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Fw: Some comments...

To: "Bricklin" <bricklin@autox.team.net>
Subject: Fw: Some comments...
From: "Greg Monfort" <wingracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 18:45:09 -0500
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>I just bought a book titled "Bricklin" by H A Fredericks and Allan
>Chambers.  137 pages, it is all about the car and production problems.
>Some great pictures as well.  Anyone know about it?
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No. Is it a recent book, or one written shortly after the shutdown?
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>
>Re: Engine Cradle-I actually needed one of these for my 74.  The actual
>crossmember is an AMC piece, but the engine mount brackets have been
>changed completely as the engine sits farther back on the Bricklin (which
>is why it has a different oil filter setup-it would hit the crossmember on
>a stock AMC part).  The worst part of replacing it was the fact it was
>welded into the frame (at least on #323), not bolted in like AMCs.
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Mine's welded in (1609).
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I think his name was Tim Begley, and i think he passed
>away fairly young-late 20s?  He made a notchback hatch assy, and was doing
>a different nose.  He also had fiberglass door panels.  Did he indeed pass
>away,
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Yes.
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 and if so, anyone know what happened to his molds/materials?  Anyone
>see the notchback rear hatch?
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I can't recall seeing a picture of any in the mag, or any reference to them,
but I don't have any of the early issues before '79.

GM

>Thomas M. Benvie





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