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Yeah I just thought of all the cars to exhibit this stuff on a Triumph was very cool... Also interesting to see how much finally made into production cars in the end.

Possibly been posted here before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Woz270D1HE

The surfaces have to pristine and cleaned with alcohol. I used them all over our house and most have stuck fine...

Most of my kids' friends have a very different attitude to cars than we do. Look at what they grew up with though... All the blobby, rounded, silver nothing specials rolling around... The fact that car manufacturers have dedicated branches called "lifestyle cars" speaks volumes. I grew not far from Detroit so our car culture was a little different most I presume. i.e. you picked on of the holy trinity (Ford, GM, Chrysler) and you stuck to it. We were a GM family. Keeping things on the road was essential and it was uncommon to sell a car with less then 100,000 miles on it even in Michigan (pronounced MISH- again, Mitch-again 😄 ) with its hard winters and salted roads. We only ever took our cars to a specialist to have the alignment done. All the rest we did at home. My Dad taught my Mom and sister how to change a tire at the very least and check all the fluids etc. Cars now are just like smart devices. Throw away, barely reparable and as mentioned above sucking up more and more data about you. In the project I am hoping to work on (if it gets funded) I want to point out to the youths how having an older car gives you more control over how things look and work. You don't need to go to garage every time something bings or bongs. Please you put your blood sweat and tears into it! Personally in general I have no problems with someone modding a car, be it electric or or V8. I think a car's soul is what the owner has done and does with it less if it is farting dino juice. If that grandfather clock is essentially irreparable I would rather someone put an electric motor in than have it sit broken in a corner. In fact, I think it is more o a problem when someone sits on something classic and refuses to do anything with it. There was an episode of Car SOS where they were restoring the Sebring Sprite and the guy refused to sell some of the parts that would have made the car as original as possible (I think it turned out to not be the engine they thought it was after all but still). What is the point in that? I have a problem with rare or pristine cars getting converted. There was a Gordon Keeble converted on Vintage Voltage recently and that turned my stomach, partially because of the rarity but also because it was not reversible. As they said in Fahrenheit 451: Books were banned because society demanded it I think these young wipper snappers are losing the ability to think for themsleves...

I hear this a lot about the "whole experience" and I am starting to think that is almost as subjective as what the best color is. The last issue of the German Spitfire club magazine had a long report about their first outing since 2019. 3 of the 5 pages was about all the break downs and DNFs. While we all know the beauty of these cars is that fact that you CAN still do the work on them I can also understand why many people would wonder why the lack of reliability is .. well.. desirable..? Don't get me wrong: One of the main reasons I bought my Spitfire(s) was because I could walk out and do 89.3% of the work myself. Roll the car out of the garage, roll it back in. But for me the main reason is I can make it MY car and make do things the way "I" want to. I am involved in a project with a classic car club and its goal is to attract young people. The elders go on and on about how the classic have "character" , "Soul" and that there ain't nothin' like 'em anymore... Which is all true and for some people may seem attractive (see my previous comments about Morris Dancing...) but kids these days... they do not realize how they have lost control. Now more than ever they are being told what to say, do and think and in a much subtler way than Orwell or Huxley ever thought. I may have mentioned my favorite TV show of all time is "The Prisoner". I started watching it about the same time I got my first Spitfire. At first I just liked the premise and a lot of the allegory went over my head. But look at it now: Constant surveillance because your phone knows EVERYTHING. People wear devices that track their firggin' heartbeat and "health". In the first episode the main character destroys a radio and before he can completely smash it to pieces a repair man comes along.... Google knew more about the latest flu epidemics than any other organization. I don't believe in government conspiracies and over regulation. I believe humanity as whole will make personal choice and freedom more difficult. In same ways that is a good thing. We in the West have been bleeding other countries dry for years. There ARE better ways of moving people around and how to power them. There ARE better ways to produce our food both from an environmental and health aspects. Heck, at the recent launch of the new Lotus "hyper SUV" they talked how it was designed by their "lifestyle" branch... I cringe and applaud at the same time because if it saves Lotus fine (like the Cayenne and Macan saved Porsche) but it says a lot about humanity as well. I told the Club that the project should about teaching these young people that they have their lives in their hands and to not give in to too much of the outside world. I don't think I got through to them (the elders) though... For me my Spitfire when I am done will be my magnum opus. And I probably will be the only one to like it like that! But it was MY choice. MY work. MY sweat and tears (and €€€€€) that went into after years of thought and I will use it to visit people I care about. Probably one of my last truly free decisions before some debilitating disease takes me! 👨‍⚕️ That is MY whole experience. What's yours?

Germans are jumping the border because France's fuel is a good 15-20 cents cheaper than here. Luxemburg as well.. even cheaper.. Switzerland has always been cheaper...

Il apparaît qu'il y a des problèmes avec Eureka... Si ils ne répondent pas aux messages e-mails ou par téléphone il faut peut-être contacter les autorités ....

