Trident

Trident grew out of an abandoned TVR project: Bill Last bought the rights to a Fissore-built design shown at Geneva in 1965 and built the Trident Clipper and Venturer in Suffolk. About 130 cars were made before the company became insolvent in 1977.

In 1962 TVR commissioned designer Trevor Fiore to style a new body for its Griffith, and the car was shown by the Italian coachbuilder Fissore as the Trident at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1965. When TVR’s company collapsed, the project was abandoned, and TVR dealer Bill Last bought the design rights and tooling to build it himself.

Trident built its cars first at Woodbridge and then at Ipswich in Suffolk. The V8-engined Clipper was followed by the Venturer, with a Ford V6, and the Tycoon, with a Triumph six-cylinder engine, but production was always tiny: around 130 cars were made between 1967 and 1977, when the company became insolvent.

The name was revived in 1999 by a new company at Fakenham in Norfolk, which showed the Iceni sports car prototype in 2000, but it did not reach series production.

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Where they were built

Woodbridge, Suffolk, England (from 1966) First Trident works Suffolk then and now on GhostViewer
Ipswich, Suffolk, England (until 1974) Later Trident works Ipswich then and now on GhostViewer

Notable for

The Trident Clipper began life as a proposed TVR, and its Fiore-designed body is one of the most elegant shapes of any small-volume British car of the 1960s.

Sources

Wikipedia (Trident Cars)

Discontinued 1965 – 1977 Sports & Specialist

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