On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Bill and Sal Birney wrote:
> I would say that a lot of these things were introduced when Triumph needed
> them, and then written up much later. I have seen a couple of MKIII
> Spitfires out of the states with the later style dash (I, and everyone else
> over here, assume that the factory ran out of LHD dashes before thay ran
> out of LHD MKIII's to build).
Actually, you should see just about all 1969 and later Mk. 3 Spitfires
destined for the U.S. sporting these dashboards. That's when we got 'em!
--Andy
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