"he's gonna start livin"
Well, your late night-early morning adventure with Nigel isn't for your
average person...it's an adventure when I drive my Spit, too. You just
don't know what's going to happen...usually good, sometimes not...
Terry
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> From: Laura.G@141.com[SMTP:Laura.G@141.com]
> Reply To: Laura.G@141.com
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 12:52 PM
> To: RC1NUKE@aol.com; sharpc@interaxs.net; spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Invisible ink?
>
>
> Yesterday, at the auto parts place to buy oil, an older gentleman asked me
> about my spit-never had a British car before, 39 year old son was just
> killed in a motorcycle accident, and really starting to appreciate how
> short
> life is...thought the Spit was the best looking car he'd seen in ages and
> wanted to know all about it-'cause he's gonna start livin'!
>
> Nigel was all proud and everything-until 3:15 am whilst I was driving home
> from a date in Long Beach down PCH and a horrible noise came from his
> "belly"-the weld on the exhaust failed. Took forever to get a tow truck as
> they were busy towing cop cars-and then we had to stop and get gas! While
> my-ahem- "chauffeur" was filling up, I went in for a bottle of water and
> met
> an older gentleman who asked me about the car "wouldn't start, eh?" He has
> a
> Morgan, but his daughter had a Spit-and of course there were all the
> negative things said (I wish they wouldn't say these things where Nigel
> can
> hear!) about his daughter's Spit never starting and electrical
> problems...yada...yada...yada.
>
> Got home by 4:30 and into bed by 5am-watched the begining of the
> sunrise-thanks to my trusting Spitfire!
>
> Laura G. (Ready to pass out-and still have to remove the offending piece
> and
> take the car to the muffler shop.)
>
> Oh, actually, the car isn't too much louder with the pipe broken! Sounds
> like it did back when I first got it-before I had a resonator put on it to
> tone it down!
>
> Vita brevis est: rapide agite, vigore strigate!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <RC1NUKE@aol.com>
> To: <sharpc@interaxs.net>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 8:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Invisible ink?
>
>
> >
> > The only people that ask about my Spit are other Spit owners and early
> > teenage girls that yell at me when I drive by.
>
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