Without Frisky, what would the TR4 look like?
Iwas delighted to see several of my favourite cars in Nick Larkin’s 10 NEC Show
Stoppers ( CCW, 14 November), including the Meadows Frisky, which was an early design by the well-known Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti.
In the article it was appropriately placed opposite the Standard Atlas from the Standard Motor Club stand. While the Atlas was not a Michelotti design as far as I’m aware (although it looks as if it should have been), it was however the Meadows family who introduced Michelotti to the Standard Motor Company, according to what I was once told by John Meadows, who was the grandson of the family member responsible for the Frisky.
The rest, as they say, is history, with Michelotti having gone on to restyle the Standard Vanguard as the Vignale and Luxury Six and then having been responsible for almost every Standard Triumph model thereafter from the Herald, Spitfire and TR4 to the 2000, Dolomite and Stag. One can only wonder what would have happened to Standard Triumph had Meadows’ introduction not taken place. The classic car world would certainly have been a much poorer place.
Peter Lockley, chairman, Standard Motor Club