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Re: VIN Plates

To: spridgets@autox.team.net
To: adrian@icx.net
Subject: Re: VIN Plates
From: type79@ix.netcom.com
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 15:00:54 -0600 (CST)
Reply-to: type79@ix.netcom.com
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Adrian,
Since you have a 1975 Midget, my remarks may not relate to your car. I have no 
experience with the late Midgets. Sorry.

Jay Fishbein, CT
AN-5 NOTNMG
HAN-6 NOTNMGEITHER
Innocenti-S NOTNUTHN2SUM


On 02/05/99 14:54:20 you wrote:
>
>I could have sworn mine were held on with rivets because I remember grumbling 
>when I first saw them.  I have a '75
>Midget, not a Sprite.  I'll have to wait til I get home and check.  Thanks.
>
>adrian
>
>type79@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
>> Yo...Adrian!,
>> In my/our experience in purchasing, owning, parting-out dozens of Sprites, 
>we have never seen riveted ID plates.
>>
>> Jay Fishbein, CT
>> AN-5
>> HAN-6
>> Innocenti-S
>>
>> On 02/05/99 12:31:15 you wrote:
>> >
>> >I thought they were riveted.  Did I look at them wrong?
>> >
>> >adrian
>> >
>> >hello39@idt.net wrote:
>> >
>> >> Adrian,
>> >> If it's just the VIN serial # you'll need a small phillips head
>> >> screwdriver, depending on the rust and wear on the heads.
>> >> The others are a slotted head in the door jams.
>> >> Alan
>> >>
>> >> J. Adrian Barnes wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > When the car comes back from the shop, I'll need to pull the VIN plates
>> >> > off the rusted hulk and put them on the new body.  How does that work?
>> >> > What tools do I need?  Thanks!
>> >> >
>> >> > adrian
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > ------------------------------------
>> >> > J. Adrian Barnes
>> >> > http://user.icx.net/~adrian/midget
>> >> > http://www.ravineware.com
>> >> >
>> >> > "When there was no meat, we ate
>> >> > fowl.  When there was no fowl we
>> >> > ate crawdads.  When there were no
>> >> > crawdads we ate sand."
>> >> > ------------------------------------
>> >
>> >--
>> >------------------------------------
>> >J. Adrian Barnes
>> >http://user.icx.net/~adrian/midget
>> >http://www.ravineware.com
>> >
>> >"When there was no meat, we ate
>> >fowl.  When there was no fowl we
>> >ate crawdads.  When there were no
>> >crawdads we ate sand."
>> >------------------------------------
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
>--
>------------------------------------
>J. Adrian Barnes
>http://user.icx.net/~adrian/midget
>http://www.ravineware.com
>
>"When there was no meat, we ate
>fowl.  When there was no fowl we
>ate crawdads.  When there were no
>crawdads we ate sand."
>------------------------------------
>
>
>
>




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