The first obstacle in trying to find the location of the 100,000th Spitfire is to determine the actual commission number of the 100,000th vehicle.
As John explained, there is not much concrete documentation of all the Spits that were produced since little remains of build records of all the units produced in other countries from knocked down kits. Since the BMIHT archives do not even have 100 percent verification on the last commission number of certain year models, any such information would be speculation at best. We do know where the final car off the assembly line is, but there are even people who suggest even that is not 100 percent verified. I had one person send me his commission number swearing that it was the last one built based on some note scribbled inside one of is door panels when it came down the assembly line. I guess we just have to be satisfied that we have one or more of these little beauties and let it go at that. Joe C. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Parrott Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 3:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Spits] FW: Spitfire build quantity -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Parrott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 5:42 PM To: 'John Macartney' Subject: RE: [Spits] Spitfire build quantity With the cover article on the August 2008 "Hemmings Sports and Exotics" magazine on the "100,000 MGA," I wonder where just where the 100,000th Spitfire is in the USA? In the world? _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
