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24-12-11, 13:00
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Restoring a Spitfire in a garage? Yes the WW2 fighter...
I remember seeing a TV show ages ago which showed a guy restoring a Spitfire in his own garage. It must have been at least 10 or 15 years ago. I tried finding it on the web a few times now, but given the fact that Triumph made a small sports car with the same name....and that this one is more at home in a "garage", meant that all my attempts were in vain until now.
Does the mentioned TV show ring any bells with someone? I remember seeing the Spit fuselage stored along the long garage wall. Alex
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24-12-11, 15:05
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Hi Alex
I think the Spit you're referring to is V-Vicky (ML407). It was restored by Nick Grace and flown by him until he was killed in a car accident. The aircraft is now flown by his widow Caroline or by his son. Very popular on the airshow circuit. I seem to remember the restoration being shown on TV. ML407 is a genuine WW2 veteran Mk9 converted to a 2-seater after the war.
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25-12-11, 00:06
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here it is ...
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26-12-11, 13:25
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Dave, Terry, Thanks!
That must indeed be the one. On the Grace Spitfire website they also offer a DVD covering the TV show from the eighties......that would be the show I remember. And there is a wee-bit of the show on youtube showing the first engine starts of the spit after restoration. thanks, Alex p.s. Such a small world. I just realised that this particular Spitfire was one of the three seen in the "Top gear vs. The Germans" episode I just watched last week!
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31-12-11, 15:27
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oh my ...clicking on that link brings up that oh sooooo lovely sound of the engine on flypast..oooooOOOOOoo So good to know its being flown and not stuck in a museum as a statue, or worse, atop a concrete pylon.
by the way, you do know the famous spitfire wings were designed by a Canadian, eh?
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03-01-12, 20:43
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Just seen a article on the local bbc news about a group building 12 replica spitfires in enstone oxfordshire.
http://www.enstoneflyingclub.co.uk/n....php?wnID=2589 Last edited by maverick; 03-01-12 at 20:48.
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03-01-12, 22:44
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Those 90% aircraft are probably Mike O'Sullivan's machines. Mike is a CMP owner (drove from Istanbul to Normandy with us in his C15A).
The design is absolutely outstanding and has developed from a small homebuilt "toy" to something that is unrecognisable quite close up from a real aircraft. The handling and performance are outstanding and it will outclimb a real Spitfire. Mike has just shifted his whole operation to USA taking some of his key people from Australia and has resumed production. I hope the Oxford venture gets up. Lang
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07-01-12, 18:03
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ah if only I had 300 thousand $$$$$ (add taxes of course)
http://gizmodo.com/278044/build-your...m-a-263000-kit but oh those wings, designed by a Canadian ;-)
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I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot! Last edited by Marc Montgomery; 07-01-12 at 18:12.
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12-04-12, 10:49
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stumbled upon this on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDbc5...eature=related
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05-01-15, 22:36
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More restoration work, or more realistically - reconstruction - going on:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/battle-brit...ealand-1456094 H.
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