To see another 4 wheel drive Spitfire, check out:
http://www.detroittriumph.org/photos.html
near the bottom of the page. Not on a Jeep chassis,
but rather a Suzuki Samuri with a V6.
Doug
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Rowe [mailto:growe58@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 10:54 PM
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Unusual Spitfire Sighting
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> I didn't expect to see a Spitfire while I was on vacation,
> particularly in rather out of the way Wellsboro PA. But there
> I am at the ice cream parlor with my back to the window when
> my family's eyes suddenly get wide as they look out the window.
> "Is that a SPITFIRE?". Now I've got them trained pretty good
> in recognizing Triumphs, so their incredulity caused me to turn
> around rather quickly. Well yeah, it was a Spitfire, at least
> from the rocker panels up. Below, well I wasn't sure...
>
> Of course, I talked to the owner while he was ordering cones
> and he told me that it was a Jeep CJ5 chassis with a Spitfire
> body. Apparently, it had started life as a parts car, but he
> couldn't abide wasting a good tub, so it was married to the Jeep.
> Probably practical around there with lots of mountains and unpaved
> roads. Personally, we all thought the looks were rather, uh,
> awkward, but I do admire his motives. Certainly very little of
> the Spitfire personality could have survived, however...
>
> It surely made my day, however.
>
> Greg Rowe
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