- 41. Re: gripe about Vicky Brit (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:33:06 EST
- My Vicky Brit horror (well, maybe not horror) story - I ordered the little rubber thing on which the hood rests, cost $3 - what I get an entire hood hinge, cost $65. Plus the UPS charge for this huge
- /html/spitfires/1999-02/msg00545.html (8,425 bytes)
- 42. My Spitfire Story (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 21:02:41 EST
- My story started in the beginning of the Summer when I was 16. (1997) I live in NJ, where the driving age is 17, and I had been bitten by the car bug earlier that year, as the prospect of driving hit
- /html/spitfires/1999-01/msg00014.html (11,143 bytes)
- 43. Re: 150 CD's (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:51:10 EST
- You guys are lucky. I am not married. In fact, I am 17 and living at home. I do have a mother though. She hates my car. She hates my Dad's E-type. She hates my Dad's Jag Mark II. She hates the smell
- /html/spitfires/1999-01/msg00111.html (9,187 bytes)
- 44. Re: Me again! (Getting tired of me yet?!) (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:15:49 EST
- Hmmm. I have a 1974, with the primitive emissions stuff. Probably not what you are looking for. It will give you a nice power tradeoff, which is sort of the same. And I would LOVE to get my hands on
- /html/spitfires/1999-01/msg00214.html (6,893 bytes)
- 45. Re: Spitfire Diff. Noise Question (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:21:58 EST
- I have a similar problem, and I am also unsure whether it is a normal noise, or if somehting is wrong. The car has always had the noise, at least since I have had it, and it is just a moderately loud
- /html/spitfires/1999-01/msg00215.html (8,328 bytes)
- 46. Re: BTU rating of electric garge heaters?!?! (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:20:34 EST
- I actually have a 100,000 BTU heater in my garage. My dad is a general contracter, and his workers use it on their job sites sometimes. It gets our 3 car garage really really hot. Like a sauna. Consi
- /html/spitfires/1999-01/msg00432.html (7,987 bytes)
- 47. Electrical Extravaganza (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:13:39 EST
- I had a crazy electrical adventure this week. My alternator had been making obnoxious noise for a while. The bearings were apparently shot, so I took it to be rebuilt. It was worn out beyond rebuildi
- /html/spitfires/1999-01/msg00723.html (7,689 bytes)
- 48. Re: Vinyl (or other) Upholstery (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 00:04:49 EST
- If a bunch of you guys are interested in buying upholstery, then this is an idea. On my dad's e-type list, about a dozen guys needed interior kits. they all got together and contacted a supplier as a
- /html/spitfires/1998-12/msg00233.html (7,912 bytes)
- 49. why is my car stopping? (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:54:58 EST
- It seems that more often than not, when I come to a stop, my car stalls. Of course I am pushing the clutch all the way in. Unless I put it in neutral as I come up to a stop, the engine slows and stal
- /html/spitfires/1998-12/msg00484.html (6,854 bytes)
- 50. Why is my car stopping - PART II (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:21:56 EST
- Sorry, I forgot to write this - My car is a 74 Spit 1500, w/ a single zenith stromberg. It is pretty much stock, except for a rebuild, which shouldn't affect it that much. Or at least i dont think so
- /html/spitfires/1998-12/msg00485.html (6,377 bytes)
- 51. Re: Carburetor Question (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:14:30 EST
- I would check the '74 carb out if I were you. I had a similar situation w/ my '74 ZS, and the reason it was spitting gas out was that the pickup from the fuel bowl was clogged. I forget if I just cle
- /html/spitfires/1998-12/msg00660.html (7,046 bytes)
- 52. Hot or not? (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:07:32 EST
- When driving my Spit for the first time this summer, I kept pulling over to the side of the road whenever the temperature gauge reached its max, which was roughly every 5 minutes. I couldn't figure o
- /html/spitfires/1998-11/msg00367.html (7,563 bytes)
- 53. thanks for the hot help (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:50:19 EST
- I imagine it is indeed the voltage stabilizer. That would explain the time when I ran out of gas with the guage showing 1/4 full. I pulled one while i was at the junkyard today. If that one doens't w
- /html/spitfires/1998-11/msg00437.html (6,469 bytes)
- 54. I'm new and I need parts (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:28:37 EDT
- I am 17 years old and a '74 Spitfire 1500 owner. My father shelled out the cash for it a year ago August. After working on it all year, I got it on the road in August. Unfortunately, 155 miles later,
- /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00521.html (7,410 bytes)
- 55. Keys (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:34:53 EDT
- I have looked everywhere for a place where I can get my 74 Spitfire key copied, including England. No one carries the right blank. I only have one key and I would like to make some copies. Does anyon
- /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00527.html (7,321 bytes)
- 56. Electrical maladies (score: 1)
- Author: SpitfireKP@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:11:21 EST
- When I went to start my car this morning, it wouldn't catch. This could be expected, b/c it was parked outside, and it normally takes a few tries. However, after a couple of minutes of nothing, I sta
- /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00794.html (6,935 bytes)
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