My first car. 1970 US Spec MK III Spitfire. Flared wheel arches, 7 in. American Alloys, 50 Series BF Goodrich tyres, roll bar and MK IV top frame so it folded over roll bar. Engine is .030 over, 11-1 Venolia pistons, stage 3 cam, bronze tipped aluminium pushrods, dual valve springs, chrome moly and titanium valve retainers/keepers, four branch exhaust, dual Weber DCOE 40's, Mallory dual point distributor. Don't know how much horsepower it produced but would pull 7,500 rpm in top with none OD transmission and stock 4.11 ring and pinion. And it would rev past that. Once at a autocross in Glenwood Springs Colorado the first corner was fairly close to the start. I could not decide whether to shift to second or carry on in first and shift after the corner. Anyway I just kept my foot in it and when I backed off to take the corner had a brief look at the tach. The needle was pointing straight down at the RPM X 100. I don't know what RPM that was but it was a bunch. Needless to say I used to drive it very hard. Blew it up once, did 160 miles in 1 hour 45 minutes on Interstate-80 driving from Rock Springs Wyoming towards Laramie Wyoming in the middle of the night. 6000 plus RPM for that long was a bit much and it destroyed a piston. Spent the night sleeping in the Spit in a gas station parking lot. Limped home to Denver on three cylinders with lots of blowby the next morning. This was years ago 1978/79 I have moved on and have spent the last 24 years overseas working in the oil field. I still have the Spit though, it is sitting at my parents house. Sorry the photo's are so poor but they are scanned from twenty year old photo's. Sincerly, Donald Bell