Yea Larry I thought the plate on the front looks cool too! I could always
wait till the temp rises and then remove. Sure would be easier than
polishing the pitted grill I just took off : )
Lin
62 California Sprite "Pinky"
http://www.freewebs.com/lgrunthaner/
On 6/28/06, Larry B. Macy, Ph.D. <macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> No leave the plate there, it looks cool, prolly won't run cool tho ;-)
> Congrats on getting a running Pinky! Have fun for the summer, do the
> suspension in the wnter.
>
> Larry
>
> On Jun 28, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Linda Grunthaner wrote:
>
> Yes it's true Pinky is street legal and I drove her yesterday and will
> again
> today after some tweaking with the blinkers, my arms are getting tired of
> hand signals, don't know how they did it in our grand parents day. Well
> this
> is what I think of my first extended road test/drive. I love the engine
> real
> spunky, yes that's the best way to describe it, spunky. Although I know
> Frank said I need a new front passenger side shock I still didn't feel the
> car stick to the curves like I did on my 68 Spitfire. Now the tires I have
> are new 8yr olds but no Michelin's which is what I put on my Spitfire so
> perhaps new rubber like the Michelin's will make her stick to the corners
> better. Plus I had the Spitfire suspension completely redone costing me a
> small fortune so perhaps I'll start looking into doing the same but this
> time I'll do it myself. Other than that I felt like that gal on the cover
> of
> Jay's book (which I have a copy too) who is racing her red MKII against a
> guy in a green Bugeye.
>http://home.ix.netcom.com/~type79/<http://home.ix.netcom.com/%7Etype79/>(see
>picture on
> bottom). When I get to work I'll scan the cover and post it on my web site
> so you see what I mean. BTW she was winning ; )
>
> Check out my update pics and yes yes I'm removing the licence plate from
> the
> front of the radiator so she won't over heat : )
> Linda
> 62 California Sprite "Pinky"
>
> http://www.freewebs.com/lgrunthaner/
>
>
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> macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
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