Oh, and thanks for posting the link. It is a cute little car -- definitely a
different take on the TR shape. The name "Doretti" makes it sound like it
had some kind of Italian connection, but it is just pidgin-Italian for
"Dorothy"... The car was named after her.
on 8/5/08 5:31 PM, Aeseeyou@aol.com at Aeseeyou@aol.com wrote:
> Max...
> I thought it looked sort of funny (the spelling that is...) Also I hope
> nobody thinks I meant to say it looks like an "Austin-Healey TR4 AC Ace"
> Actually the Swallow Coachbuilding Company were a pretty active little
> concern in the 1930's and 40's...An American named Arthur Anderson and his
> daughter the beautiful California Blond by the name of Dorothy Deen (who
> passed away
> just recently) flew over to England and Dorothy Deen and Arthur Anderson
> made contacts and met a fellow named Frank Rainbow who'd recently designed a
> svelte body that he wanted to see produced into a sports car along the lines
> of
> the Jaguar XK120...Along the way they contacted Triumph Standard and made a
> deal to market the entire Triumph -Standard motorcar line in the US..If they
> could also sell their little dream car The Swallow-Dorretti.
> Alas after seeing that the Swallow Dorretti could cause them to lose
> potential customers in the USA, Jaguar who had a contract with
> Swallow-Doretti told
> the little Coach Builder that if they didn't stop building the neat
> Swallow-Dorretti bodies for Anderson and Dorothy Deen....Well, lets say
> Jaguar was
> apt to put the coach builder out of business and for sure they would stop
> doing
> any business with Swallow Coachworks, et al! Needless to say production
> stopped immediately....The Bodies that hadn't been mated to engines and drive
> trains were sold to Monks Garage at Monksplath...See more about this anomaly
> of
> the early 1950's by going to. _http://www.doretti.co.uk/_
> (http://www.doretti.co.uk/)
> Albert Escalante CCBCC=Left Coast
>
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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