Allen,
Hate to correct you, BUT, there was SIX listers there Saturday.
You forgot to add the only Sprite lister, me! By the way I took
first in the Mk-II to MK-IV class.
Biff Jones
Pasadena, MD
'59 Bugeye, "Kermit'
'62 Sprite, 'Ole Gray'
http://sprites2.homestead.com/index.html
-----Original Message-----
From Ajhsys at aol.com <Ajhsys@aol.com>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, September 11, 2000 10:59 AM
Subject: Moss Fallfest
>What a beautiful day for a drive on Saturday. At least the
morning
>drive was nice...it got a bit warm for the drive home.
>
>Five Spridget listers made up the entire field of rubber bumper
Midgets
>at the Moss Fallfest in Dover, NJ. They musta had close to 150
cars
>there in total.
>
>Anyway, I took FIRST PLACE in RB Midget category. Michael G.
>came in what must have been a close second. John G. took third,
and
>Larry M. and Bill G. rounded out the field. I figure I won
because I was
>the first RB Midget there, and a lot of people got their voting
done early.
>But I did tell Michael to paint his car red if he wants to win
next year!
>
>Bill G.'s car is coming along nicely. He now has two seats, and
the
>recovering job is very nice. The interior will shine when it's
all in place.
>
>In the way of incident reports, I made it almost all the way up
there in
>the morning, and stopped at the rest stop on Route 287. I
popped the
>bonnet to see if the radiator was still dripping a bit (I had
poured in 1/2
>bottle of Stop Leak) and sure enough, it was. And I heard that
boiling
>sound inside the t'stat housing. So I had a cup of coffee and
sat for half
>an hour.
>
>I opened the pressure cap and it bubbled out a bit, then took
off the
>filler plug and poured in the rest of the Stop Leak. Holy Cow!
Look at
>all the pellets in the Stop Leak bottle! That's what's supposed
to plug
>the hole! I got all the pellets in the radiator and filled it
with another 3
>qts.
>of water, and off to Moss. When I got there, another 25 miles
or so, the
>leak had completely stopped. (And no problems all the way
home.)
>So I hope the temporary fix will get me thru the rest of the
summer, then
>I'll look into a recore.
>
>Now, Larry, want to tell the list why you were late to the show?
>
>Allen Hefner
>SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
>'77 Midget
>'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
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