A question to the collective genius,
What is the concensus on what color the frame of a 1967 Spit Mk3 should be?
Are we talking body color or black or white or what? I know that Triumph
had a penchant for using any paint on hand if they ran out of chassis color
but what is the normal chassis color?
I have run into a couple of interesting things doing the frame-off on my
Spit Mk3 (1967). I have found that the vehicle has had a couple of
restorations, the frame has at least two different layers of paint on
it! And does anyone think Triumph would have used a very late 1966 frame
on a very early 1967 Spit? My chassis has two numbers on it, an FC and an
FD number, the FC number is in the 91K area. The more likely answer is
that during an earlier restoration a 1966 frame was slid under the 1967
car.
And one other thing, is the commissioning number plate always on the left
side above the body number plate? I ran into one the other day that had
the Comm plate on the RIGHT side, but everthing else was in the correct
place, and all of the numbers were in the correct ranges, and the number
plates looked legitimate.
Later,
Darrell Leach, KD6LRC DM-15, Ridgecrest, Ca
email: token@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us
or: darrell_leach-mti@echo.chinalake.navy.mil
1962 TR-4 (CT5368LO) 28,000 miles
1965 Spitfire Mk 2 (FC51603L)
1967 Spitfire Mk 3 (FD2980LO) in work
1984 GL1200A GoldWing 128,000 miles (go figure)
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