List,
I just got a mailer from an outfit in Road Island called SICP, has anyone
dealt with them?
I just got off the phone with a gal who didn't have any answers for any of
my basic questions on some of their products that are on sale, like...
"Do your wheel bearing bearings have plastic or brass inner retainers?"
Reply: I don't know... but they're standard bearings for the car.
"Your mailer lists a front coil spring for 67-74 midgets for $10.84, what's
the ratting of the spring?" Reply: I don't know... They're the standard
front spring that goes over the shock. Over the shock?
I must admit their prices are good, but if their parts quality is as good as
their peoples knowledge of what they're selling, then... no thanks?
Has anyone bought wheel bearings from them, and are the inner retainers
plastic or brass? The wheel bearing kit is listed for $17.54 and the part
#is QWB105C.
-Drew Griffith
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Clarici [SMTP:spritenut@Exit109.com]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 5:52 PM
To: George Procyshyn
Cc: sprite list
Subject: Re: Couple of questions
George Procyshyn wrote:
>
> Frank
>
> Two things
> 1)I haven't heard anything more about the big SU you were trying
to sort
> out. Any luck? (Or maybe I shouldn't have asked)
You should NOT have asked!!!
>
> 2)It's interesting to know that you were successful in getting the
A40
> exhaust fitted at Midas. You failed to let us know what this cost
you?
> Mind sharing the price?
After the guys were all done playing with the A40 they only charged
me
$106.
($100 + 6% tax)
They also listed the stock exhaust system for a 59 Austin A40 but
mine
does not have the stock engine or manifold.
I told them I wanted the car to sound like some quite car in the
next
bay (modern)
They told me it had to have an "exhaust note" so they picked thru
several mufflers until everybody liked the way it sounds. One was
too
loud, one was too quite, another didn't hang right. The one on the
car
looks like it belongs, and sounds "unique" there is an exhaust note
to
it but a nice old car type kind of sound.
The whole thing was like a game to the guys in the shop. They were
teaching the kid how to make bends, when he came back with the wrong
bend they told him to get another pipe and showed him on the car
where
it had to be bent. I think I made their day, all this and a lifetime
warranty on the muffler too!!
> Regards
> GP
> '58 AN5
--
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
Bugeye Sprite
67 Sprite
59 A40
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