Birmingham, AL
1976 Triumph Spitfire 1500
1976 Spitfire 1500, runs and drives, honest little car
The details
- Mileage
- 64,000 mi
- Transmission
- manual
- Drivetrain
- rwd
- Fuel
- gas
- Body
- Convertible
- Title
- clean
- VIN
- FM40001U
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From the seller
Two seats and about as simple as a car gets. The 1500 runs well and the overdrive works. Sills were replaced properly in 2019 with receipts, and the bonnet fits - which on a Spitfire is not a given. There is surface rust in the boot floor and it is photographed. Hood is a few years old and does not leak. A perfect first classic: everything on it can be fixed in a driveway with ordinary tools.
An independent read
The description is unusually honest for an old British roadster - it names the rust that's there, says the sills were done with receipts, and mentions the bonnet gap, which is exactly the stuff most sellers hide. That said, the photos are all the same generic side outline with no interior, engine bay, underside or odometer shot, so nothing in the description is actually confirmed by an image. On price, you're paying classic-car money rather than transport money, and these are known for chassis rot at the outriggers and rear suspension mounts, plus swing-axle rear ends that get twitchy at the limit. Honestly, for a sixteen-year-old this is the wrong car: no airbags, no crumple zones, two seats, and it will need fiddling most months even when it's healthy. If someone in the family genuinely wants a project classic to learn on in the driveway, it's a reasonable candidate - as a daily driver to school, it isn't.
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