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Re: new owner

To: "Diane E. Pataki" <dep@dri.edu>, "spitlist" <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: new owner
From: Laura.G@141.com (Laura Gharazeddine)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:32:29 -0700
Welcome Diane! 

And congratulations on your new baby!

Laura G. and "Nigel" (1978 1500 BRG)-in so. Cal
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Diane E. Pataki <dep@dri.edu>
To: spitlist <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 4:16 PM
Subject: new owner


> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've just purchased a 66 spit!  I'd been vaguely contemplating starting
> an MGA, sprite, or TR3 restoration as my sig other completed his MGB.
> Lo and behold a spit appeared in the local paper, and stayed there for
> quite awhile.  I was unfamiliar with spits, but finally our curiousity
> got the better of us and we checked it out.  Turned out to be all
> original with no rust, although it hadn't been in use since 1987 and was
> in dire need of TLC.  Miraculously, it still runs!  A quick repair of a
> carb leak, and we were able to drive it home, but soon realized that the
> transmission is shot and it needs a new flywheel, at the very least.
> We'll find out the rest as we fish the engine out of 33 years of
> grease...
> 
> I'm sure we'll have lots of questions.
> 
> cheers,
> Diane, Will, and the MGB
> Las Vegas, NV
> 
> dep@dri.edu
> 
> 
> 


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