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Re: Spitfire Wheel

To: Ralph Goodwin <rgoodwin@ipass.net>
Subject: Re: Spitfire Wheel
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 23:19:11 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Ralph Goodwin wrote:

> I recently bought a set of wheels that were auctioned on ebay.  They
> were advertised as fitting either a Triumph Spitfire or a BMW.  When I
> got the wheels I found that they would not fit my 80 Spitfire.  The
> studs would fit into the holes but just barely, rubbing the inside of
> the hole, far from centered. No way to get the tube lug nut in.   I
> contacted the people I bought them from.  I think we are going to work
> it out, but they still insist the wheels came off a Spitfire.  My car is
> a 1980, they say the wheels were taken off a 1962.  Is there a
> difference in Spitfire bolt patterns?

No. All Spitfires (along with Heralds, GT6s, Vitesses, TR7s, some Lotus
models, etc.) had a 3.75" diameter bolt circle. Perhaps the 1962 Spitfire
(sic; the car was introduced very late in that calendar year, so they
were really 1963 models) was really a 1962 Sprite, as in Austin-Healey.
Those cars used a 4" diameter bolt circle -- close, but obviously not 
close enough.

--Andy

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