Rick,
If you wanna talk about too much spare time.... When I bought my '73
Spitfire, the previous owner referred to it as the "spitball". When the
motor went south (before I did :-) I seriously considered locating a rover
3500 V8 as a replacement motor. At which point the car would have been the
"eightball". The V8 conversion would have included changing the car color
from sapphire blue to black. With white circles on the doors. With "8" in
the circles, of course!
Of course, the conversion never happed. It's just as well, some idiot in a
SUV probably would've tried to play pool.
Jim
'73 Spitfire 1500 (and others!)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rstieg [SMTP:rstieg@ci.bartlett.tn.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 8:17 AM
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: spitfire names
>
> I call mine "Spitfire". or "Low Flyer"-if it's running.
> I DID have a really cool name, If I had bought the junked GT6 a friend had
> for sale ($300 u.s. ) and made a Spit-6 outa it (Hindsight is wonderful!)
> I
> would have had a vanity license plate reading "Griffon"- which as any of
> you warbird enthusiasts know, was the name for the later-version uprated
> Spitfire engines which followed the "Merlin" in the Mark XXI Spitfires.
> Way cool, I thought.
> rick stieg 75 spitfire (and too much free time to sit around thinking up
> stuff like this)
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