>(How's that for a subject guaranteed to start a thread?)
>In one of the TSSC magazines it was asserted that (and this
>is a paraphrase):
> Towards the end of the Spitfire era, they ran out of 1500
> engines during production. Some enterprising individual
> looked over at the Dolomite Sprint line, looked over the
> engines and decided to try to make one fit.
> With a bit of fiddling the engine went in, and a certain
> number of Spitfires went out with Dolly Sprint engines.
>Is there any truth in this, or is this pure urban legend?
>Anybody ever seen a Sprintfire? And were Spits and Sprints
>even made in the same plant?
Was this the April edition of the magazine, ie 1st April.
>Curious,
>djp@alpha.sunquest.com
>P.S. Personally I'm planning on putting a Rolls Royce
>Merlin engine in mine...make a _real_ Spitfire out of it.
>Not sure where I'll put the eight 9mm Brownings though...
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