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Spitfire New Spitfire[s] in town

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]May God have mercy on his soul.[/QUOTE]

What about the rest of us???? We could use a little help too!
 
Ha Ha, when my best friend and I were road racing Spitfires back in the sixties and seventies we probably destroyed a half dozen derelict Heralds for parts and took the dregs to the crusher. Lots of good stuff in a Herald. There was this guy named Andy that got a lot of our castoff parts when we quit racing and gave up our storage barn. Bob
 
Bob Claffie said:
Ha Ha, when my best friend and I were road racing Spitfires back in the sixties and seventies we probably destroyed a half dozen derelict Heralds for parts and took the dregs to the crusher. Lots of good stuff in a Herald. There was this guy named Andy that got a lot of our castoff parts when we quit racing and gave up our storage barn. Bob
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<span style="font-style: italic">Andy...Andy...</span>where have I heard that name....

Oh, you mean <span style="font-weight: bold">me</span>!?
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Guilty as charged, and still ever grateful to you and the rest of "The Garage" staff for what I was able to get from that barn. Sadly, I just didn't have the time to get more.

Someday I hope to find the slides I took of my buying a Mk3 Spitfire body from these folks. The best pictures are of us all lowering it from the upper hay loft door down directly onto the roof of my beater '68 Volvo wagon for the 25-mile trip home!
 
I just live in the wrong part of the US for Triumphs. I need to live in the NY, Ohio area. There seems to be a ton of Triumphs in those areas.
 
True. Of course, NYC was not only a port of entry, but it was also home to corporate headquarters of many of the importers back then. Luckily all that "spilled" up the Hudson to the Albany area, where just about every conceivable kind of import was sold by someone back in the day. There were the obvious VW, Renault, MG and Triumph dealers, but just about everything else as well. (There was even a Fairthorpe dealer in the Albany area in the early 1960s!)
 
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