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Swallow Doretti Minisite
A recent photo
of a Swallow Doretti at Brooklands
The Swallow Doretti is a
British sports car built by the Swallow Coachbuilding Company of
Walsall. It consists of Standard-Triumph TR3 mechanicals in a
chassis built by Tube Investments, clothed in glass fibre
bodywork. The Doretti was designed by Frank Rainbow a very competent
and experienced engineer, who had worked for many years as a senior
engineer at the Bristol Aircraft Company. It was named after Dorothy
Dean who provided a lot of the energy that made the Doretti and
Triumph sports cars a major success on the American west coast
About 290 Dorettis
were built, around one third of which survive or have been rebuilt.
As they are powered by
Standard built components, Dorettis qualify for membership of the
Standard Motor Club, but there is much more support for them in the
Swallow Doretti Register, part of the TR Register.
This Standard Motor
Club Minisite contains:
A story about NBC 742
in two parts
Part 1
Part 2
It also shows
information about the Mark II version of the Doretti
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