Originally Posted by Mark22
Dave was killed in a F-86 Sabre accident many years ago perhaps 15-20.
Yes it was 1987 (it says here). Gosh, that long ago...?
Originally Posted by Mark22
The gentlman you might be thinking of is Mike Nixon of Vintage V12.
Also Dwight Thorn in California and a chap called Tor (?) Sandvik at JRS in Minnesota (?), who was the late John Sandberg's engineer, both do Merlin rebuilds in the US, largely for the Reno racing market I think. Not sure that they machine new parts though... Wasn't there another thread on "new Spitfires" on here a while back?
Pretty sure that Mike Nixon did the Merlin that ended up in The Fighter Collection's most recent Hurricane restoration (now emigrated to Canada!).