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Re: Yeeeeeeee-ha!

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Subject: Re: Yeeeeeeee-ha!
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 07:55:33 +0100
In article <200108311227.AA230621408@141.com>, Laura Gharazeddine
<Laura.G@141.com> writes
>>An eight hour drive in any car is too much for the average human 
>
>being.

>I've never had a car with power, cruise control or any of that 
>other stuff, so I really don't know-have nothing to compare...
>
>I was thinking of driving as far as Santa Cruz to spend the night 
>at my sisters-but thats 7 hours! At least then I would arrive in 
>San Francisco in daylight, instead of after dark.

Seven hours without a break is going to be *very* tiring...

>>>Well, Nigel's engine is a little too tweaked to be "as they came 
>>>off the production line"... but it is the original engine. Of 
>>>course there's the Weber and the oil cooler, but at least it's 
>
>not 
>>>some sort of engine switch. (Augh!)
>>
>>These were not uncommon modifications carried out when the cars 
>
>were
>>still being produced - and the good thing is that they are easily
>>reversed if you wanted to go back to a "concourse" car.   Engines 
>
>and
>>gearboxes are a different matter...
>
>One of my friends who has judged concours at VTR in years past 
>said that I could put my car in (VTR) concours as it is!

Wow!   We seem to have different definitions of the word.   To me, it
means, "exactly as it was originally seen on display in a car show-
room".

>>I wonder if the Spitfire Database ought to start tracking which 
>
>cars
>>have been modified (and how), and which cars are original?
>
>I think that would be very interesting. 
>
>You know, a friend of mine who had his 1964 LHD Spitfire converted 
>to RHD took some criticism/heat for that from the powers that 
>be-and yet, it seems ok to yank the riginal engine and drop in 
>something else?...

Odd, isn't it?

>>>I wonder what will be next-because (altogether now!) "It *never* 
>>>ends! There's *always* something!"

Yesterday's "something" was finding a small puddle of brake fluid in the
footwell. :-(

ATB
-- 
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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