In a message dated 4/18/2004 11:51:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
dixie4@wales.freeserve.co.uk writes:
Were all TR4A chassis painted black?
The reason I ask this is that on a 1965 dealer brochure that I have for the
new TR4A clearly shows pictures of a white car with a white chassis.
So why the white chassis?
Possibly for similar reasons? Perhaps the 4A used for the photos in that
brochure was actually a prototype? I'm relatively certain that the original
prototype Spitfire 4 ("412 VC") was used in several forms for early Spitfire
advertising and sales brochures. In some of the photos one can very clearly see
a
white or pale grey chassis on an otherwise Signal Red car, while production
Spitfires had chassis painted body color.
--Andy Mace
*Mrs Irrelevant: Oh, is it a jet?
*Man: Well, no ... It's not so much of a jet, it's more your, er,
Triumph Herald engine with wings.
-- Cut-price Airlines Sketch, Monty Python's Flying Circus (22)
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