Bill,
Gee, now who could it have been that took that first place from you? Was it
last year at the Maine VTR by any chance?
BTW I have 43 three trophies but who's counting ;-}
Ralph Jannelli
Matthews, NC
'65 Spitfire MKII (First place autocross VTR '99)
'72 Spitfire MKIV
'80 TR8 DHC
----- Original Message -----
From: BILL McDEVITT <wmmk1@informatics.net>
To: Spifires Autox Team <spitfires@autox.team.net>; Jeff McNeal
<jmcneal@ohms.com>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 10:53 PM
Subject: Run it Hard!!
>
> Jeff, The only mistake you made was not buying my
> MK1, when in weak moment I offered it to you!! Run
> your Spit hard, that is what it was made for!! As long
> as you had every nut and bolt in your hand like I did
> and know it is going to support anything you may do
> with it, don't worry!! I replaced every nut, bolt and
> anything available in mine and abuse it all the time!!
> I've run the quarter mile drag strip at least 50 times,
> but only have one first place trophy, as I have to run
> against up to 1500cc's!! Have run nearly 80 trips on
> various Auto Cross races and have 6 first place trophies
> and one second place one.YUCK!! I finished this fine
> machine in 1993 and have never touched any adjustment
> or torn it apart since then!! Well, except for the differential
> , which was not made for this kind of abuse!! If you do it
> right, you have one of the best machines made!! If you
> purchase a 20 to 40 year old Rolls Royce or Lincoln,
> you will have all the same problems that the list
> encounters!! I dumped over 13 grand in this machine to
> make sure that I had a new machine and I did all the
> work, except the machine work and paint. I now have
> 41 trophies including two BEST OF SHOWS!! I think I was
> the first to recognize that the Spitfire was under valued!!
> You will see it in two national magazines in the near
> future!! Bill
>
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