Jeff,
Puzzle no more. This ingenuous owner has used GT6 doors on his Mk2 or Mk3 Spit
(you can tell by the door handles).
Joe
Jeff McNeal wrote:
>
> Well, I haven't received my Spitfire & GT6 magazine yet (hopefully it will
> arrive sooner than the last time!), but I did receive the Autum 2000 Moss
> Motors rag.
>
> Now, before I continue, it's always ticked me off how Moss has written off
> round-tail Spits, so naturally I was amused/enraged that they would use a
> photo of a Mk1,2 or 3 Spitfire (can't tell cause the photo is cropped) on
> the second page of their center insert catalog to advertise tops for MkIV
> and 1500 models. What kind of crap is THAT?
>
> Now, my real question. In looking at the car in the catalog, I was puzzled
> to see a wind wing on the door. Not the kind that you screw on to the
> windshield frame -- the kind that's built-into the door! To my knowledge,
> early (or even later) Spitfires never had a wind wing (ala MGB) in their
> doors, did they?
>
> TIA
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jeff in San Diego
>
> '67 RHD Spitfire Mk3 aka "Mrs. Jones"
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