Vehicle Description
1971 Triumph Stag MK1 Convertible The Triumph Stag is a 2+2 sports
tourer sold between 1970 and 1978 by the British Triumph Motor
Company, styled by Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti Envisioned
as a luxury sports car, the Stag was designed to compete directly
with the Mercedes-Benz SL class models. All Stags were four-seater
convertible coup�s, but for structural rigidity - and to meet
proposed American rollover standards of the time - the Stag
required a B-pillar 'roll bar' hoop connected to the windscreen
frame by a T-bar. A body color removable hard top with defrost
wires on the rear window, full headliner and lever operated quarter
windows 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 1963-64 pre-production 2000
saloon, also styled by Giovanni Michelotti. His agreement was, if
Harry Webster, Director of Engineering at Triumph. liked the
design, Triumph could use the prototype as the basis of a new
model. Webster loved the design and took the prototype back to
England. The end result, a two-door drop head (convertible), had
little in common with the styling of its progenitor 2000, but
retained the suspension and drive line. Triumph liked the
Michelotti design so much that they propagated the styling lines of
the Stag into the new T2000/T2500 saloon and estate model lines of
the 1970s. Perhaps thanks to the Stag engine's reputation for
unreliability, only 25,877 cars were produced between 1970 and
1977. Of this number, 6,780 were export models, of which 2,871 went
to the United States Please Note The Following **Vehicle Location
is at our clients home and Not In Cadillac, Michigan. **We do have
a showroom with about 25 cars that is by appointment only **Please
Call First and talk to one of our reps at 231-468-2809 EXT 1 **
