The X1/9's greatest advantage, and crowning glory, is its targa top. Snapped in place, it provides coupe-like quiet. ... 1980 Triumph Spitfire 150 53-hp inline-4, 4-speed manual, ...

Like the early Sprite, the original “Spitfire 4” (later retconned into the moniker “MK I”) was a very basic car with an erector set top whose frame you had to assemble, and rubber floor ...

The Triumph Spitfire was launched in 1962, and aimed to compete with the Austin-Healey Sprite, but in the same year another rival also surfaced – the MGB. Thanks to its separate-chassis ...

The 1960s Triumph TR4 had a similar-looking roof and, had that car been as big a hit as the 911, the targa top would now have been known by Triumph’s label: the Surrey top.