- 1. Re: Autographed valve cover (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Algar <JamesA@hi-torque.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 16:47:48 -0700
- And to answer (belatedly) your question about my Sprite's "autographed" valve cover...no, never found anything out. I suspect that C.R. Chapman was just a worker on the engine assembly line who got
- /html/spridgets/1999-11/msg00089.html (8,072 bytes)
- 2. RE: Autographed valve cover (score: 1)
- Author: "Webster, David" <David.Webster@smec.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:13:49 +1100
- It wasn't Colin Chapman (Mr Lotus) was it? Dave, And to answer (belatedly) your question about my Sprite's "autographed" valve cover...no, never found anything out. I suspect that C.R. Chapman was ju
- /html/spridgets/1999-11/msg00093.html (8,288 bytes)
- 3. Re: Autographed valve cover (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Algar <JamesA@hi-torque.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 17:28:45 -0700
- No, that possibility was discarded early on; "Mr. Lotus" Chapman was Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman, so the initials don't match. Jim Algar
- /html/spridgets/1999-11/msg00094.html (9,047 bytes)
- 4. Re: Autographed valve cover (score: 1)
- Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 08:59:43 -0500
- Why couldn't it have been a previous owner who wanted to immortalize himself? This would make more sense to me, because, logistically, a guy working on the assembly line would probably not have had t
- /html/spridgets/1999-11/msg00191.html (9,300 bytes)
- 5. Re: Autographed valve cover (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Algar <JamesA@hi-torque.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 09:54:18 -0700
- Yours is a finely reasoned argument, Bob, except for one thing: there is no previous owner. I bought the car new off the dealer's showroom floor, and noticed the valve cover signature the very first
- /html/spridgets/1999-11/msg00199.html (9,431 bytes)
- 6. Re: Autographed valve cover (score: 1)
- Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 10:24:49 -0500
- Oops! Next time I'll read the whole post. Bob
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