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Re: Identification plate on a '63 spitfire

To: "Joe Curry" <Spitlist@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Identification plate on a '63 spitfire
From: "Jeff McNeal" <jmcneal@ohms.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:15:00 -0800
In that case, I gladly stand corrected!   Thanks for setting me straight, Joe.
Now if you can just tell the guy who put that plate on that '63 Spitfire...

Jeff
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Joe Curry
  To: Jeff McNeal
  Cc: Suzie ; Triumph ; Spitfire
  Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 7:15 AM
  Subject: Re: Identification plate on a '63 spitfire




  Jeff McNeal wrote:
  >
  > Let's not forget that the Spitfire sports what amounts to be a modified
  > tractor motor.  Sounds like the PO had a lively sense of humor to me.
And
  > right now, somewhere in rural Oregon, there's a tractor with a '63
Spitfire
  > commission plate attached to it.

  Jeff,

  I have heard that said all too often.  However it is completely false!
  The Spitfire motor does not share any common lineage to tractors.  That
  is the TR2,3,4 wetliner engine that is the same basic design that was
  used in Ferguson tractors.  The link in in name only.

  JOe

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