Saturday, February 21, 2009

ROYAL ANTIQUE 1965 Ogle Triplex GTS


An obvious precursor to the fashionable if flawed Reliant Scimitar GTE, the Triplex GTS advanced the use of glass in automotive aerodynamics and pioneered the concept of the sports estate.
Oil billionaire Nubar Gulbenkian offered Ogle a blank cheque for it, Lord Snowden was photographed climbing into it, and when Prince Philip let it be known that he'd find the so-called Glazing Test Special a good daily driver, arrangements were made for him to borrow it for the next two years. Clearly his daughter was impressed too, and given a Scimitar for her 20th birthday she was later apprehended for proceeding with undue haste.

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