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Subject: Tridget 1500
From: "You Know Who" <mit-eddie!PSUVM.PSU.EDU!GGN100@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 90 11:22 EDT
 Phil sez:
>Larry Colen says "Just wait til you hear what I have to say about 1500
>Spridgets."
>
>Larry, it can't be any worse than what I think about them.  It is
>hard to believe, but the damn things sell for thousands of dollars
>around here.  I'd rather have my 1275-equipped 1966 RUST AND ALL than
>a TR-polluted, ugly-bumpered, jacked-up, ill-handling, oh, yes, calm
>down, Phil.  There, that's better.  Could you just loosen the sleeve
>ties a bit?  Thank you.  OK,  nobody is going to force one on me
>anyway.  I'm sorry if I offended anyone who is stuck with, I mean who
>owns a rupper-bumper Spridget.  If you have one of these things,
>please, do not ever drive a proper 1275 hard down a twisty road.  You
>will just wind up going home and kicking your 1500.
     WEll, Phil, I guess I must be the exception to this rule! I've
driven both 1275 and 1500 midgets (including F & G prod. cars, along
with the Spit.) and I'll stick with my 76' Midget. Yeah, when I first
got it, the car was exactly as you describe it. It's amazing what twin
SU's(*), 1275 springs, lowering blocks, foam filled (vs. steel
beam) bumpers and a bit of tuning in general can do! The car is still
weak down under and can't be reved to quickly, but it gets the job done.
(If need be, I could always drop a race preped sprint engine in. They
dyno at about 150 hp) Harrumph!

That's no flame thrower, officer, it's the worlds largest bic!

>phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov    In real life: Philip J Ethier
>Phone: 298-5324

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