[Spits] Painting a Spit: Single-stage vs. BC/CC?

[Daniel Parrott]

Does anyone have the dimensions or the pattern for the LeMans Style nose
strip?  Or do you just eyeball it?


Dan Parrott
Savannah, Ga
1980 Triumph Spitfire "PJ"
1972/1978 Spit Six Project car "Joseph"



-----Original Message-----
From: spitfires-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:spitfires-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Mark J Bradakis
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:13 PM
To: Spitfire list
Subject: Re: [Spits] Painting a Spit: Single-stage vs. BC/CC?

I prefer the single stage paints, usually in original factory colors.
They have the appropriate, oh, character for the cars.

Back when I was younger and more enthusiastic I had this idea
that I wanted three Spitfires - a street car, a show car and one to
race.  And I had a paint scheme in mind, using four factory
colors -  Delft Blue, Wedgewood Blue, Royal Blue ( a really dark
navy ) and Jasmine yellow.  I did get one car painted in the scheme
I had in mind, check out the bottom photo on the page at
http://fatchancegarage.com   The body is Jasmine, the LeMans
style nose strip is Delft, with a thin line of Wedgewood edging.
I did have a Mark 1 street car that I got started on, had a rough
coat of Delft on it to see if I really liked the color.  I did, well,
still do.

Never did get more than one Spit running at a time, but I did
manage to get the air tank to match:

http://www.team.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18



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