[Spridgets] Fw: Que Pasa

Ron Soave soavero at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 12 21:13:39 MDT 2011


This what makes me so sad. I loved these vignettes. His "Rotus" comment was when he named my Miata, japanese Lotus Elan. It was my license plate, currenty hanging in my shop.

--- On Tue, 5/1/01, Frank Clarici <spritenut at exit109.com> wrote:

> Soaveson
> 
> Whatcha up to?
> I landed a contract for decks on million dollar homes (new
> construction)
> Nice deal, $4.10 a square foot just for labor.
> I am making about $xxx a day. They love me, have lots of
> work but I have
> to finish up my local stuff too.
> These houses are monsters! 2 hours away from TR up in the
> western hills
> of joisey. 
> 
> The 69 is done except for I am waiting for the new top to
> get here and
> the seats are still at the upholsters. (Walt Downs, which
> BTW bought a
> Rotus like yours. He had a real Elan now he has a jap copy.
> He says it's
> more reliable. Fuck him too.
> 
> Britfest this weekend, Carlisle next weekend, Amy's blitz
> her Sprite the
> weekend after that. Kevin wants to come help strip the
> Sprite Alan
> bought but I have to pick up and strip untill he can get
> here.
> So for the next month, it's Sprites sprites, and more
> Sprites!
> Ahhh, summer time!
> I polished up the Bugeye, checked the oil, topped up the
> radiator so
> it's good to go for the season. I did spend a few hours
> buffing the alum
> slots, they look like chrome! No sense fussing over it,
> I'll fix it
> if/when it breaks.
> PIECES is in good shape except it died the other night. I
> had a faulty
> alternator conversion connection at the regualtor. I guess
> it just got
> coroded. I (finally) figured it out, undid it, and
> everything came on
> again. But damn, trying to find out why there was nothing.
> I took the
> ign switch out, jumped the wires, fucked with the solenoid,
> battery, alt
> connections, traced wires, almost ripped out the dash, then
> I thought
> for a minute, all power comes thru the dyked out regulator
> so I went
> there and couldn't find anything loose, just must have been
> dirty.
> All better now.
> 
> The racer goes in the garage (again) and I will do it for
> sure.
> No more projects! I just said no already. I am burnt out
> doing Sprites.
> 3 in a year among my 3 on the road cars kept me quite
> busy.
> I am out of parts. I am bumming gas tanks, Ebrake parts,
> door handles,
> and like that. What ever falls my way next will be parted.
> I need to
> replace my stash.
> 
> I inherited a Les Leston wood wheel from Walt, he just gave
> it to me.
> Nice guy huh. And I could sell it for more then he will
> charge me to
> redo the seats. He also handed me an oil/water dual gauge.
> It was taking
> up space in his basement. Now that he owns a rotus, what
> will he do with
> it?
> Hey I had one of those dual gauges in my 68 Ford drop top.
> I stuck one
> in the A40, the Mini, maybe next I'll stick one in the
> Beemer.
> 
> I took Scotty for a ride in his red 69. Now picture this,
> no seats, I
> sat on the floor. Bad tires like the outer tread is falling
> off,
> steering wheel just stuck on the column.
> Around the circles in my 'hood at speed and the wheel comes
> off in my
> hand! The thumping of the tires, no muffler just a straight
> pipe at the
> time, Scotty freaking out but loving it. What a ride!
> 
> later
> -- 
> 
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> Lots of Sprites
> http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut


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