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RE: winter storage

To: "'Ryan Smith'" <shmitty99@hotmail.com>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: winter storage
From: "Simmons, Reid W" <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 12:49:16 -0800
I never stored my Spitfire during the winter.  In fact I drove it through 10
Michigan winters with no ill affects although the light weight of the car
made traction a little hairy at times.  I have found that my cars have
faired much, much better in northern winters than in the salt air
environment of South Florida (or other coastal areas).

Reid
'79 Spitfire (original owner)


 -----Original Message-----
From:   Ryan Smith [mailto:shmitty99@hotmail.com] 
Sent:   Tuesday, November 30, 1999 8:58 PM
To:     spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject:        Re: winter storage


I've always wondered this too.  Why store them at all?  Unless you've got 
some trailer queen that never sees the road except on beautiful spring days,

just drive it a little during the winter!  I understand if you live in a 
place with perpetually salty roads but that's the only excuse.

I took my spit home from school over a month ago and it just sat until I got

home for Thanksgiving.  Went over to the shop and it fired right up.  Drove 
it for a few days and now it's sitting till I get home again for X-mas.

just my 2 cents

Ryan Smith
72 Emerald Green Spitfire




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