Description
I bought this Spitfire two years ago from the previous owner who, due to health reasons, was unable to complete its restoration. Up until that point all necessary bodywork repairs had been completed and it had been fully refinished professionally in 2K primer and Mimosa Yellow, the original colour. A bodyshop paint booth walk-around video is available.
Over the last two years I have spent a considerable amount of time and money in order to complete its comprehensive restoration. Hopefully the photos I have posted, the last seven of which show the list of new parts fitted (not including the vast number of new nuts, bolts, washers, and other fixings used), go some way to show how detailed the restoration has been.
Restoration highlights include the following:
• Fully restored bodywork
• Professionally refinished in 2K Mimosa Yellow, including hardtop
• Underside of bonnet, vertical bulkhead section, lower section of outer sills and rear valance painted in U-pol Raptor 2K tinted protective coating
• Original dash panels reveneered in American Black Walnut (the timber species originally used by Triumph), varnished, and waxed to match the original satin finish. The rear of the dash panels were sprayed to match the original colour and sheen
• Seats completely restored with the frames and runners stripped and chemically cleaned; frames repainted and rebuilt using new seat back webbings, seat and back cushions, hessian pads and boards for the cushions, side stiffening boards, and recovered in beige vinyl, the original colour
• Interior trim: new interior trim includes door panels; door cappings; rear wheelarch quarter panels; new vinyl to the windscreen surround, A- & B-posts, lower crash pads, and rear wheel arches; gloveboxes; and dash top crash pad cover skin
• Hardtop: the bare painted hardtop has benefited from a new headlining and all new rubber seals (with the exception of the quarter light seals)
• J-type overdrive professionally reconditioned
I have kept as close as possible to the specification as it left the factory (the BMIHT Heritage Certificate will be included in the sale). Since the cars left the factory as either a soft top or hardtop variant, and KFC 910N was the latter, it does not have a soft top.
Although registered in 1975, KFC 910N was built in November 1974 and was one of the very first 1500 Spitfires off the production line, its commission number being FH75068.
