Brass dash plate
Rectangle SCCA National Champion plate, US
1500's. (see a
photo)
"SCCA National Champion 1965, 68, 70, 71, 72,
73"
Brash dash plaque
Round SCCA metal badge.
"Triumph Spitfire, Sports Car Club of
America, National Road Racing Champion
F-Production 1969 and 1970"
Brash dash plaque GT6
Round SCCA metal badge.
"Triumph GT6, Sports Car Club of America,
National Road Racing Champion E-Production 1969
and 1970"
British Leyland "house" badge
Square badge on bonnet next to bonnet latch. Fitted on both sides up to Oct. 1970-1975. Oct.75-1976 on driver's side only. No longer fitted after 1976.
"Spitfire
1500" Bonnet Decal
1500 decal placement at bottom right edge of the bonnet (these measurements are based on decals I believe to be original, let me know if your measurements are drastically different)
Click here to download
a vector file of this decal.
"Triumph
Spitfire 1500" Boot Lid Decal
1500 decal placement at bottom right edge of the boot (these measurements are based on decals I believe to be original, let me know if your measurements are drastically different)
Click here to download
a vector file of this decal.
Bonnet Letters
Mk I-III used chrome individual letters across the leading edge of the bonnet. Placement dictated by factory drilled holes.
Tire
Pressure Decal
Tire pressures on a decal located on
passenger
side door jamb on 1500 only? Spitfires. (see a closeup
photo)
"RAF" Bonnet badge
Bonnet medallion on 1970 North American only? Spitfires. (see
a photo)
Placement dictated by factory drilled holes.
US Emissions decal under bonnet (76-80) (see
a photo)
Rectangle decal describing emissions, tuning
etc.
European Emissions decal under bonnet (1500) (see
a photo)
Rectangle decal describing emissions, tuning
etc.
European decal under bonnet (see
a photo)
Square badge on bonnet next to bonnet latch. Fitted on driver's side.
Emissions decal on door post
Black rectangular decal with white lettering
fitted on left door post.
"Vehicle emissions control information, This
vehicle conforms to US E.P.A. regulations
applicable to 19XX model year new motor
vehicles"
Battery
warning
White rectangular decal with red lettering
fitted on firewall behind battery.
"When using boost start observe polarity of battery. Supply voltage must not exceed 19V otherwise damage to the ignition will occur"
Commission Plates
Early Plate: photo located here: photo.
Later US Plate: photo
The Commission plate is most often located under the car's hood (bonnet) on left side of the body our inside the door jamb of US cars.Body Number Plate
Located here: photo.
Another (on a later car): photo
The body number plate is located under the car's hood (bonnet)
Here is a pdf of the plate to scale: pdf
Engine Number
Located here (on a 1500): photo
For more information about engine numbers click here
Frame Number (coming soon)
Differential Number (coming soon)
Side
Stripes
This page discusses colors and locations of
factory and non-factory stripes. Also shows
other stripes and color schemes.
Logos
This page has downloadable Spitfire &
Triumph logos
Brass
Plaque Cleaning (outside
link)
Paul's page explaining how he cleaned his
tarnished plaques. He also shows another SCCA
National Champion plate on 1980 Spitfires. It
has much larger lettering and dates of titles go
to 1978. If you also have this plaque, let Paul
know.
Triumph
ID Plates (outside link)
This page shows ID plates that
Rarebits4classics sells. It shows close up
photos of plates from 1958-68 of many Triumph
models.
Tax
Disks (outside link)
Printable British Tax Disks from
1955-1972
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