The 2nd Spitfire I fell in love with was a '78 (it was a new car-tells you
how long ago!) named Betsy. And she was a lovely deep chocolate metallic
brown (not really semi sweet-more of a milk chocolate) and she had some nice
racing kind of stripes- in a sort of reflector white and yellow. I know,
they sound ghastly, but they were really quite smashing! I have since seen
other brown Spits-but, more of a plain brown. And she was all straight from
the factory.
There's my 2 cents.
Laura G.
'78 BRG Spitfire named 'Nigel'
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Levy - Computer Consultants - Hwd. FL <sales@cocoinc.com>
To: spitfires@Autox.Team.Net <spitfires@Autox.Team.Net>
Date: Thursday, August 20, 1998 7:24 PM
Subject: Brown Color
>I have not seen many brown Spitfires around, I wonder if it's because they
>were rare (doubt it) everyone hates brown cars or that they just look
better
>in red or green. I would like to know your opinion on this, it is a 1980
>1500 and has original brown paint.
>I bought the car about 2 weeks ago, it runs great, needs inserts on the
>seats (beige houndstooh), needs new top and the paint has about 5 or 6
>1-inch or less surface rust spots, nothing serious. Should I paint it or
>strip it and paint it another color? I don't particularly like the brown
but
>others seem to, I know it's MY car, but what are the pros and cons.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jack
>76 TR6
>80 Spitfire
>80 TR8
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