New racer for Reno...?

[RAD2LTR]

Re: New racer for Reno...?

I think a late Spit could go pretty well. Powered with a Griffon, with the radiators shaved for a boil off, could be quick. I know the late ones such as a Mk 14 was alleged to go 450+ in stock form. The late Seafires such as the Mk 46/47s were in the same range as well. If they could do that in stock form, with a little cleaning up, they could be onto something.

Will

[johnnyrace]

Re: New racer for Reno...?

It would be interesting to see...the Spit is flying in fairly large numbers so maybe someone would pony up the dough to try it...but with a recent sale of a Spit at a Bonhams auction reaching nearly 3 million dollars it may be cheaper to make two or three September Fury clones !!!

[T J Johansen]

Re: New racer for Reno...?

Unfortunately the Spitfire 22 in this thread will never be seen in Reno.




Found it on a modeling forum. They even came up with a couple of alternative schemes.





And here is a Mk. XII which came from a different poster.



T J

[deepsky]

Re: New racer for Reno...?

I like the green scheme the best.

[3dWrightBrother]

Re: New racer for Reno...?

That might make me dig out my model stuff again
Russ

[Low-n-Slow]

Re: New racer for Reno...?

I think a late Spit could go pretty well. Powered with a Griffon, with the radiators shaved for a boil off, could be quick. ...Will

Hmmm, yeah - thought I had drawn one up a couple years ago:

Cut down canopy with turtledeck, boil off cooling, general clean-up. Always liked that dark yellow used on the prototypes and figured that on the underside with a dark/light blue camo topside in the standard RAF pattern would make a nice paint job.

cheers
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