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RE: Spit-6

To: "'john donohoe'" <gt6driver@yahoo.com>, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net,
Subject: RE: Spit-6
From: "Bayrock, Michael" <michael_bayrock@bctransit.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:48:08 -0700
I have to concur with Jim and Barry - there are so many Spit tubs
available that it doesn't make sense to chop up a GT6 tub to make it
into a Spit.  Further to that, the labour required to swap tubs has to
be about 5% of the labour needed to do a clean job on the GT6 chop.

I have done the body swap onto a GT6 chassis, and the funny thing I find
is that there are times I wish that I had the GT6 tub on again,
especially during the monsoon season here on the west coast of Canada.
Maybe I should look for a good GT6 tub and swap tubs as the seasons
change...

Michael
70 & 71 GT6s
michael_bayrock@bctransit.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: john donohoe [SMTP:gt6driver@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 8:15 AM
> To:   triumphs@Autox.Team.Net; spitfires@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject:      Spit-6
> 
> Greetings all...
> 
> Having finished most of the mechanicals on my raodgoing GT6+, I now
> must consider the body. When I got the car many years ago, the body
> was a basket case, but I went ahead and bodged it together...
> 
> Now I've acquired a cheap, pretty clean GT6+ tub & frame and as I "go
> to it" properly, I'm considering the fact that I really always wanted
> an open car...
> 
> The Question: Has anyone ever converted a GT6+ tub into a Spitfire? I
> actually have free access to a MKII Spit body rear-end, so I figure
> I've got the pieces.
> 
> Thanks for the input,
> John Donohoe
> '70 GT6+
> '70 GT6+ tub/frame (future Spit 6?)
> 
> 

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