- 221. Re: DS / Spitfire (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:18:16 -0800 (PST)
- I saw them, Fred!!! Atleast I think this is it. It's a kit to make a spitfire chassis and power plant appear to be a '48 Ferrari Spyder..Look toward the bottom of the page at SPITFIRE KITS. http://me
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00154.html (7,202 bytes)
- 222. Hurricane (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:11:21 -0800 (PST)
- The Hurricane is a product of a company called CABURN in W. Sussex. http://www.caburn.demon.co.uk/Contents/CaburnEngineering/Hurricane/ -Terry Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great price
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00155.html (7,608 bytes)
- 223. another web site & new dash (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 21:12:01 -0800 (PST)
- If you're insomniatic or just can't get enough of seeing spitfires, I've got my web page working again at a geocities address... http://www.geocities.com/firespiter If nothing else, it's interesting
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00199.html (7,946 bytes)
- 224. Re: Terry Thompson (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:14:45 -0800 (PST)
- No, I'm sure PRI is a great company (They have to be to support Spitfires and Gt6s!) Not to knock PRI, but I spoke with several people including Mike and Ted S. (both of whom's opinion I respect grea
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00228.html (8,639 bytes)
- 225. Re: another web site & new dash (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:56:41 -0800 (PST)
- I've elected to go the route of using what I believe the British call a lap rope (blanket). I've driven it a few times this winter w/no heater on deceptively sunny days but with the top up and a jac
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00259.html (9,110 bytes)
- 226. Interior panels & upholstery (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 08:05:03 -0800 (PST)
- I was looking for some more vinyl to re-do a couple of trim pieces in the car, and found something I like better than the "1290" or "stag" vinyls at the fabric store. I know some people use masonite
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00273.html (7,813 bytes)
- 227. RE: Interior panels & upholstery (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 09:47:35 -0800 (PST)
- Oh! Well, it's this really nice chenile with flower paterns...Uh yeah. I was planning on waiting until I had all of the ugly pieces covered before I showed it, but I redid the dashboard yesterday. Sa
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00279.html (8,178 bytes)
- 228. Re:more gauges (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 11:23:44 -0800 (PST)
- You can probably get some better leads from other list members for accurate smiths gauges. I've just been cruising the Ebay auctions for SMITHS style gauges. My oil pressure gauge was actually a 2" M
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00283.html (9,341 bytes)
- 229. re: other gauges (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 11:31:04 -0800 (PST)
- Yes, the o/p gauge is a mechanical one, but I haven't been able to find a hose kit or compression fitting to work on it yet. So it's a dummy right now. I don't know if both of my gauges just aged or
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00284.html (6,824 bytes)
- 230. Ebay bidding (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:22:39 -0800 (PST)
- I prefer to proxy bid (There's a real sinking in the pit of your stomach when you lose an item by .01 cent or a dollar), but you shouldn't be bidding on an item unless you know what it's real worth i
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00298.html (8,186 bytes)
- 231. Aluminum radiators (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:29:57 -0800 (PST)
- I've read where people have used volkswagen, GM aluminum (shortened) and custom multiple-core radiators in their spitfires. I notice that most aluminum radiators run in the $300+ range and that's for
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00349.html (7,924 bytes)
- 232. Aluminum radiators (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:54:44 -0800 (PST)
- The only rabbit radiators I can find are right intake/outlet, and I just can't see it making an easy mate to the stock spit thermostat housing which points drastically away from the right. And I'm no
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00362.html (8,252 bytes)
- 233. Re: Aluminum radiators (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 05:53:05 -0800 (PST)
- I'm probably just being predjudiced due to the thought of putting some German built piece of engineering into my British vehicle. Plastic would probably make the unit quite light, and I think (but no
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00370.html (10,218 bytes)
- 234. Re: brake failure & Lemons (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:29:10 -0800 (PST)
- What would truly worry me is if no one cast a critical eye on a car. Engine fires? (I don't know of anyone that's had a spitfire engine catch on fire. My brother's Firebird did though.) I'm surprised
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00429.html (11,878 bytes)
- 235. Re: Maryland Car Laws (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:14:16 -0800 (PST)
- There's some sort of screwy law like that in Maryland. A friend of mine wanted to buy a totaled Chevy truck to steal the drive train out of to put into his late model truck and figured the extra bits
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00451.html (10,062 bytes)
- 236. Re: A Sad, Sad Day..... (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:14:58 -0800 (PST)
- Speaking of heads and ebay. I won one in an ebay 'auction', supposedly a MK 3. And while looking at it today (pulling off the assundries to go and get worked on in the shop), I noticed that there are
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00452.html (7,309 bytes)
- 237. Re: Maryland Car Laws (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 08:17:25 -0800 (PST)
- Sure there is. Look at the MD section in: http://www.carfax.com/cfm/rdg_region3.htm And there's a salvage auction up here in Laurel (or just between beltsville and Laurel) that only allows licensed p
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00462.html (8,797 bytes)
- 238. Ammeter questions (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:36:06 -0800 (PST)
- I have a question about ammeters. I read somewhere that I should hook the ammeter in serial between the Alternator (brown wire) and the battery (starter solenoid terminal). And this might be my whole
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00497.html (7,329 bytes)
- 239. Re: Oil filter adapter (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:59:28 -0800 (PST)
- Someone on the list was accumulating a list of oil filters for the spitfire. Did anyone ever delineate the list into which filter part numbers were for the 5/8" adapter and which were for the 1/2" ad
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00508.html (7,798 bytes)
- 240. Car Specifications '76 et al. (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:58:32 -0800 (PST)
- I just added a new web page to my site which has a "spread sheet" of 4-cyl roadsters from the 1970's/2000, their vital stats and compares them to the '1976 1500 spitfire (I chose '76 because I have a
- /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00594.html (7,404 bytes)
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