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Re: Run it Hard!!

To: "BILL McDEVITT" <wmmk1@informatics.net>
Subject: Re: Run it Hard!!
From: Laura.G@141.com (Laura Gharazeddine)
Date: Tue, Jun 6 2000 1:01:10 GMT-0600
Wow! All right Bill! I heartedly applaud you!

Laura G.
>
>From: "BILL McDEVITT" <wmmk1@informatics.net>
>Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:53:46 -0500
>To: "Spifires Autox Team" <spitfires@autox.team.net>,
>        "Jeff McNeal" <jmcneal@ohms.com>
>Subject: Run it Hard!!
>
>
>Jeff, The only mistake you made was not buying my
>MK1, when in weak moment I offered it to you!! Run
>your Spit hard, that is what it was made for!! As long
>as you had every nut and bolt in your hand like I did
>and know it is going to support anything you may do
>with it, don't worry!!  I replaced every nut, bolt and
>anything available in mine and abuse it all the time!!
>I've run the quarter mile drag strip at least 50 times,
>but only have one first place trophy, as I have to run
>against up to 1500cc's!!  Have run nearly 80 trips on
>various Auto Cross races and have 6 first place trophies
>and one second place one.YUCK!! I finished this fine
>machine in 1993 and have never touched any adjustment
>or torn it apart since then!!  Well, except for the differential
>, which was not made for this kind of abuse!! If you do it
>right, you have one of the best machines made!! If you
>purchase a 20 to 40 year old Rolls Royce or Lincoln, 
>you will have all the same problems that the list 
>encounters!! I dumped over 13 grand in this machine to
>make sure that I had a new machine and I did all the 
>work, except the machine work and paint. I now have
>41 trophies including two BEST OF SHOWS!!  I think I was
>the first to recognize that the Spitfire was under valued!!
>You will see it in two national magazines in the near 
>future!! Bill
>
>


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