I think that Spitfires offer the ability for many car enthusiasts to enter
into great realms of interest with their cars. Weekend racing, autocross,
touring, or just showing some teenagers what a real sports car looks like.
Many people realize that while our wonderful cars are great and some of the
finest ever built, that they too have shortcomings. If Triumph was still
building cars today I have no doubt that the Spitfire would, at least at
some point, had a V-6. Opinions differ, but while rebuilding my car, I try
to stay whithin the spirit of what I feel the car is and should be. I
don't create a whole new car but I will modify mine. This is not herecy,
just a sports car owner enjoying his car. Spitfires are great platforms
for you to exercise some creative freedom and rebuild (build) a car that is
completely different but still deserving of the Triumph marque. I wish the
best of luck to anybody that can modify their car to make it better.
Grassroots Motorsports magazine is going extensively over putting a Mazda
rotary into a Spit, and there are many people out there that have done
conversions to v-6.
- Scurrying off the soapbox before he gets knocked off!
Patrick Bowen
'79 Spit
At 05:46 PM 8/3/98 -0500, NA Campiglia wrote:
>Hi,
>Congrats on the new addition, Im sure it will bring you years of fun.
>
><FLAME ON>
>That is if you DONT do any goofy things to it like put a V-6 in it, how
about just making it..... say a Triumph Spitfire. Not a show car, not a
strip car, just a plain ole Spitfire.......
>
>There are plenty of performance items that you can add and do to it to get
the rubber flying without going GEARHEAD NUTS on the poor thing..
>
><FLAME OFF>
>
>Anyway, good luck on whatever you plan to do with it. Im sure you will
love it all the same. Have fun
>
>Stay Cool
>
>
>
>At 04:35 PM 8/3/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Good Afternoon :)
>>
>>Just wanted to say hello, as I am a new member of your list. This past
>>Sunday, I bought a 1972 Spitfire Mk IV as a project car, and wanted to get
>>on a list where I can get information etc on common pitfalls, and the like.
>>
>>Can anyone tell me where a good place to start is? The car is in very good
>>shape for it's age, the sheetmetal is all straight with no rust-out spots,
>>some surface rust, but the engine needs to be rebuild. Plan on this
>>weekend taking about 100 polaroid pictures of everything to document how
>>the car is supposed to be put together so when the time comes to reassemble
>>it, we will have point of reference to look back on.
>>
>>I have to say I am somewhat torn, however. In the spirit of the car, I am
>>inclined to restore it back to factory condition. On the other hand, I
>>already own a show car, and have been seriously thinking about making this
>>car another show car. Does anyone have any information on engine swaps
>>for, say, small V6's?
>>
>>Hope to hear from you all soon,
>>Bob Perciaccante
>>
>>
>NA Campiglia III
>Abilene, TX
>http://camalott.com/~spitdrvr
>'67 MkIII, '74 1500, '76 1500
>Triumphs and Homebrew, what else could you want?
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