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...several years older. I refer, of course, to a minxy little mover lurking in eBay's classic car section: a bright yellow Triumph Spitfire as it happens, and it's won my heart. If you want this to be a summer of love you'll need the wheels. The one I saw had...
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/classiccars/7851250/Classic-Triumph-Spitfire.html
Jigsaw Racing's 1964/1965 Le Mans Spitfire at the Leicester & Rutland Area TSSC meeting at The Brant Inn, Groby, Leicestershire on Tues 4th May 2010. My passenger ride at night along A46, Leicestershire. Apologies for poor quality, filmed in far from ideal conditions with mobile phone!!
Here ya go, Running, car starts with no priming or assistance, turn key- and purr. 1975 triumph spitfire- Stage one motor and exhaust upgrade by PRI RACE, currently running a carb of a 2001 harley davidson deuce, with s/s teardrop air cleaner cover and k/n high flow filter. i have a mukuni from pri that is broke down and being cleaned and rebuilt. i am including it with car- TWO MOTORCYCLE CARB SETUPS TO PLAY WITH..... over all good shape, runs and drives but needs master cylinder and bushings etc, has stainless braklines up front, new gas tank, new fuel filter, new pressure regulator, hoses, fuel pump, new gas tank, many more new parts. lots of PRI goodies, ENGINE NO.0018, Tires are new, has spare too- i have the frame for the top, and a tore up skin, it is mostly complete but i planned on replacing so it is currently removed, frame is fine and works.
Here's another great new product from John Edwards @ Costa Mesa R&D Automotive Machine, its beehive valve springs for the Triumph Spitfire. A modified retainer is used to complete the kit for a tremendous weight savings and increase valve seat pressure for performance cams. www.engine-machining.com (949) 631-6376
Stand alone ECU on Triumph Spitfire MK4 , ECU build by Racing Code, Carburetor to EFI conversion TBI Injection, MAP sensor
Preview of the all-new double disc DVD 'Code Name: Bomb - The Story of the Triumph Spitfire and GT6' available from www.triumphdvd.co.uk as usual.
Mechanical Engineering Students from the University of Colorado Denver spent the Summer of 2009 converting a broken down 1967 Triumph Spitfire into a 100% Electric Vehicle. Our EV conversion can reach a top speed of 75 MPH and has a maximum range of 40 miles (of average city driving) all with an overnight charge (8-10 hours) on a standard 110 Volt outlet. We completed the entire conversion for under $10000 including almost $2000 of restoration work, all in about 8 weeks. For more information on this project please visit stefanelsener.googlepages.com
My 1977 Triumph Spitfire 1500 with Monza exhaust, racing suspension, performance headers, and a Weber carb.
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The one that caught my eye first was the very clean, automatic-equipped 1976 BMW 2002. The odometer reads just over 4,000 miles, which means it's either a very well-maintained 104,000-mile car or a 4,000-mile car that spent several decades moldering in
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Jalopnik
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Mike Brewer joins forces with top mechanic Edd China to put second-hand cars back on the road. The team tries to successfully complete the revival of the Triumph Spitfire.
Mike Brewer joins forces with top mechanic Edd China to put second-hand cars back on the road. The team tries to successfully complete the revival of the Triumph Spitfire.
" Well, I said spring was the time to be selling a ragtop, and I wasn't wrong. We had a good response from potential buyers when I put the car out for sale. But, will anyone be prepared to part with the right amount of cash for this fantastic little sports car?" " Probably, I have more budget." " You don't wanna do deals today?" " Maybe, so tomorrow [unk]--" " Okay, we don't hang around because when they're [unk], they don't hang around for long." " 2 down, 1 to go." " I think he likes what he sees so far. Wish me luck 'cause I'll try to close him down, and finally, get rid of this Spitfire. " " And you get along with it?" " Ah, it's a lovely condition, isn't it?" " Jeez, yeah. I mean, when I got the car, to be honest with you, we've done no paint work to it. So, the blue car bolted off, Edd repainted it. When I got the car, I had this annoying little misfire so I got my mechanic, Edd, to have a look at it, and he does not want to be doing things by half. He stripped the whole engine down, and he changed what I called the hard-seated valves. We've replaced the rear shock absorbers. And now, you can see, it handles nice and tight out on the road. In fact, the suspension should rise and fall 1-1/2 times, and that's exactly what it does. But the real work is done on the bumpers. Just look at them. Look at that, how shiny they are. So, great little car; I'm very pleased with it. All it needs Joe is a new owner. I'm gonna advertise it for 5 thousand pounds. I think it's a fair ...
