I dont know who the owner was but at last years HOT ROD NATIONALS there was
a 76 Spitfire with a fully blown Chevy engine.The top of the hood scoop came
to about a foot over the windshield. I dont know what you would see driving
that car exept mayby what is behind you and upside-down at that.
Tod Jones
-----Original Message-----
From: DANMAS@aol.com <DANMAS@aol.com>
To: rmideke@interbase.com <rmideke@interbase.com>; spitfires@autox.team.net
<spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Engine Swaps
>
>In a message dated 4/22/99 1:57:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>rmideke@interbase.com writes:
>
>> A friend of mind drives a 59 sprite with a 5.0 mustang
>> motor (as his only car and daily driver). Calling this car a sprite
>> is of course, streching things quite a bit, since very little
>> original sprite parts remain, but I would much rather have a car like
>> that than a new school mustang/camero etc which cost many thousands
>> more. (Dan Masters, I will try to get you pictures of this car
>> one of these days)
>
>Reed,
>
>Please do! That would have to be one of my all time favorites! I've seen
>one with a Chevy, but with a Ford? WOW!
>
>> Building hot rods of any kind is a hobby in its own
>> right, seperate from driving them.
>
>YES! That's one thing that is often overlooked in any discussion of engine
>swaps. DOING it is more fun for some of us than HAVING it. I'm one of those
>that feel that way. This can also apply to some of us who prefer to
restore
>just as well, but I really like solving all the nagging litle problems and
>doing the fabrication part. Of course, I'll have to admit, if I didn't have
>my stock TR6 to drive in the meantime, I might be a little bit more eager
to
>get the V8 done. I have a lot of other hobbies as well, so sometimes the V8
>project gets put on the back burner (like right now, I'm putting the
>finishing touches to some of the home improvement projcts I'm doing. One
more
>small project, and a couple of heavy-duty yard projects, and I'm back on
the
>car full time).
>
>Dan Masters,
>Alcoa, TN
>
>'71 TR6---------3000mile/year driver, fully restored
>'71 TR6---------undergoing full restoration and Ford 5.0 V8 insertion -
see:
> http://members.aol.com/danmas/
>'74 MGBGT---3000mile/year driver, original condition - slated for a V8 soon
>'68 MGBGT---organ donor for the '74
>
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