Hi Paul,
I'll try to give You some hints to what You've got...
Or probably got... ;-)
The FC 70653 (without an L suffix? If so then it should be right hand
drive...) tells us it's one Spitfire Mk2 made rather late in 1965.
First one made after Jan 1 1966 was FC 71766... So it is OK to be
licensed as a '66 I guess. But it's actually a car made in 1965 You've
got.
The front comes from a much later Spitfire. A Mk3, and the first of
those wasn't made until Jan 1967, so it seems some DPO obviously
"fixed" something more than a mere fender bender... If Your front
have got an aluminium plinth for the mounting of the park/turn light
cluster - then it's from a Mk3 up to FD 7031, if the light cluster is
mounted directly on the bonnet - then it's from a later car. The first
7031 Mk3's were fitted with the plinth so as to use the leftover Mk2
bonnets.
Hope this clarifies things.
Yours
/Odd
Paul Cormier skrev:
> Hi!
> I checked out all my serial numbers to try and figure out if what
> year my spitfire really is.
> Registration says 1966,
> but the front park/turn lamps are rectangular, which seems to come
> from a mk3. The bumper isn't on the car, but I =think= it goes over
> the lamps, like on a mk3. The bumper however doesn't have rubbers
> on the overriders...
> Here are the numbers, if anyone can give me a definite answer, I'd
> appreciate it.
> Comm no:FC70653
> Body: 63317FC
> All other parts (motor, tranny, diff) have serial numbers starting
> with FC also.
> The numbers lead me to beleive it really is a '66. Is it possible
> that it was built late in '66, so they started using parts from a
> mk3?
> Paul
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