When I first glanced this shot of an early Spitfire by Eric Clem, I thought: Wow, that thing has fat tires on the rear and a flat in front. A closer look showed the problem to be with Eric’s camera.
The rest of the shots show that this Spitfire is in excellent shape and is not suffering from odd maladies.
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Has the picture been altered?
The front fender is showing a glitch in the matrix, but you already said it was from the camera.
Don’t know why the rear tire appears to be sitting on a section of tire tread.
Just odd.
Very nice car.
I think the rule is British for sports cars, but Japanese for cameras.
LOL!
A photoshop or other goof .
Nice car, great color .
-Nate
I see this same anomaly pretty often in Google Street View, with house roof lines not lining up, etc.
Don’t know what year this one is, but back in the day I bought a used 1962 Spitty, looks exactly like this one. IIRC, it ran pretty well but my job at the time required me to wear construction boots and I kept stepping on both the brake and the clutch at the same time, so it didn’t last long.
Tidy little Spitfire showing its Herald origins with Herald hubcaps and rear camber but perfectly useable as a sporty ride, theres not many of these cars left here now terminal rust and frail mechanicals took their toll
Was it cheapness or incompetence that speced the standing-seam fenders? I don’t buy them as design elements.
This was by Michelotti, so I’d hazard a guess at cost, but I don’t like them either.
I was thinking of their metal working skills.
Spitfire swing axles are O.K for club competition, hilclimbs, even slaloms, with a little help from aftermarket friends. The steering geometry on Herald and Spitfire allows a tight turning circle in city street dancing – slow, slow, quick, quick slow – though it ain’t Strictly Ballroom in the Ackerman sense; but who needs Ackerman geometry when they’re having fun at nine-tenths on Track Days!. The postwar Standard Eight (8 RAC horsepower, not cylinders) grew boldly biggish over the decades, and much special tuning makes Jack a far from dull boy. I’ve seen some bigger dropped in to that capacious engine bay. To keep it in the family, how does the Dolomite Sprint engine appeal, say, the turbo version used by SAAB, gaining techno cred that belonged to Triumph?
Isn’t the pretty GT6 just a Spitfire with a roof, more or less? If I’ve got that right, whyever not just shove a tuned 2.5 injection six under that little blue bonnet? Why, that’s direct family!
The swing axles on these were so bad it’s trying to tuck under and turn over even while parked. They all do it. Back in the day, owners would often returned from a pleasant pub lunch to find their Spitty showing it’s undergirdings in the carpark. all quite unseemly.
This was as good looking as Spitfires ever were, and, while it’s nice – especially in this sweet color – it’s never been quite right to me. It’s something about the front fenders being too high, making it look as like a bit of a reverse wedge.
Triumph attempt @ BMW 507, done on the Cheap:
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/ibimg/hgm/1920×1080-1/100/681/bmw_100681655.jpg
Missed it by THAT Much.