RVC438H pre-production car?

[saffronstag]

Saw this picture on eBay '1971 TRIUMPH STAG Daily Express UK Trade Swap Card', item number 360630056141, never seen a Stag in this colour before, was it one of the pre-production cars?

Andy

[72BLUE]

It is the same car that was in the BBC4 motoring program earlier in the week, they showed a clip from the old Wheelbase show when one of the presenters drove it to France.

[DJT]

It's one of the press cars. Same registration series as the Saffron car in Diamonds Are Forever. RVC435H

http://autouniversum.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/the-cars-of-james-bond-triumph-stag/

[saffronstag]

Thanks Dave, of course though that reg pre-fix was familiar.

interestingly just looked at a 72 colour chart and it looks like colour is Wedgewood Blue, a colour only available on the saloon range and when I google RVC438H it comes up as being a Toldeo reg on the The Dolomite Forum?

http://forum.triumphdolomite.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5509

Andy

[saffronstag]

Some more googling and it comes up as a press car owned by an SOC member, is this the car that appears in the Stag DVD?

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/rupertstag/historypress.htm

[davidf]

I used to have a '68 Mk III Spit in Wedgewood Blue - that is certainly the colour in the picture, which ties in with the rupertstag web-site info.

[Bob Heritage]

That might be Dave Jell's car

[stagx790]

RVC428H or LD17BW is an old press car that was used at launch in Belgium and still exists and undergoing restoration. It was indeed Wedgewood blue. Triumph Toledos were also reg in the RVC-H series and launched also in Belgium at the same time.