢

[dannywest]

PS, PS, REMEMBER THOSE CROSS PLYS IN THE WET? SORRY SO MANY MEMORIES FLOODING BACK.

[davidfarmer]

He got the "iconic" word in, in the last 20 seconds.

I just thought id managed to escape it.