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Spitfire
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Included in the price was a workshop manual, my “instructions for assembly.”
We closed the deal.
The adventure begins
I returned to the seller’s house on a Wednesday afternoon, and even as we loaded the car on a trailer for the trip home, he kept finding more parts in his garage and shed to send home with me — a tonneau cover here, a convertible boot there, a coffee-can full of nuts and bolts from somewhere else. And also, extra parts from yet another Spitfire he’d stripped. I was almost overwhelmed.
Before I lined up the trailer to haul the car, I made one more decision that would make the process of getting the car back on the road much easier and less expensive: I went ahead and bought the rusted-out ‘75 in Winchester for parts.
Not only would it provide an endless supply of small parts, fasteners, and a hardtop — I had a full-scale template of where things should go.
I got both cars home, and began tinkering in earnest.
As the former owner warned me, parts were expensive — but not that hard to locate.
Immediate needs, like rebuilding the clutch master cylinder so the car could be moved, were no problem.
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