---Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Thomas Carney wrote:
>
> > That car is really nice! One question though, what happened to
the
> > bulge? Are these the Spit6 bodies that were put on TR5 frames hence
> > the engine sits lower?
>
> Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding your reference here. But none of
the
> works Spitfires -- rallye or race -- had six-cylinder engines.*
Therefore,
> no bulge originally on any of them. And the bodies were never on the
TR5
> frame: a. it didn't exist until the career of the works Spitfires was
> nearly over, and b: no way it would fit together. TR gearboxes were
used
> at times in some of the works Spitfires, though.
Hmm that is strange... I swear I heard on speedvision about a year ago
that the early what they reffered to as the "spit6" was on a TR frame.
This was on one of their history segments, I believe it was the 64 or
65 Alpine Rally. Could this be the one race in which the Lemans
bonnet was used? The one shown had faired lamps. Perhaps I
misinterpreted the info or college life got in the way.
> Also, the works rallye cars and "endurance" cars had primarily the
> fastback shape in common. I think it was for one event and one event
only
> that the rallye cars borrowed the faired-headlamp bonnets of the
LeMans
> cars. Most of the time, the rallye cars had "normal" headlamp
position
> often augmented by extra lamps grafted to the bonnet inboard of the
> regular headlamps.
>
> > What ever happened to the guy who said he had
> > the machinery or knew someone that could make fiberglass replicas?
He
> > was US based...
>
> He's around and is or was on the list. He and I chatted a bit about
this
> sometime back. This would not be an inexpensive undertaking,
particularly
> if the desired result would be a quality product that fitted easily
and
> well and maintained original features such as the inner wheel wells,
> support tubes and hinge pivot brackets. After seeing some of the
earlier
> "replica" bonnets and hearing horrible stories about struggles to
make
> them half-way presentable and useful, I'd not want to go through that
> sort of thing!
Makes fiberglass look like a bad idea. Oh well....it was a shot...Now
how to make faired hedlamps on and existing GT6, I'll have to figure
this one out....This topic has really falred up my curiousity
unfourtunately a college budget does not allow for much creativity.
> --Andy
>
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Tom
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