Tom,
Can you crawl under the trunk and see if the frame extends back under the
trunk floor pan?
Somewhere in the '74-'76 timeframe the US frames "grew" extensions back to
tie into the US spec back bumpers. I don't know if the UK spec cars
recieved the same bumper reinforcements or if Triumph bothered to build two
different frames (North American and rest of world) during the '70s.
Right wrong or indifferent the US was the main market for most of the LBC
sporting types in the last decade of their lives. BL could barely sell the
"octagoon" cars in their home market in the last few years... that should've
been a hint.
So... if the US market required a mod then most of the time the car got the
mod and the rest of the world had to lump it. Or work around it (as in
emissions).
Any UK experts out there?
Cheers,
Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-spitfires@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-spitfires@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Tom Harvey
> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 10:06 AM
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Spitfire 1500 year?
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> >Oh, and there is a picture of it at
> >http:\\www.tomh.demon.co.uk\spitfire.htm
> >but I don't think it is detailed enough to help.
>
> Oops! got me slashes the wrong way. That should of course have been:
> http://www.tomh.demon.co.uk/spitfire.htm
>
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