>>> 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.
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>>Then the MkI came along for around 2 years-there were about
>>> 45,000made and 19,000 in U.S. sales.
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>>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.
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>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.
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>Jonmac
But, didn't they ever have the MK1 badge?
Laura G. and Nigel
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