{"id":29171,"date":"2012-11-23T13:40:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=29171"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:31:36","slug":"triumph-2500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/triumph-2500\/","title":{"rendered":"Triumph 2500"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Friday it’s a bit of a leftfield car crush and a street spot combined. Stumbling upon this crisp yellow Triumph 2500 we anchored up and nearly caused a serious RTA: but we, think, it was worth it.<\/p>\n

We love this Michelotti<\/a>-drawn design. it couldn’t get more three boxy if you conflated a Rubik’s Cube and two packets of cornflakes. And whoever the proud owner is of this fine example has kept \u2013 or restored \u2013 the car to a lovely state.<\/p>\n

My old best friend owned one of these behemoths – in Royal Blue, when we were stupid seventeen year-olds. And be damned if we didn’t play Sweeney screeching round the streets of East London in it – particularly that wide, sweeper onramp to the A12 in Hackney Wick. I can’t traverse that corner to this day without recalling how the Triumph’s rear stepped out with a subtle screech every time you pushed 35MPH.<\/p>\n

This is what we call an everyman classic.<\/p>\n\n\t\t