Britain’s Triumph cemented its place in U.S. sports car history with a series of unforgettable cars — the bulldog TRs, the cheap and cheerful Spitfire, and the affordable six-cylinder GT, the GT6 among them. And so it may come as a surprise to find a conservatively styled sedan like the Town and Country, later renamed the Renown, in the family tree.
If it weren’t for the rivalry between Sir John Black, the head of Standard Motor Company, and his counterpart at SS Jaguar, William