Nick, I love my wife and she loves my Spitfire. But she doesn't do any of the
work. Would you mind if I borrowed yours for a while? Just kidding.
Vic Whitmore
76 Spitfire
Thornhill, Ontario
"N.A. Campiglia III" wrote:
>
> I went through the thrifty nickel religiously for about 6 months looking for
> a second car, any car as long as it didn't cost over $1000.00. There seemed
> to be an over abundance of VW's at the time so I figured that was what I
> would end up with. Eventually I had found THE car, it was a '69 Bug in great
> shape. I went to see it several times, test drove it, the only problem is
> he wanted $1300.00, I didn't have it.....
> I went over to make one last attempt at haggling with him, when I came in
> sight of his house his neighbor was pushing a vehicle out of his garage, it
> was a Spit, 1974. I hadnt seen one of these since about 1979 ( I lived on
> Guam for 7 years after that), it was at a dealer where my dad was picking up
> our VW rabbit. My dad told me at the time many horror stories about the
> Spit breed as we waited for our car. Well, needless to say I couldn't
> remember any of them when I saw the guy pushing the Spit. Hell, I didn't
> even remember the VW after that. I stopped and admired the Spit, rough as
> it was, the guy came out and asked what I needed. I simply said "Id like to
> take that off your hands, I have $1000 with me, how much do you want?" I
> didn't know if he wanted to sell it. He said "$1000???, it's yours" No
> kidding that was the whole conversation. I had to get a battery and some
> oil for the dash pot, but it fired up real nice. Seems he and his 30 yo
> wife had been restoring it when she died, he lost all interest in it after
> that. He had ATV wheels on the trunk when I saw it first. It took a whole
> can of clutch fluid to get it home, bad slave cylinder.
>
> Here comes the wife part:
>
> I had my hand in a cast at the time we got it so I couldn't get to the
> cylinder to fix it. My wife said if I showed her how she would do it, there
> we were side by side laying under the car and she was wrenching away. She
> pulled it, honed it, and rebuilt it alone..... The love of my life. Since
> then she has trouble shot and repaired the gas gauge, when I got frustrated
> installing the tranny in November she told me to take a break, when I got
> back outside it was in ,thanks to her. So, I bought her her own Spit a 1968
> MK III. She fixes it when it breaks and drives it like Mario Andretti. She
> is the only Real Estate agent I know that sells houses from a 2 seat
> convertible.
>
> Sorry it was so long,
>
> N.A. Campiglia
> Abilene,TX
> http://camalott.com/~spitdrvr
> '74 Spitfire 1500
> '68 Spitfire MK III
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