Dove conversion

[alpine_64]

Not stricktly harrington.. but interesting:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TRIUMPH-TR4-D...ryZ29760QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

there is also what apears a rapier project in the background of the 2nd pic

 

[AlpineIan]

That would be a hell of a car to own. Not many of those around. The Triumph Club has a Dove registry and the keeper lives in Lexington, Kentucky. I've talked with him before and I believe he owns 2 of them. He was going to meet me at the Dayton Brit Car Day, but didn't show up. Look at the design... has Harrington written all over it.

 

[65beam]

harrington dove

one of these showed up at the show in pittsburgh a few years ago. he was unloading a few trailers up from us and i took a long look at it . really neat having two harrington conversions of different marques at the same show!

 

[alpine_64]

In one of the brit mags 2 months ago they had a S3 alger harrington and a dove 4gtr that had been tr5'd.. interesting hybrids.. there is a lot to be said for these conversions. I have to be honest and say i have never really liked the Sunbeam Harrington LM's (to much body work over the rear arches) but i do like the A, C and D type coversions.. and the dove conversion is really nice too. But the A type H is the bees kness to me... When Ians came up for sale a year ago I though about that instead of the Tiger... and that was before he had done all the work that has been done since!!

 

[Harrington Jan]

Hi,
Please let me correct a few things concerning the posts of Alpine_64.
1. “S3 alger Harringtonâ€. It’s not an alger, it’s a true Harrington Series D with a V8.
2. “dove 4gtrâ€. The correct name is Dove’ GTR4 or 4A
3. “ Not stricktly Harrington, but interesting†It is a Harrington conversion as much as the Alpine conversions
4. Which are called Series C and D. No A or B exist. Once and for all. End of discussion!
More to say is that the Dove’ were made in approx. 50-60 copies, just less than five TR4A were converted and no TR5’s or 250’s.

 

[AlpineIan]

Jan is actually very correct here. The terms Type A, Type B etc, were never really used. They were Harrington Alpine, LeMans, Series 'C' and Series 'D'.

 

[alpine_64]

Hi,
Please let me correct a few things concerning the posts of Alpine_64.
1. “S3 alger Harringtonâ€. It’s not an alger, it’s a true Harrington Series D with a V8.
2. “dove 4gtrâ€. The correct name is Dove’ GTR4 or 4A
3. “ Not stricktly Harrington, but interesting†It is a Harrington conversion as much as the Alpine conversions
4. Which are called Series C and D. No A or B exist. Once and for all. End of discussion!
More to say is that the Dove’ were made in approx. 50-60 copies, just less than five TR4A were converted and no TR5’s or 250’s.

jan, i'm glad that you are on the ball about the correctness, however:

1. The car in the article is an Alger.. its an alpine that has been converted to a tiger.. doesnt matter if it was an original harrigton car or not.. the car now runs tiger motor, suspension, tunnel box rear etc.. i was not questioning its harrington history.. just saying it was not a tiger.

2. Sorry i got the doves model name wrong.. (my bad)

3. I was saying “ Not stricktly Harrington, but interesting†as this is a section for harrington sunbeams (i assume) and i was pointing out that i know its not a sunbeam or technicaly a harrington conversion as it was done after they were bought out but has close links, just didnt want people saying its not sunbeam or harrington.

4. I did say "A type harrington" when you are right its just a "harrington" but I did not say "B type"

I'm happy to be corrected.. (re points 2 and 4) but please correct what i said.

 

[AlpineIan]

Now I said my A.B.C's... Oh sorry, I couldn't resist.

FYI: Dove' is pronounced like Dovay and not like the bird.