My father had one of these in the mid-70's and it was a great little car. Between 1974-78 I was on an RAF University Cadetship and spent a couple of weeks visiting RAF Valley very early in the new year of 1977. My father lent me the car so that I could drive from Bridgend up to Anglesey. Even wearing a heavy duffel coat and gloves, a car with no heater was quite an endurance test over the 6+ hrs it took to drive up the coast road through Aberystwyth, etc.
The Eight was a cut down model that was meant to compete with the A30 and Morris Minor . Standard Triumph was saved from bankruptcy in 1960 by Leyland Motors , the remaining Standard models were scrapped by 1963 , the Ensign being the last , a four cylinder larger saloon that tried to compete with Ford's Consul and BMCs Austin A60 . Despite successful sport's models , the Herald and Triumph 2000 the company never had the impact on the market that was expected and it became another badge name inside BL . The out of date 60s models faded away during the seventies despite being given new names like Toledo , the Stag struggled and the TR7 was not particularly liked , and eventually a Honda designed vehicle carried the last Triumph badge.
standard cars of uk ; "standard" was the actual brand-name,like "austin" or "ford" ; standard was a major player up to the middle 1950's,or so ; the company's post-war cars under the standard name somehow never really set the sales-charts on fire ; by the early 1960's,that brand-name had been dropped altogether ; but the actual company stayed in business for several decades more,using the brand-name of "triumph" ; the standard 8 shown here was very,VERY basic - a very cheap,standard standard .
My father had one of these in the mid-70's and it was a great little car. Between 1974-78 I was on an RAF University Cadetship and spent a couple of weeks visiting RAF Valley very early in the new year of 1977. My father lent me the car so that I could drive from Bridgend up to Anglesey. Even wearing a heavy duffel coat and gloves, a car with no heater was quite an endurance test over the 6+ hrs it took to drive up the coast road through Aberystwyth, etc.
Lovely footage. Thanks for sourcing and posting.
My first car in the late 80s. It had been manufactured in Coventry in 1954 but assembled in Australia and had a kangaroo on the bonnet. Lots of fun.
This type of car was looked upon as a very basic and cheap model, yet with a shapely bodywork.
The Eight was a cut down model that was meant to compete with the A30 and Morris Minor . Standard Triumph was saved from bankruptcy in 1960 by Leyland Motors , the remaining Standard models were scrapped by 1963 , the Ensign being the last , a four cylinder larger saloon that tried to compete with Ford's Consul and BMCs Austin A60 . Despite successful sport's models , the Herald and Triumph 2000 the company never had the impact on the market that was expected and it became another badge name inside BL . The out of date 60s models faded away during the seventies despite being given new names like Toledo , the Stag struggled and the TR7 was not particularly liked , and eventually a Honda designed vehicle carried the last Triumph badge.
The car without a boot lid. Looks like a bigger a30.
Buy the big house, keep the small car, very smart... very smart.
standard cars of uk ; "standard" was the actual brand-name,like "austin" or "ford" ; standard was a major player up to the middle 1950's,or so ; the company's post-war cars under the standard name somehow never really set the sales-charts on fire ; by the early 1960's,that brand-name had been dropped altogether ; but the actual company stayed in business for several decades more,using the brand-name of "triumph" ; the standard 8 shown here was very,VERY basic - a very cheap,standard standard .
The most bland boring car ever made
Fun to drive though