{"id":665,"date":"2018-06-17T08:52:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T11:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werner.med.br\/w143\/?page_id=665"},"modified":"2020-04-14T22:13:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T01:13:11","slug":"triumph-spitfire-50-spark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/triumph-spitfire-50-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Triumph Spitfire #50 – Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1964 Triumph Spitfire<\/strong> 
Pilots: D. Hobbs, R. Slotemaker 
Team: Standard Triumph<\/em> 
Race: 21st overall (8th in P class) at Le Mans in 1964 
Spark - S1410 (resin) <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Published 07\/12\/17<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Triumph introduced the sporty Spitfire in 1962, designed by Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti. The car was largely based upon the Triumph Herald saloon, but with a shortened chassis to improve handling and make the car more responsive. The engine was a Triumph in-house built 1147 cm\u00b3 inline-4 with 2 valves per cylinder and fed by twin SU carburetors. The Mark I (also known as Spitfire 4) wasn\u2019t exactly an easy car to drive, being known for violent over-steer if pushed too hard, but at the time was considered a \u201ccomfortable\u201d sports car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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That’s what makes Sparks such nice models – look at the plethora of small details. And best of all, everything is a separate part!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The Mark I version was produced from 1962 to 1964, being a relatively popular car. For the 24 Heures du Mans<\/em> of 1964, Triumph had a factory team, with two Spitfires in the race. Car #49 had to abandon, but this #50<\/a> (chassis #X985) managed 21st place overall. Another oddball for my garage, this time from Spark, with the habitual very good level of craftsmanship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Spitfire
Despite the huge difference in color, both are in “British Racing Green” – yes, BRG is passive of interpretation by the manufacturer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
And this Spitfire, along with the Nash-Healey Sport Coup\u00e9<\/a>, is specially important to me. That’s because both were a birthday gift from my dearest wife. Yep, my wife ROCKS \ud83e\udd70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PS: The Nash-Healey looks really weird with bubble cockpit, doesn’t it? At first glance it looks out of scale. But it’s not, the car really has some (very?) weird proportions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1964 Triumph Spitfire Pilots: D. Hobbs, R. Slotemaker Team: Standard Triumph Race: 21st overall (8th in P class) at Le Mans in 1964 Spark – S1410 (resin) Published 07\/12\/17 Triumph introduced the sporty Spitfire in 1962, designed by Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti. The car was largely based upon the Triumph Herald saloon, but with a … Continue reading “Triumph Spitfire #50 – Spark”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-665","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10045,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/665\/revisions\/10045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}