Triumph Stag

The Triumph Stag is a 22 Sports Tourer sold between 1970 and 1978 by Triumph and styled by Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti All Stags were fourseater Convertible Coupés but for structural rigidity and to meet new American rollover standards of the time the Stag required a Bpillar roll bar hoop connected to the windscreen frame by a Tbar A removable hardtop was a popular factory option for the early Stags and was later supplied as a standard fitment The car started as a styling experiment cut and shaped from a 1963–4 Triumph 2000 preproduction saloon which had also been styled by Michelotti The end result a twodoor drop head retained the suspension and drive line of the 2000 Triumph liked the Michelotti design so much that they propagated the styling lines of the Stag into the new Triumph 20002500 saloon and estate model lines of the 1970sThis 1 owner for 40 years Stag is said by the vendor to have been purchased in 2013 by a specialist restorer who has carried out a sympathetic restoration for the next owner Still wearing her original panels and needing very little more than a mechanical overhaul and refreshment of the paint this Stag had been carefully stored and has not suffered the fate of many of its siblingsThis is a very early Mk 2 example with the benefit of manualoverdrive transmission and both hard and soft tops in excellent conditionWhilst he is unable to warrant the mileage the vendor is as certain as he can be that it is genuine and the 1 owner status to 2013 does help to give credibility to this theory