You had to ask...
That car belongs to one of our members, who happens to own some
other very interesting cars as well. ('56 A-H Factory 100M, a rally
racing Mini, Frogeye Sprite, Porsche Spyder are some of them). This car
was hand made by a friend of his from the Cape Cod area. It's built on
an Austin Healey Sprite chassis and running gear, has Cadillac tail
lights, and a lifetime contract with Terminex termite control. (no, not
really)....... The woodwork is stunning! Talk about your land yacht. It
resembles a vintage Chris Craft speed boat. This won first place in
Special Interest class at British Invasion in Stowe in 2001, and many
other awards.
I believe it's currently for sale. We can't wait to see what takes
it's place in the barn!!
Cheers,
Kevin Thompson
www.capecodbritishcarclub.org
Gary Fluke wrote:
>
> Kevin,
>
> Do you know the story on the car with the wooden body shown on the following
> page of your club's website?
>
> http://www.capecodbritishcarclub.org/CarPhotos/Just_try_to_name_this_one.jpg
>
> The driver's door looks suspiciously TR3 like, but I don't really know why
> it would be related at all since it seems to be made of wood.
>
> Gary
> '73
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "KTnKT" <ktnkt@cape.com>
> To: <WaltP@Anspach.com>; "6 Pack" <6pack@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:48 PM
> Subject: Re: still missing
>
> > Walt,
> > if the other suggestions you've heard don't work, try pulling the
> > plug wires, one at a time, and look inside the insulators at both ends
> > with a flashlight. If they're like the ones I had on my car last year,
> > you'll find a few with blackened connectors. In fact, one wire
> > completely separated from the crimp connection and fell off the
> > distributor cap when the cap was removed. This was caused by the crimps
> > at the connectors not being tight enough. And no, these wires weren't 5
> > or 10 years old. They had been installed 3 months earlier, and had about
> > 2,000 miles on them. Just one more example of the inferior parts being
> > manufactured for us these days. They had been purchased from one of the
> > "big 2".
> > (I don't even consider Victoria British to be in the running since
> > getting a box of absolute trash from them a few years ago for a Spitfire
> > project)..
> > In any case, back to the subject..... The arcing from the weak
> > connections burned the center wire core completely through on half the
> > wires. Any time one buys a set of wires, it's good practice to check all
> > connections, and tighten the crimps if neccesary.
> > Good luck,
> > Kevin "sparky" Thompson
> > at: www.capecodbritishcarclub.org
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