Car Guy Magazine Car Guy Magazine Issue 1114 | Page 20

From the moment Dallas car collector John Ridings Lee first laid his eyes
on the Triumph Dolomite 8 C2600GS, he knew he would have to own it.
“I knew that if it ran like it looked, it would be a cross between a Grand
Prix car and a class B dragster,” Lee says. “In short, it is both.”
In the two decades since Lee purchased the car, the striking 1934 roadster
has won numerous awards and also has made appearances at the Rodeo Drive
Concours and the Pebble Beach Concours, where it drove off with Best in
Class honors. Last year, it took home the Road & Track award at The Quail
Concours. Those winning ways add to an already lengthy and colorful history,
one that began when successful racecar driver and engineer Donald Healey
moved from the racetrack to the inside track at Triumph.

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