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Re: Glass Bonnet/ RWA Midget/ Riley RMF and RMB

To: "Charles F. Christ" <cfchrist@earthlink.net>, "Rob Lewis" <rob.lewis@photondynamics.com>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Glass Bonnet/ RWA Midget/ Riley RMF and RMB
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:09:13 -0800
References: <469DD8C728F20449A9D42D8226584A482C0E46@AUS-EXCH-01.photondy namics.com>
chuck

as i recall, I had a positive confirmation that it was a Kellison. Did you
forget or do you dispute that is the case?

Gerard

At 3:57 PM -0500 1/24/02, Charles F. Christ wrote:
>the bonnett on 642 HPA takes a standard bugeye grille and has no raised rib
>or ridge down the center of the bonnet from the rear , forward to just over
>the grille opening.  the two are quite similar!  but not matching.   good
>try though!   i have been interested in who manufactured the one i have for
>a few years(since purchase).   initially i thought it might be a speedwell.
>and for what i paid it was cheap enough to just take home and stash it away.
>mine has some damage and was on a yellow with broad 1950's type center
>racing stripe race car.   upon purchase mine had been sprayed gray primer
>over the old finish.   fiberglass work does not phase me.  the bonnet damage
>is an easy repair for me to do.   but i have just put it in storage and it
>will stay there untill i'm ready for it.   parish plastics?  who knows?
>but it is definitly not a speedwell!   to date no magazine articles from the
>period or manufacturers brochures have surfaced to positivly identify the
>bonnet.   there have been some very well educated guess's.   i'd just loove
>to see a scan of the original mfgr.'s advertisement?   we tried this a year
>ago with pictures on gerard's web site.   that is how we found the few
>others around the country.   but still no one knows for certain who
>manufactured it...yet.
>
>chuck.
>----- Original Message -----

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