Odd Hedberg wrote:
Hi Odd,
> The FC 70653 (without an L suffix? If so then it should be right hand
The "L" was so far right, and rusted, that I never noticed it. :)
> 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
That's good to know.
> 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
What do you mean by "plinth"?
> 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
The turn lignts are mounted directly on the bonnet. From my Haynes
manual, the mk3 lights are on the bonnet, and the later km4 are on the
front valance. So this would be the front end of a mk3, right?
Is there a big difference between the bonnet of a mk3 and mk2? What
about the mounting brackets for the bumper... I'd like to bring it back
to the original mk2 look.
..Paul
> > 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?
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