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Re: Headlights in /GT

To: John Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Subject: Re: Headlights in /GT
From: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@uswest.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:08:51 -0700
Chuck, learn to love those headlights - you need 'em in production class. I just
painted mine black to make them disappear.
Ed


John Beckett wrote:

>     Chuck
>
>     In the dog house again? Boy that didn't last long. Of course I've not
> been out of the dog house in a long time.
>
>     As to the lights for a /GT. The rule book says that the headlights must
> be retained in the stock location. So my guess is they gotta be there, bulb
> and all. Don't know that they must be in moveable condition as the original
> location can be construed as closed. Maybe Ed Van Scoy or Dan Warner will be
> able to define this a little further when they get back from Muroc.
>
>     John (keep trying Landracing.com & SCTA-BNI.org for Muroc info) Beckett,
> LSR #79
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Rothfuss" <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
> To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 12:36 PM
> Subject: Headlights in /GT
>
> > List,
> >
> >    OK, here's an interesting question.  I've got two LSR project cars in
> the
> > works.  Both will fit into the current GT category.  Both the Opel GT and
> > the RX7 have covered headlights, the RX7's flipping up and the GT's
> rolling
> > over.  If I must retain the headlights, do I also have to retain the
> > machanism that raises them, or can I delete it and lock the mechanism
> closed?
> >
> >    I'm looking for a spot to stuff a fuel cell under the hood, and right
> > where the right hand headlamp motor sits would be a nice spot.
> >
> >    Finally got the new RX7 off the trailer today, and I think I need my
> eyes
> > checked.  Could've sworn this one had NO sunroof, but it does.  Much
> smallet
> > then the last one, and I know how to handle it, so it's not a problem til
> it
> > leaks. (Then I break out the nibbler and the MIG and do away with it!)
> Nice
> > to have a new toy in the shop, but my wife has already stopped speaking to
> > me again.
> >
> >    Sure is a pointy thing. (The car)  Maybe I'll call it "The Sadistic
> Missile."
> >
> > Chuck Rothfuss
> > LSR #510
> > Pole Cat Hollow, NC
> >
> >
> >


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