My son drives my Spitfire to school most days. His friends have been
threatening to pick it up and move it to the center of the football field. I
know it's only a matter of time until they do. I just hope I find out so
that I can take a few pictures while it's still there.
Dave Moag
77 Spitfire
62 TR3B (which when done he will NOT be driving to school!)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-spitfires@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-spitfires@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Andrew Mace
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 1999 12:00 PM
> To: SpitfireKP@aol.com
> Cc: Spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: High School Spit abuse
>
>
> On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 SpitfireKP@aol.com wrote:
>
> > I was very upset yesterday when I left school to find that
> a number of
> > "fukking" football players had decided to relocate my car
> in the parking lot.
> > This was not a personal attack or anything; the diminutive
> size of the
> > Spitfire must have inspired them to pick it up and move it.
> Actually I do not
> > know if they slid it, rolled it, or picked it up.
> Regardless, I was very upset
> > by this.
>
> I guess I understand your feelings towards such reprehensible
> actions. On
> the other hand, in a way it's nice to know that some traditions never
> change. This happened to me on several occasions with my
> Herald in high
> school, and that was 1970! In truth, many's the time that I
> and only one
> other reasonably strong person would each grab a rear wheel arch of a
> Spitfire and "work" the back end around to a different
> position relative
> to the starting point. It's especially useful if even the
> tiny turning
> circle isn't small enough to put the car where you want it
> in, say, my
> barn (which you'd have to see to understand why this maneuver was
> occasionally needed).
>
> As for motion sensor/alarms, isn't that what most car alarm
> systems have
> as one feature? Seems to me that a simple inertia switch wired to a
> suitably disgusting-sounding air horn would do the trick. On
> the other
> hand, "boys will be boys"! :-) (And I was too small in high school to
> "fight back" when my Herald was relocated anyway.)
>
> --Andy
>
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