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RE: '79 Spitfire bumpers -- chrome or plastic?

To: "Simmons, Reid W" <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>
Subject: RE: '79 Spitfire bumpers -- chrome or plastic?
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 15:55:29 -0400 (EDT)
Earlier today I'd noted that: 

> ...By 1979, those chrome bumpers were about 
> the only "bright" trim left on the Spitfires.

On Mon, 17 May 1999, Simmons, Reid W replied:

> Er, umm,  The '79s also had those BIG, BLACK, RUBBER, BABY-BUGGY BUMPERS.

Er, umm, we're both right. As near as I can tell from various sources, 
U.S.-bound 1979 model year Spitfires were numbered beginning around 
FM90001U. TRF's Spitfire 1500 cataloge notes the change to the rubber or 
plastics bumpers was made at FM95001[U]. They also (incorrectly, I 
believe) note that the 1979 model year began with FM95001. Again, at that 
same dealer where I spent so much time way back when, I remember seeing 
lots of new 1979 model year Spitfires before seeing the black bumpers. 
Definitely a mid-year change as I recall.

--Andy

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