- 1. Spitfires and sunny days (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 09:22:06 -0500 (EST)
- There's only one thing wrong with owning a Spitfire on a sunny day like today. Mine just left with my daughter behind the wheel!!! bill -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wol
- /html/spitfires/2000-04/msg00004.html (6,705 bytes)
- 2. Re: San Antonio Weather Report (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:37:39 -0400 (EDT)
- According to Patrick Baize: Wimps..... It's cloudy and around 55 here in NEPA and the top has been off for two weeks already. bill -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves b
- /html/spitfires/2000-04/msg00126.html (8,112 bytes)
- 3. Re: Running on battery only (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 09:24:28 -0400 (EDT)
- According to Irv Korey: 4 hours!! I drove mine for almost two weeks and 300 miles before the battery ran down enough to not turn the starter. Of course, at this point I was 70 miles from home. No pro
- /html/spitfires/2000-04/msg00224.html (9,076 bytes)
- 4. Re: San Diego Weather Report (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:18:55 -0400 (EDT)
- According to WyzeGuy555@aol.com: In 72, when I got out of the army to go to school, I drove a new MGB. I don't remember how often (or if!) I put the top up, but I fondly recall coming out of class an
- /html/spitfires/2000-04/msg00227.html (8,420 bytes)
- 5. Re: Running on battery only (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:06:28 -0400 (EDT)
- According to Marcus Schaper: Yeah, but the "getting it started" part is the killer. I knew a guy in Germany who kept a second battery in his house (and we're talking about typical Mercedes Diesel bat
- /html/spitfires/2000-04/msg00233.html (8,646 bytes)
- 6. Re: Rag Top Plastic Window (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:07:09 -0400 (EDT)
- According to Laura Gharazeddine: Mine was rather interesting. When I got the car last year it was perfectly clear, pretty good considering its a 79. I assume this was because the PO never took the ha
- /html/spitfires/2000-04/msg00261.html (9,059 bytes)
- 7. Re: Commercial on TX TV last night (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:35:40 -0400 (EDT)
- According to Patrick Bowen: It will be a cold day in hell when I use the name BMW to describe my Spitfire. bill -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves bill@cs.uofs.edu | a
- /html/spitfires/2000-04/msg00328.html (9,230 bytes)
- 8. Re: Gearbox filler plug? (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:07:17 -0400 (EDT)
- According to Andrew Mace: Hmmmm. I just have plain ordinary Kmart style ramps and have no problem putting my Spit on them. Of course, I have only tried from the back. I usually put the back on the ra
- /html/spitfires/2000-04/msg01030.html (8,753 bytes)
- 9. Re: Fuel Tank Venting - BASIC (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:41:14 -0500 (EST)
- According to Ree Gurley: Mine does too. But I think it is more because Federal Smog specs require it rather than any blockage. I haven't realy looked at that part of my 79 Spit (if it ain't broke, do
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg00384.html (8,373 bytes)
- 10. Re: Fuel Tank Venting - BASIC (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:35:32 -0500 (EST)
- According to Barry Schwartz: I don't know, I've run mine all the way down to empty without it ever even flexing the sides of the tank inward and mine goes SWOOSH everytime I open it at the pumps. I t
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg00403.html (8,995 bytes)
- 11. Re: Fuel Tank Venting - BASIC (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 16:48:40 -0500 (EST)
- According to Simmons, Reid W: I think the problem here is a matter of how much. Which none of us can actually express in Email. :-) I don't notice any effect like that and as I say I have run the tan
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg00449.html (9,929 bytes)
- 12. Re: Fuel Tank Venting - BASIC (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 16:55:17 -0500 (EST)
- According to Simmons, Reid W: Do you mean original tanks are "unobtainium" or all tanks?? Rimmer lists a replacement for the the 1500 in their catalog. I am sure if he is still reading here our Maili
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg00451.html (8,958 bytes)
- 13. Re: seatbelts (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:31:37 -0500 (EST)
- According to Laura Gharazeddine: Not only that, but if you look at the raw statistics instead of the biased reports put out by the government you find that when the speed limit was reduced to 55 the
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg00565.html (8,249 bytes)
- 14. Re: closings (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:10:16 -0500 (EST)
- According to LaJoMor@aol.com: Well, take it from a PA resident, it wasn't that dismal a prospect. First, he was in a pretty good tourism area. (Punxatawny is just up the road and is good for at least
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg00882.html (8,432 bytes)
- 15. Re: Moss U/K (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:16:40 -0500 (EST)
- According to Fred Thomas: Your mileage may vary, I guess. My last two major purchases from Moss shipped out of New Jersey but were both labeled as having originiated in England. bill -- Bill Gunshann
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01379.html (8,007 bytes)
- 16. Re: Moss U/K (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:32:32 -0500 (EST)
- According to Milotay, Mark ISTA:EX: Many years ago I drove a Porsche 914. If you went into Imported Car Parts (the Bap-Geon distributor) you could by trigger contacts for the 914 or the Super Beetle.
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01405.html (8,385 bytes)
- 17. Re: Moss U/K (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:53:36 -0500 (EST)
- According to N.A. Campiglia III: I think people have missed the point of my example. The parts aren't packaged differently. The parts aren't branded differently. The parts are indistinguishable and c
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01431.html (8,476 bytes)
- 18. Re: Moss U/K (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:58:14 -0500 (EST)
- According to David Massey: Sorry, I don't get it. (Of course, if your hinting that I was rich because i drove a Porsche, remember that although the car was designed by Porsche, all the 4 cyl versions
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01432.html (8,107 bytes)
- 19. Re: Help me put the "Gas Out" Hoax to rest forever? (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:06:04 -0500 (EST)
- According to Jeff McNeal: This hits on one of my pet peeves. Banning them is totally un-necessary. Just enforce the state motor vehicle codes. Inside of a month there wouldn't be a single truck drive
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01434.html (8,798 bytes)
- 20. Re: Moss U/K (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:14:58 -0500 (EST)
- According to Jeff McNeal: I hope nobody here thought I was offended by the comment. I honestly didn't get it. But then I have always bought my sports cars (when I could afford them) based on their pe
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01447.html (8,159 bytes)
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