Had some good pieces of luck this weekend. I've managed to acquire two sets of original white sun visors! ! set in good condition for an early Mk3 Spitfire with the correct brackets and 1 set in not quite so good condition for the Spitfire 4 MK1 & Mk2 again with the correct brackets! Been looking for these for ages then two come along at once! I paid very reasonable prices too :-)

The 3rd piece of good luck was that I've acquired some Spitfire Mk1/Mk2 hardtop brackets from a very nice chap who was willing to let me have his in exchange for my old MK3 Brackets. The reason behind this is that my MK3 has a Williams & Pritchard fastback roof (My MK3 is the Conifer Green one in the centre - pic taken at the TSSC International in 2009) and this has replaced my Works factory hardtop. So I want to fit the Factory top to FC316 and to do that I needed some MK1 brackets:-) Only problem now is that the Hardtop was only released in December 1963 and given that my Car is a 1962 build she doesn't have the fixing holes in the rear deck - not sure how I'm going to get around this as I def. do not want to drill into the rear deck - Originality is going to be the watchword for this restoration! (well as much as is feasible!).