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Re: Spitfire gets praised and picked on!

To: Growe58@aol.com
Subject: Re: Spitfire gets praised and picked on!
From: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 10:08:37 -0800
>I've always been rather amazed that BL or JRT was able to sell
>a car with this kind of, uh, challenging handling as late as 1980
>or 81 in the litigious US without getting their corporate pants
>sued off...
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Actually the issue WAS address with the introduction of the Swing Spring in
1971 - which markedly reduced the undesirable characteristics referred to
by this article, so the issue was really only with vehicles up 'till 1970
more or less :-}

Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net

72 PI, V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
70 Spitfire (long term project)


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