"Brits On The Lake" - Port Perry, Ontario. August 2024 There's a bookstand beside the right rear wing. There's a 4" thick binder on it with laminated pages documenting the whole build. It's kind of a spitfire in name only in some ways. Engine is a Nissan DET20 twin cam. He can "set" the horsepower from the drivers seat, anywhere from a low of 150hp to a high of 385hp. (Says he keeps it around 200 for street driving.) Transmission and Rear diff are from a Lexus. Front suspension is original. He says the Nissan engine is lighter than the original cast iron 1500. But the added weight of  the turbo and other ancillaries brings it back up to almost the same front axle weight. Measured 50-50 weight distribution with no driver.  I like the build. I hate it when someone sticks a small block chevy or ford engine in one and cuts a massive hole in the bonnet for the air cleaner or supercharger to stick up in your face. Bonnet down, the power bulge is a bit bigger than a GT6. You'd hardly know it's heavily modified other than the massive tires. (He kept 4 bolt rims but I doubt the hubs are original spitfire.)

I don’t think people here are purists at all. 😄

Over time, I owned 3 Minis. '73, '76 and '78. Often as a second car.  Before the '73, I had a 1966 Hillman Minx. 1970 Austin 1800. More recently the Spitfires.  It's been a long attraction to LBC's. 

Or the new AI .

If you say it loud enough and often enough it becomes the new reality.

It’s Moro blue. Metallic with a bit of pearl too.  Not easy to match the lie of the flake, even in perfect conditions. It’ll look worse if rattle canned!  

Rattle cans???

Nick ,  TOTALY AGREED . Hence the posts .

Thanks Nick  Yup

Probably should start a new thread for this and stop spamming Colin’s modified Spitfire thread…. The short version though…. We are not purists here.