1979 Triumph Spitfire Project

(Written on 1/16/2022) In 1979 I was 17, and like many young people loved sports cars. There was something about a small two seat convertible that screamed "let's have some fun". My older sister had an MGB that my father had helped her restore. If I could have had any car, it would have been a Triumph Spitfire. I just loved the look of the car. But I really didn't have the money to buy a decent car, so I read the used car classified ads religiously hoping in vain for a miracle. My dream Spitfire didn't show up, but a great deal came along on a Sunbeam Alpine. Actually it was two Sunbeam Alpines, a 1964 in bad condition and a 63 in worse. I had never heard of a Sunbeam Alpine, but the ad said that it was a British convertible sports car, and the price was right. Now my sister's MGB had met an untimely death when the wiring harness shorted out and the car burned up in a parking lot. So when I showed the ad to my father and asked him to look at the S...

(Written on 1/16/2022) Welcome to my blog. OK, I wasn't sure why they call these "blogs" so I just looked it up. It's short for weblog. What I actually wanted was a website to document rebuilding a 1979 Triumph Spitfire I purchased. But I didn't see an easy way to do that, and blogs are easy. So, a blog it is. I'm going to back date the "published" date so they indicate when I should have written them. The date they are actually written will be in parenthesis at the end of the post. The Spitfire was purchased in August of 2020, and it's now January 2022. I decided I better get going on documenting the rebuild. Whenever I do any projects I take a lot of pictures. Typically these are texted to my family and close friends who are simply enthralled by the minute details of how I built this or fixed that. 😆 I'm surprised they don't delete my number from their cell phones. Capturing the rebuild details here will allow them to feign ...