[Spits] (late) Spitfire sighting: Top Gear

[Doug Mitchell]

Oy s1500, watch your mouth. That color was called Magenta. It wasn't the most
popular color, but was available across the full Triumph line. I have a 1500
in that
color, and I know of a couple of TR6s and Stags in Magenta. There was
a GT6
and another Spitfire here in Michigan, but I haven't seen either in
probably 30 years.
When I lived in the UK, I saw a Dolomite Sprint in it as
well. Generally, it was only
available 1973-4.

There is a picture of my car
on the Triumphspitfire.com site. It is in the section
on stripes.

The Triumph
wreath on the bonnet is not original.

Doug Mitchell
dmitchel at sbcglobal.net
1973 Spitfire 1500 in Magenta
1973 Stag in White.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:04:05 -0500
From: s1500
<s1500 at comcast.net>
Subject: [Spits] (late) Spitfire sighting: Top Gear
To:
spitfires at autox.team.net
Message-ID: <4AAC8B55.3000500 at comcast.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

You know I'm
behind on reporting this when the database website has 
snapshots of it.
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_241937-Triumph-Spitfire-1974.html

WHY would
anyone paint it this color?

I just spotted a hardtopped Spitfire in "American
Raspberry" a truly 
awful movie.


------------------------------

Message: 2
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:34:59 -0400
From: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller at rcn.com>
Subject: Re: [Spits] (late) Spitfire sighting: Top Gear
To:
spitfires at autox.team.net
Message-ID: <4AACA0A3.12767.3DEA2B4F at localhost>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

On 13 Sep 2009 at 1:04, s1500
wrote:

> You know I'm behind on reporting this when the database website has
> snapshots of it.
> 
>
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_241937-Triumph-Spitfire-1974.html
> 
> WHY would
anyone paint it this color?

You must be a youngster. :-)

I don't have any
factory color charts for reference, but cars of this 
and similar colors were
not uncommon in the US in the 60's.  I 
could'a swore that Spitfires of this
color existed too, though maybe 
not quite that exact shade.

-- 
Jim Muller
jimmuller at rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+


------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:39:39 -0700
From: Nick Moseley
<nmoseley at dccnet.com>
Subject: Re: [Spits] (late) Spitfire sighting: Top Gear
To: spitfires at autox.team.net
Message-ID:
<A4CFB06351804DEFACB4427B41B33025 at yourb27fb1c401>
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii

Jim, there was a least one purple Spit. Would it have been
called Damson?
At any rate, I have a bonnet that had since been repainted BRG,
but the
original purple blazed out in pride from beneath the side marker
assembly
once that assembly had been removed.


Nick Moseley,