[Spridgets] 20-minute engine swap

Deikis, John G John.Deikis at va.gov
Thu Jun 14 15:31:08 MDT 2007


Sopranos???   Have you ever seen a Russian mobster with a bad attitude
running around the pine barrens half naked??!



-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Clarici [mailto:spritenut at comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:55 PM
To: Deikis, John G
Cc: Spridgets
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] 20-minute engine swap

Deikis, John G wrote:


> Well we both tried talking with New Jersey accents...then we tried
those
> wife beater shirts, like Brando used to wear. We ordered strombolis
and
> cheese steak hoagies from a dago carry-out. We even put on fake gold
> neck chains and loitered around the Caddy.  Nothing doing!  We could
not
> do the swap in 20 minutes. No way. Never. Maybe with a '48 DeSoto, but
> not a Spridget.
>
>
>
> So, maybe one of you clever guys can give me some ideas for
simplifying
> the radiator-and-shroud R&R on a stock-bodied Spridget.

Stainless 10/32 phillips (not Pozidrive) screws.
But I never had any problems with the cross flow rads coming out.
Did you guys have mexican cooks at the dago carry out?
That would explain it. And fake gold, there you go. No guinea hot peper
hanging off a real gold chain.
Caddys are out, it has to be a black benz these days or nothing smaller
than an Escalade (black of course) Don't you watch the Sopranos?


--
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ


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