" There are still plenty of jobs to do to a little classic Spitfire. We've got a noisy diff in the rear, the shock absorbers, and let's not forget the engine. The head is now back from the engineers. Now, it's got to be reinstalled. And that is all what we've done before I can hopefully sell it on for a profit." " Mike was complaining about, it's kind of really soggy back end, and this car has got a really simple suspension. This has got 1 leaf spring that goes from one side to the other. Essentially, there's a loads of, sort of bars of metals, sprung metal, held together with bolts. There's really very little that can be wrong with that. The only thing they can be, probably, is the shock absorbers. Now, what you're normally looking for is 1½ bounces when you're gonna give it some. So let's have a look. We'll, it's kind of really going on and on and on. So I think, basically, it's very, very fair to say that the shock absorbers are gone on this vehicle. It's gonna be very easy thing to take off. What to do is get the car up on the ramp and take the wheel off. Now, a problem that will come across in a minute is basically these shock absorbers and the tension because it's actually supporting some of the weight of the outside of this axle, this wheel basically. So, what I'm gonna have to do is get a trolley jackhammer here just to take a little bit of the strain, because if it gets too much pressure and that's gonna get a little bit dangerous. Now, the next thing is to try ...
Check out how John @ Costa Mesa R&D Automotive Machine rebuilds a rocker arm assembly for a Triumph Spitfire. www.engine-machining.com 949-631-6376
quick inspection of my spitfire
Triumph Spitfire road test, Feb 16, 2009
Full nut and bolt restoration project of 1972 Triumph Spitfire MKIV. For more information, photos and videos go to www.classic-car-magazine.co.uk
Triumph Spitfire MKIV Restoration.
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Were it not for Stanley Markland's curiosity, development of the 1963 Triumph Spitfire might not have been considered or completed. In mid-1961, Markland,
recently arrived as Triumph's CEO, was walking through the factory one day with technical
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How Stuff Works
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1963-1980-triumph-spitfire.htm
What else can you do on a wet summers holiday? yes its back, and its better, the second insight into my triumph spitfire 1500. featuring music from "the farm-altogether now"
1971 Triumph Spitfire MK4
Watch me liberate the hub from the axle on a 1971 Triumph Spitfire.
this is a walk around of my car for anyone interested in buying it. since the video, I have taken the decal off, gotten a new battery and put on a new valve cover.
A lap of La Sarthe in my Triumph Spitfire 6 (2l).
Testing the Triumph Spitfire Mk 4 and 1500 heater With fan powerd by alarm battrey and founting pump pumping hot water.
my dads first car that has been in my grandads garage for 25 years, sorry about the sound quality
This is me racing my spitfire no.19 at Snetterton Race Circuit in 1991. TLD white Vitesse and Kevin Ginger's white Spitfire amongst others
Triumph Spitfire Commercial Leyland 70´s
Race Supermarine vs Triumph Spitfire Commercial Leyland 70´s
Triumph Spitfire rising sun country ride
Sicherheitstraining für Englische Klassiker 2002 driver training for english classics 2002 drift praxis with dynamic drive system - rear axle will be moved 50 cm to left or right - you have to keep the car in direction
Surviving 36 years and to end its life through being rammed up the arse was not the best of ways to go. Some might think, that is the only way to go. Spitfire, may your ashes rest in piece and the rest aid others like you...
BDC Motorsports www.bdcmotorsports.com This is Ric Gibson's custom built (from the ground up) 1979 Triumph Spitfire powered by a BDC-built street-ported Mazda 13BT Rotary engine. A Turbonetics 60-1 provides boost in the high-altitude, Denver CO area. Video taken in summer '05. Tuned by BDC Motorsports. For more pictures of this gorgeous car, check these links bdc.cyberosity.com bdc.cyberosity.com
This is an old, rare video of the Triumph Spitfire being crash-tested. It isn't very good quality, but it's interesting anyway.
A fully plug-in conversion of a 1980 Triumph Spitfire by Alvan Judson of Asheville, North Carolina.
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...world." According to British drivers, the 10 cars which are 'most evocative of all things British' are: 1. Morris Minor 2 Triumph Spitfire and Austin Healey 4. Ford Anglia 5. Triumph Herald 6. Morris Oxford 7. Austin Cambridge 8. Vauxhall Victor 9. ...
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Sky News
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1287840,00.html?f=rss
The fifth video in the series of my restoration of a 1976 triumph spitfire
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...Stag Owners Club, which lent me my car. 'Happy hunting!' In precisely such terms might Lord Beaverbrook have delivered a new Spitfire to a Battle of Britain ace who was about to soar into the skies over Tangmere, harrying the Hun. Much about the Stag is off-putting...
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/08/19/sv_roadtest19.xml
This is a quit rare commercial out of the seventies about the Triumph Spitfire... I hope, this upload doesn't bother anyone, because it is worth to see... ;) by the way, a very nice car... ;)
Here's a video starting the Spit. Has a fouled plug due to carb issues that I'm currently working on, so it doesn't run as good as it normally does..... I will put up another vid once I get the carb issues sorted out.
the fourth video in the series of my restoration of a 1976 triumph spitfire
Roadster 1979 Triumph SpitFire Convertible.
crazyspitfire.blogspot.com http Loads of info on the car history and present updates. With I took some videos of it before I blew it to pieces :)
crazyspitfire.blogspot.com http Loads of info on the car history and present updates. You like that?!
crazyspitfire.blogspot.com http Loads of info on the car history and present updates. Some old videos from before my car got VERY fast :) This is a VERY VERY steep hill on the Malvern Hills.
the third video in the series of my restoration of a triumph spitfire
The second video of my restoration of a Triumph spitfire
The first video of my restoration of a 1976 triumph spitfire 1500
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