Independent · Owner-contributed · Open to corrections

Every surviving
Spitfire, logged
by chassis number.

A registry of Triumph Spitfires tracked by commission and VIN number — model by model, club by club. Built from what owners send in, and corrected by the people who know the cars best.

Registry Tag · Live count

Spitfires currently registered

314,152Total built, all models

0%Of production documented

The Registry

Five model eras, one running tally.

The database is organized the way Triumph built the car — by production series. Each era has its own commission number range, its own quirks, and its own count of survivors.

01 · MK1

Spitfire 4

1962 – 1965 · 1,147cc

Built45,573

Registered0

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02 · MK2

Spitfire 4 Mk2

1965 – 1967 · 1,147cc

Built37,409

Registered0

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03 · MK3

Spitfire Mk3

1967 – 1970 · 1,296cc

Built65,320

Registered0

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04 · MKIV

Spitfire MkIV

1971 – 1974 · 1,296cc

Built70,021

Registered0

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05 · 1500

Spitfire 1500

1973 – 1981 · 1,493cc

Built95,829

Registered1

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FM SERIES

1500, North America · 1973–1978

A separate sequence opened in 1973 to bring the 1500 to the US and Canada while the rest of the world was still buying MkIVs.

FH SERIES

1500, Rest of world · 1975–1980

Continues the numbering Triumph started with the MkIV. Used on every pre-VIN 1500 outside North America.

VIN SERIES

1500, Worldwide · 1979–1981

Cars built under the modern VIN system, in serial order — model-year labels do not always track cleanly with the sequence.

1FM SERIES

1500, North America · 1974–1975

A small number of North-America-bound cars assembled at Senneffe in Belgium.

The Car

A Herald underneath, a Michelotti body on top.

Origin, 1962

Giovanni Michelotti drew the Spitfire around the Triumph Herald's frame, drivetrain, and suspension. It arrived in October 1962 as Triumph's answer to the small British sports car class, going head to head with the MG Midget and its rivals.

What set it apart was the Herald-derived independent rear suspension and roll-up windows — comfort and handling usually reserved for cars costing a good deal more.

"Same silhouette, three series, one long-running argument about cornering stability."

Engines, across two decades

The Spitfire began with a 1,147cc four borrowed from the Herald line. The Mk3 grew it to 1,296cc with a redesigned head. After the MkIV, the block was stroked out to 1,493cc — though later emissions equipment, especially on US-market cars, quietly ate into the gains.

Michelotti updated the design again for the 1971 MkIV, keeping the silhouette but modernizing the details and reworking the rear suspension for better cornering manners.

Database Statistics

Documented against what left the factory.

Registered totals are a fraction of production — by design, this project only counts cars someone has actually stepped forward to log.

Spitfires registered against factory production, by model era
Model	Built	Registered	Share
Mk1	45,573	0	0%
Mk2	37,409	0	0%
Mk3	65,320	0	0%
MkIV	70,021	0	0%
1500	95,829	1	0%
Total	314,152	1	0%

Live from the registry · last entry added August 14, 2026

~20%

Estimated share of production
still on the road today

A marque-community estimate, not a figure this registry can measure.

How It's Built

Contributed by owners. Corrected by owners.

This isn't a factory record — it's owner submissions and club rosters, reviewed before they go live, with all the mess that implies.

Data gets stale

Entries come from owners and clubs around the world and can lag behind reality — cars change hands, get parted out, or vanish long before anyone updates a roster. Spot an error and you can file a correction against the entry.

Model year is judgment

Where manufacturing date and first registration disagree, registration wins — dealers often re-badged unsold cars to the next model year, so the factory sequence is treated as the tiebreaker. Both dates are stored either way.

Modified cars still count

V6 and V8 swaps, the GT6-engined "Spit 6" conversion — all included, as long as the car still carries its original commission number. Lose the plate and the entry moves to the archive.

Own one? Get it on the books.

About 1 new cars join the registry every month. Submit a chassis or commission number, model, and whatever history you know. Your name and location stay private unless you choose to publish them, and your email is never shown.

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