> -----Original Message-----
> From: Atwell Haines [mailto:karbuff@optonline.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 9:07 PM
> To: Joe Curry; Terry Thompson
> Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Spit carb part & an unrelated story
>
>
>
> At 05:26 PM 1/24/2001 -0700, Joe Curry wrote:
>
> >Doesn't a Fiat Spyder have a rear engine????? :)
>
> The 850 Spyder did (my brother-in-law had one!) the 124
> (later 2000) Spyder
> was front-engined.
>
> But maybe Terry's onlooker was thinking of a Corvair Monza
> Spyder? (I had
> one of those. I confess.)
>
> Atwell (Now it can be told!)
>
And what is wrong with having a Spyder? I had a Spyder
convertible some 25+ years ago, sold it when Uncle Sam
sent me to the UK. In the year and a half I had one, I
never saw another. Within a couple of weeks of arriving
in the UK, I took a bus to London to attend the Motor
Show. On the way back home through London, I looked out
the window and saw a Spyder convert. tooling around.
After I returned to the States, I ran into the guy I sold
the car to. Unfortunately, 4 years of snow and salt and a
teenaged driver had destroyed the car. I wish I still had
it.
Cheers,
Doug Mitchell
'73 Spitfire 1500
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