I've decided to do a blog on my '68 Triumph Spitfire car project. I've been inspired by fellow Triumph bloggers at http://carnewbie.blogspot.com/. They are working on the same car, a 1968 MK 3 Triumph Spitfire. I found their blog after buying my car on ebay and have enjoyed following them.
I always liked the Triumph. When I was a kid delivering News Papers I remember seeing a guy working on one in his driveway. I remember saying someday I'm going to get one of those. So now almost 40 years later I have. In July 2010 I placed a bid on Ebay and before I knew it I won! The first thing that I asked was oh gosh what have I done! But after paying for the car ( price undisclosed) I relaxed, and started making plans to have the car delivered from Vermont to Florida.
Because of where the car was located however finding a transport was nearly impossible. In the end I went to Vermont myself, picked up the car on October 31st, put it on a Uhaul transport, and got it out of there just before snow was about to hit. Good thing I didn't wait longer.
One thing I noticed on the trip back with the car in tow was the great amount of interest in the car by passers by. The questions kept coming whenever I stopped: What kind of car is that? Does it run? Is it in good shape? How did you find it? What did it cost? etc. I answered as I could, not being an expert or knowing really how good or bad condition the car really was in yet. My hope was that it was in fairly decent shape and my plan was to start tearing into it when I get it back home.\\
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