Where to look for a classic...

Have you joined a club yet? Both Club Triumph and the Triumph Sports Six Club cater for the Spit and have monthly classifieds - you'll need to be a member to view the Sports Six stuff

Excellent thanks for the links - may well go down to Hook next week - is that Hook Hants or the one in Surrey nr Tolworth?

Hook Hants - The Crooked Billet pub, about 8:30 ish- look for Triumphs in the car park at the rear, if it's nice we'll be sat outside :-)

It's there somewhere... You basically tell it to email you when it finds something that matches your entered keywords.

-- Howard Rose

Is that the pub on the A30 between Phoenix Green and Hook? if so it's about 10 minutes away!

Yup that's the one!

Yes you can do that on eBay in a number of ways - set up a favourite search in a category in "my ebay" and tell it to tell you everytime something is listed there - you can set up loads of searches and it's very useful. ebay will email you for upto a year

Last year this time I was on the lookout for the same i.e. preferred Spit but was willing to consider a Midget. The MG guys might not agree but if you have a hankering for a Spit then don't even look at Midgets. They are much more different than you think. A friend of mine has a midget (same year and in fact same engine as my Spit) but having gone the Spit route there is really nothing which makes me regret choosing it over the Midget.

Apart from the better looks (imo) so many easy Spitfire jobs would be a nightmare on the little Midget and the fact you can get overdrive on the Spit is a bonus too.

Good luck with your search.

PS - I would second the recommendation to join the TSSC. When you join ask them for a Spitfire buyers guide - they have a nice handy one to carry around with you including everything you should cover on a Spit test drive.

"Doug" realised it was Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:54:05

Excellent suggestion. Do join a club before you buy a car.

Or download one now from

Actually going to see one later this week - probably a bit too soon to be able to obtain the official buyers guide - another poster linked to the

Jeremy realised it was Wed, 30 Jun 2004

Read it. It's written by a Spitfire owner, not a club. Do a search and you'll find more buyer guides all over the web. There is no 'official' guide.

Its similar. The TSSC may be a club but I don't think that is a negative point - the club is a collective of lots of owners.

Heres a link to the club guide

"Doug" realised it was Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:11:44

I'm not saying anything negative about any club or their buyer's guides. I advise any prospective Spitfire buyer to become a club member first, before going out to buy a car. Very few actually do it in that order, but most of them admit I was right afterwards...

Good guide, if a bit limited.

You're right of course. I joined the TSSC a few days after buying my Spit. As it turned out I got a good car in the end but I could have avoided some of the jobs I've had to do since with a little extra foresight.