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When you say you can sit on your rear deck you certainlty
have to place yourself on the support bar that runs across
the wheel arches. If you sat on the side of the tire you
would fall right through. Well I would but I am using some
type 1/8" plywood. I'm not sure what it is I found it in
the garage. What a pain to cut out a pattern for that
thing without a previous rear deck or carpet.
Well as far as the dash goes, it is hard to tell. The
picture is from the passenger seat so it is a side shot of
half the dash. But I didn't think that the GT6's ever had
a black dash. The wood dash was there to give the GT6 a
more refined look over the Spitfire. Did the GT6 ever have
a round shift knob?
Tom
> > One
> >pic has a woman sitting on the rear deck of a car!
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> I assume you mean with the rear hatch open and sitting on
the parcel or
> luggage area. I could certainly sit on this and have.
It's much thicker
> (at least twice or three times as thick) as the panels
used on the doors
> and would have no problem holding more than 120 lbs of
person as I weigh
> slightly more (ahem). The original one on mine was
pretty ratty, and when
> I re-manufactured mine I took door panel material and
laminated several
> pieced together to get the stock thickness and used a
saber saw to cut it out.
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> >did spitfires have vinyl covered dashes at one
> >time?
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> The 72 Spitfire, while not vinyl covered, did have a
matte plastic, moulded
> dash, not unlike the GT6, without the eyeball vents due
to impending US
> reg,s at the time concerning reflective surfaces in the
cockpit - and I
> wouldn't swear to it (don't have my reference material,
and memory isn't
> what it used to be), but I would imagine the GT6 also
carried this
> configuration. Also In 73 they went to the wooden,
albeit matte finish.
> So it may indeed be a GT6 of 72 vintage - you didn't say
which year-look
> for the eyeball vents.
>
> Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
>
> 72 V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
> 70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
> 70 Spitfire (project)
> 73 Ford Courier (parts hauler, rain vehicle, getting a V6
soon!)
>
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