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It's a day of modified classics, modified Triumph Spitfires
Unfortunately we are concentrating on cars that have an open roof, open sports cars and it's raining
any photo shoot like this we're in the lap of the gods weather-wise
It would be nice to postpone it to another day when it is sunny, er we can't do that
If it's a test with open cars you really want to test them with the roof down to get the best experience of them. Old British sports cars, with soft tops, are quite noisy the wind pours in, the rain pours in and it's not really a fair assessment
Lovely 1964 Le-Mas Car, ADU1B raced at Le Mans in sixty four with two others ADU2B and ADU3B and here it is today and it's still raced, which is excellent, it was at the Le Mans classic last year
The green one with a white stripe has a Renault five GT Turbo engine, lightly increased in boost pressure so it's producing more than the standard one hundred and fifteen bhp, which is itself plenty for a Spitfire
It is a bit of a work-in-progress that goes very fast and on this wet and slippery circuit it is a bit on the scary side
The yellow one is
known to its friends as Gitfire because it's a Spitfire with a GT6 engine
well bit more than a GT6 engine
started off with a GT6 engine, now has the Triumph 2500S version of that engine installed with twin carburettors.
It's great fun, a bit nose heavy but goes unexpectedly well
feels like a car the factory could have made
ADU2B, which wasn't the car that raced at Le Mans but bares the number of the car that raced at Le Mans
It's actually a replica of a Macau grand prix car
Far Eastern
race-series from many years ago and uh... it's in the spirit of not an exact replica of.
That one's actually running a 1500cc engine, freshly built, can't use more than
four thousand rpm and the odd hole in the carbonation, but it's still good fun
It feels very much like the Le-Mans car actually, apart from it's engine.
It has a very stiff, rigid, all of a piece feel to it and it's a lovely thing
a little bit knocked about which kind of makes it more real actually
all of these cars have their roots in the standard car
the Valencia-blue, sort of turquoise, dark-blue car,
which is a standard 1300cc Spitfire mark3
Apart from its wide, chrome, wire-wheels. They are the only
obvious non-standard thing about it.
it's a lovely, charming, sweet, gentle thing compared with the others
shows that you could do quite a lot more with a Spitfire than I personally realised that you could.