>> Actually, the designation "Spitfire 4" was the original Spitfire-from
>> 1962-1964. There were around 22,000 made though I can't find a number on
>> U.S. sales.
>Right...that was the original designation.
>
>Then the MkI came along for around 2 years-there were about
>> 45,000made and 19,000 in U.S. sales.
>
>I may be wrong here, but I thought that the Mk1 was sort of a retroactive
>naming of the orignal Spitfire 4 because the second version was actually
>the Spitfire4 Mk2.
Right on! The original Spitfire 4 had the fine perforated radiator grille,
the Mk 2 had the horizontal bars. It was only when the Mk 2 came out that
the Spitfire 4 retroactively (and probably unofficially) became the Mk 1.
Jonmac
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