1979 Trouble Spitfire

[SiC]

What have I found?

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Busy day at the SiC household. With the Rover gone, it was time to pick up it's replacement. Due to an insurance timing fuck up on my part, @N Dentressangle kindly delivered this for me.

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Just done four hours of driving going back and forth so I'm now a bit knackered. I'd usually sit in it and have a fiddle but I might end up falling asleep in there.

[Hooli]

Does look a smart one in that colour

[SiC]

Aston Martin Green I believe.

I would have loved a red or orange one but I bought this as a (almost) fully working car. Also I like it because it isn't a factory colour and is different.
ND had been commuting in/out of Bristol in this on the motorway. So unlike everything else I've bought recently, I can jump in and get instant gratification.

That said it'll probably throw a rod now (because 1500)

[NorfolkNWeigh]

That looks great, the colour really makes it look quite exotic. It’s been many years since I drove a small Triumph, but looking how tiny that looks next to your Boxster and how I huff and puff crawling in and out of ours, I don’t think I’d even fit!

[christine]

A Coronation Spitfire after all ! Glad you got this one ,looks a peach⁰

[Eddie Honda]

...Saying okey-dokey, sing-a-long a Smokie
SiC pokey-pokey...

[SiC]

I started poking a crusty looking bit by the windscreen before I had even transferred the money.

I did promise ND that I wouldn't start poking it. There is a photo album of the last restoration it had in the 90s and it does make it clear the bits that must not be poked (i.e. filler)

But generally very solid all round. Three bits of note. That windscreen area, rear nearside bottom quarter and a hole in the door area of the sill (this one I may fix though). First two are TADIS. Of course being body on chassis, those first two aren't too concerning to sort.

Stuff I can all sort after summer. Being a working car, there is less chance of me poking stuff while needing to repair other bits.

[SiC]

Hopefully ND doesn't mind me posting these but his photos are much better than the ones I took recently. Give a much better idea of the colour and the car generally.



















 

[mercrocker]

That looks nice. Make sure you get a good summer out of it first! Much as I liked the P4 I would really enjoy a Spitfire too....

[Hooli]

I've always liked Spits and that does look good. I nearly got one instead of the Midget I had years ago.