Siamese or Persian? 😄

Nice!

Wow... your trunk/boot looks as clean as an operation theater!

The process I am familiar with is dipped, backed, galvanized and then primered... Expensive but supposedly bullet proof.

The guys in the Stuttgart club say if you never plan to drive in bad weather just blasting is probably good enough. If you want a daily driver dipping and plating is pretty much the way to go. Estimates here run about 3000EUR

Thanks1 I forget, is it possible to close off the airflow on the eyeball vents?

Always good to see!

The whole thing started with two things happening with the rabbits between my ears moving levers in a violent fashion: 1. Once I bought the hard top I remembered how my windows on my Spitfire would fog up when driving in the dead on a Michigan winter 2. I remember seeing the eyeball vents on the GT6 and thought it might help by redirecting the air to the windows. As I said I plan on using the car year-round and while I doubt I will have to deal with meter high snow here in Southwest Germany we get a lot of cold, wet days and the next worst thing to not being seen is not being able to see! A Smart/Micra fan should be pretty easy to come by. I really want to make it work with the existing switches I highly doubt my motor will create as much heat as the inline 6. Were these the standard Y pieces seen in the thread I linked? I plan on more or less rewiring everything to make it as daily usable as possible without deviating too much from the standard layout. Crazy things on my list: Rear window defogger for the hard top Heated (and possibly massage) for the seats Front/Rear fog DLR ight (see other thread ) Relays for the headlights LEDs where it is legal i.e. in the dash and for the heater controls etc etc. I won't be putting in a radio so I have that space for additional switches etc.

Is it me or aren't Heralds/Vitesses the cutest rally cars ever?!

Reviving this thread a bit... I saw in the this thread: different types of heaters etc. My dash will be pretty custom any way so I am thinking maybe it would be worth replicating the GT6 style dash and just adding ducting to the side of the heater box under the dash after all?

Why not just drive it over? I am pretty sure there is a leeway time of a few months to get it on Danish regs...

Oil slick... Oh wait that isn't funny on a Triumph! 😄

Yes the must be illuminated (well technically if they were not originally they don't have to be but it is easier if they meet modern standards... LEDs make that fairly easy...) I think I have seen that Land Rover switch somewhere... I will look for TKC5067 though..I have plenty of time!

Thanks! While I want things to match as close as possible if it is a choice between an original at 50 of your favorite currency and 10 for something that is darn close I would lean towards the latter... 😄

Do you mean the "side light" is the middle position of the standard switch in the middle of the dash? I would have to check if one of the reversing lights can be repurposed legally in Germany. I have seen a youtube video of this but I am fairly certain it is not 100% kosher. Thanks.. I actually have that book too. Thanks for reminding me! Do you know if the switch was a button or twist? I presume it lit up when on...

Thanks guys Technically LEDs are not allowed on the outside of the car except for rare exceptions. osram and Philips habe road legal H4 (and H7) replacements BUT they have to test every single flipping car and the have it approved and added to the documentation. now my car will have to go through a special inspection and approval as I am adding things that were not standard (but common) so I will try to add LEDs to the list and get approval. worst case is he says no! There are LED fog/drl and rear fog/brake lights that are approved…

Hi all, I have a problem… as I wait patiently for work to continue on my project my mind wanders.. and then wonders about solutions seeking problems. Seriously though, I have always liked fog lights. I live near a forest and it is not uncommon to have fog. Also our cars are so small anything to make them stand out is probably a good idea. My plan is to make my car a daily driver so “being seen” is bit of a concern of mine. I am also making more or less a custom dashboard so looking for good places to put switches while keeping things close to original (note: I will not be installing a radio so that space is free). Here in the EU a rear fog light has been mandatory since the early 80’s. Daytime running lights since the early 2000’s. Googling has not really brought up a lot of examples, mostly rally cars that are too big and bodacious. Can we please not have discussions on whether putting any of these things on a Spitfire is a good idea or not. As I have said often: there are actual people who actually enjoy Morris Dancing; to each his own! This is purely a thought exercise. Nothing more nothing less Regulations in Germany are over and above those of most EU countries but don’t let that worry you. Questions/musings/general inconsequential incoherent ramblings: 1. 1 I know the last batch of European Spitfires actually had rear fog lights. I think I have a pick in one of the books I have: Does anyone have a picture of one that was originally fitted? Ideally I would like to see the standard switch on the inside as well as any clues as to how it was wired. 2.2 Front fog lights were fairly common in the 60s and 70s. I would like something subtle and close to period but I am really open to anything. Any pictures appreciated with switches and ideas for wiring. 3. 3 Daytime running lights tend to be cold blue/white and could clash with the soft warm white/yellow our cars produce (until LEDs become legal where I live). Nevertheless I am looking at options. Please post. I promise not to judge. Thank you all in advance!

I cycle pretty much everywhere under 10k/10 miles... I tell my kids over and over and over "Just cuz you have the right of way does NOT make you right"