Oy s1500, watch your mouth. That color was called Magenta. It wasn't the most
popular color, but was available across the full Triumph line. I have a 1500
in that
color, and I know of a couple of TR6s and Stags in Magenta. There was
a GT6
and another Spitfire here in Michigan, but I haven't seen either in
probably 30 years.
When I lived in the UK, I saw a Dolomite Sprint in it as
well. Generally, it was only
available 1973-4.
There is a picture of my car
on the Triumphspitfire.com site. It is in the section
on stripes.
The Triumph
wreath on the bonnet is not original.
Doug Mitchell
dmitchel@sbcglobal.net
1973 Spitfire 1500 in Magenta
1973 Stag in White.
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:04:05 -0500
From: s1500
<s1500@comcast.net>
Subject: [Spits] (late) Spitfire sighting: Top Gear
To:
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You know I'm
behind on reporting this when the database website has
snapshots of it.
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_241937-Triumph-Spitfire-1974.html
WHY would
anyone paint it this color?
I just spotted a hardtopped Spitfire in "American
Raspberry" a truly
awful movie.
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:34:59 -0400
From: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Subject: Re: [Spits] (late) Spitfire sighting: Top Gear
To:
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On 13 Sep 2009 at 1:04, s1500
wrote:
> You know I'm behind on reporting this when the database website has
> snapshots of it.
>
>
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_241937-Triumph-Spitfire-1974.html
>
> WHY would
anyone paint it this color?
You must be a youngster. :-)
I don't have any
factory color charts for reference, but cars of this
and similar colors were
not uncommon in the US in the 60's. I
could'a swore that Spitfires of this
color existed too, though maybe
not quite that exact shade.
--
Jim Muller
jimmuller@rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:39:39 -0700
From: Nick Moseley
<nmoseley@dccnet.com>
Subject: Re: [Spits] (late) Spitfire sighting: Top Gear
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
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Jim, there was a least one purple Spit. Would it have been
called Damson?
At any rate, I have a bonnet that had since been repainted BRG,
but the
original purple blazed out in pride from beneath the side marker
assembly
once that assembly had been removed.
Nick Moseley,
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