Brad Fornal wrote:
>
> VeeEight your Spridget
> I won an interesting magazine off of eBay (your "beware, you may get
> screwed in cyberspace" community) the other week. It is a May 1961 issue
> of Cars, The Automotive Magazine. In it is an article entitled 4 great
> engine swaps. The most interesting of the 4 was a 270 c.i. 'Vette engine
> with the automatic powerglide slipped into a Bugeye.
I was *lucky* enough to ride in a 283 ci powered Sprite many years back.
3 speed tranny, wheelies in first, smoke the tires in 2nd, go like a rocket in
third.
The car lasted almost a whole week.
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Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
United We Stand
http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
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