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Triumph Vitesse

In the February 2021 issue we pictured a Vitesse with the registration number 5VC, of which the late Graham Robson said: '5VC on a Vitesse was a lash-up. The number had already appeared in its proper place on a TR4 on the Tulip Rally of 1962, before the Vitesse was announced... For the sake of that new-model launch, some lackey chose three numbers (3VC, 4VC and 5VC) at random whose plates were already sitting, unused, in a corner of his office.' This image shows the car that was loaned the

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