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Re: New Spitfire webpages

To: "Laura G." <savercool@email.msn.com>, <Growe58@aol.com>,
Subject: Re: New Spitfire webpages
From: "Edward W. Hamilton" <hamilton@ptd.net>
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 22:35:53 -0400
I've had an '80 and now a '79.  Both of which had chrome bonnet latches.

Ed Hamilton
-----Original Message-----
From: Laura G. <savercool@email.msn.com>
To: Growe58@aol.com <Growe58@aol.com>; spitfires@autox.team.net
<spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, May 16, 1999 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: New Spitfire webpages


>
>>I noticed that the bonnet catches on the '80 Spits were painted body
color.
>>Was
>>this a late factory change or just part of the advertising?  Anyone know?
>>
>>-Greg
>
>
>In my handy dandy spitfire book by Michael Cook, all it says is that the 79
>and into 80 model years carried "virtually no chrome trim at all."
>
>I really haven't seen many '80s (or '79s) . I do seem to vaguely remember
>seeing a spit once that had bonnet catches painted the same colour as the
>body.
>
>Laura G. and Nigel
>>
>>In a message dated 5/14/99 11:04:38 PM EST, savercool@email.msn.com
writes:
>>>
>>>  Thumbs up!
>>>
>>>  Great site-beautiful car!
>>>
>>>  Laura G. and Nigel
>>>  -----Original Message-----
>>>  From: Eric Kieboom <ekieboom@xs4all.nl>
>>>  To: spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>
>>>  Date: Friday, May 14, 1999 11:24 AM
>>>  Subject: New Spitfire webpages
>>>
>>>
>>>  >
>>>  >
>>>  >[drum roll]
>>>  >
>>>  >Ladies and gentlemen!
>>>  >
>>>  >After having been locked up in a room for some weeks with just a
>computer,
>>>  >a scanner, notepad.exe, and a good book on HTML, I have the
>immeasurable
>>>  >pleasure to announce to you my * N E W * webpages dedicated to the
>Triumph
>>>  >Spitfire.
>>>  >
>>>  >There's the usual blah-blah about my own car, how and why I got it,
why
>>>  >it's so great, etc.
>>>  >
>>>  >But I think I have something that so far nobody else has:
>>>  >
>>>  >          Original Triumph Spitfire Brochures
>>>  >
>>>  >So far, I have a 1974 and a 1980 UK brochure, scanned in hi-res B&W
and
>>>  >colour.
>>>  >
>>>  >And an extra special bonus page:
>>>  >
>>>  >              How To Read Your Spark Plugs
>>>  >          (courtesy of Champion spark plugs ;-)
>>>  >
>>>  >You, the subscribers to this list, are the first to be informed about
>>these
>>>  >pages. So please, whenever you have the time, point your browsers to
>the
>>>  >URL mentioned below - and do not hesitate to tell me what you think.
>>>  >Criticism is *very* welcome.
>>>  >
>>>  >Thanks.
>>>  >
>>>  >--
>>>  >Eric Kieboom - The Netherlands
>>>  >1976 Spit 1500 - Original Java Green
>>>  >
>>>  >My Spitfire and Triumph Spitfire brochures:
>>>  >
>>>  >        http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekieboom/spit/spit.html
>>
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