Jeeze, Chris...
I live in Pahrump with my Tiger....are they gonna come looking for me and
thinking they got you? LOL...
mayf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hill" <Pirouette@uisreno.com>
To: "Theo Smit" <tsmit@shaw.ca>; "Russ Eshelman" <russe@firstva.com>
Cc: <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: Tiger body repair
> I was never sure of the accuracy of rumors about dips eating you I.D.
plates,
> but took mine off my first car before acid dipping it just to be safe.
Many
> years and not a heck of a lot of improvement later, the plates are still
in my
> safe deposit box. But I got an interesting reaction when doing Nev. state
> inspection for registering my newly acquired out of state Chebby Z24
(beloved
> mascot of the TU Monterey autocross). I asked the inspector what their
> criteria were regarding non-factory rivets and if they even looked for
such
> things. His response was to ask where the car was presently stored! He
asked
> twice more before I escaped (think I mentioned something about Pahrump).
> Don't ever think the states don't take such things seriously or that they
> wouldn't like to impound (read crush?) your car just for something to do.
>
> Chris Hill
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