🚙 Triumph Spitfire Joins the Haynes Fleet! 🚘

From: Haynes - Tuesday Mar 22,2022 01:13 pm

Haynes’ World is where we share stories of what we've been getting up to with our own cars, motorbikes and other vehicles. Some are decades old, others are more recent – but all of them get the same care and attention you lavish on your own vehicles.

This time: we welcome a Spitfire to the fleet

Car: 1972 Triumph Spitfire Mk4
Owner: Nigel Donnelly, product manager

“Winter isn’t the time for buying little open-topped classic cars. I also don’t need any projects. I already have an air-cooled Volkswagen to plump my overdraft but when a friend announced that he needed to offload a classic British sports car to make room on his driveway for a new car, I made the mistake of asking a couple of questions. A week later, I was driving it home.

The car in question is a 1972 Triumph Spitfire Mk4. It is a pretty early Mk4 so has a black plastic dashboard rather than a later wooden one.

It is pretty scruffy all over, but happily, it appears to be free of rot. It is also free of shine. It looks like it is painted in Tipp-Ex.

It is white with a black interior, although the British Motor Industry Heritage Certificate I ordered says it was originally brown with a tan interior. The car was restored in the 1990s and this is when the colour was changed. Brown cars may have crept back into acceptability in recent years but no-one wanted brown cars in the 1990s.

It has kept its original 1300cc engine, although it does not have the desirable overdrive option. Shame.”

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