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 [email protected] 1973 Spitfire 1500 in Magenta 1973 Stag in White. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:04:05 -0500 From: s1500 <[email protected]> Subject: [Spits] (late) Spitfire sighting: Top Gear To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Spits] (late) Spitfire sighting: Top Gear To: [email protected] Message-ID: <4aaca0a3.12767.3dea2...@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 [email protected] '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:39:39 -0700 From: Nick Moseley <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Spits] (late) Spitfire sighting: Top Gear To: [email protected] Message-ID: <a4cfb06351804defacb4427b41b33...@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, _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html You are subscribed as [email protected] [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
