For those that are curious you CAN fit a TR4 luggage rack to a roundtail SpitfireBUTit takes a little modification Since new racks are not available for the Spitfire I had often wondered if a TR4 rack would fit since they look identical - They almost are except that the brackets are slightly different and where it bolts to the boot the TR4 rack has small brackets welded to the tubular bar where it attaches to the boot where as the Spitfire just has holes through the tubular part, no welded on brackets - Now one might get by with simply cutting off the tabs, grinding down the welds left after this has been done, drilling a couple of holes through the bar, then getting the whole thing re-chromed but that would be rather expensive and I think that you would still have to make new brackets that mount under the hinges since they are slightly different I opted for another way. I still had to make a set of under hinge brackets (a pretty simple affair for me). This allowed me to place the rack at the correct distance to allow the use of the TR4 rack as shipped (had to just tweak the boot mounting tabs to the correct angle to line up with the boot contour, but that was it). The new brackets are identical to the Spitfire brackets except the rack mounting holes are a half a inch further back. The other problem with this setup is that since the bottom bar where it mounts to the boot is now elevated (this bar would be nearly flush with the boot on a Spitfire rack thus clearing the boot handle) the handle is now smack in the way if you try to turn it. The solution was to use a GT6 hatch handle this fits without modification and since it only has one leg, it allows you to use the latch without fouling on the rack bar Not concours, but it works and looks practically the same as a correct Spitfire one would
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