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Sprinzel (was Re: More 5 Speed junk

To: "Mike & Kerry Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>, "Gerard Chateauvieux" <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>, "rob thomas" <rob@thomasr.greatxscape.net>, "Jeff Boatright" <jboatri@emory.edu>
Subject: Sprinzel (was Re: More 5 Speed junk
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:56:08 +1000charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: "spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
References: <20000328161530.1296.qmail@web1502.mail.yahoo.com><v0421010ab5068ef7908e@[163.246.49.152]> <v03130318b506cbfcf3b4@[209.24.235.60]> <00c401bf9910$d747da00$275689ca@godzilla>
BTW,

John Sprinzel was in town last week and gave a very enjoyable talk
to the AHSDC (with some ring-ins from the big Healey club
and the MG club).

Earlier a few of us had a BBQ with John at Tony Bennetto's
place - some of you will remember Tony from Sprite Rush. Tony
had managed to corner copies of John's early books which JS happily
signed. It was interesting seeing those books as I hadn't come across
them before.

Tony brought John out to compete in the Lactos Rally a couple
of years ago and flew John down to Melbourne for the talk.

JS is great value as a speaker, he spoke of his times as driver and
navigator in the major rallies, the tuning business, life at Grosvenor St,
and as a motoring journalist.

As always he was witty and informative with lots of amusing anecdotes!

If your club is thinking of a speaker for a major event, you'd be hard
pressed to find a better all-round candidate than JS!

'Gigantic Mike'



----- Original Message -----
From "Mike & Kerry Gigante" <mikeg at vicnet.net.au>
To: "Gerard Chateauvieux" <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>; "rob thomas"
<rob@thomasr.greatxscape.net>; "Jeff Boatright" <jboatri@emory.edu>
Cc: "spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: More 5 Speed junk


> It was based on an MGB gearbox.
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerard Chateauvieux" <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
> To: "rob thomas" <rob@thomasr.greatxscape.net>; "Jeff Boatright"
> <jboatri@emory.edu>
> Cc: "spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 6:58 AM
> Subject: Re: More 5 Speed junk
>
>
> > Healey Marque, Magazine of Austin Healey Club of America, ran an
extensive
> > and in depth series on the Sebring Sprite written by Joanthan
> > Whitehouse-Bird of England last year. I have Parts 5 and 6, but there
> isn't
> > any mention of the 5 speed in those issues that I can find. Maybe
someone
> > else has some of the other issues. I can get my hands on them, but it
will
> > takes me a few days.
> >
> > Gerard
> >
> > At 8:25 PM +0100 3/28/00, rob thomas wrote:
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: Jeff Boatright <jboatri@emory.edu>
> > >To: Dan Dwelley <maine2me@yahoo.com>
> > >Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> > >Sent: 28 March 2000 18:01
> > >Subject: More 5 Speed junk
> > >
> > >
> > >> Dan,
> > >> Here's a wringer: Has anyone experience with the ORIGINAL five speed
> > >> as installed by the Healey Motorcar Company for their works Sebring
> > >> Sprites? Did it use off-the-shelf BMC parts? Did everything fit in
> > >> the current housing?
> > >>
> > >> Jeff
> > >>
> > >I can recall reading about this set-up some years ago.  I believe it
was
> > >based partly on the MGB box with 5th gear on the outside.  This may be
> > >incorrect but the article implied that it wasn't the sort of conversion
> to
> > >be either done at home or sold to the public.  I'll try to find it for
> you.
> > >Rob Thomas
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > G G              Gerard Chateauvieux
> >  E A
> >   R R        pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com
> >    A A
> >     R G          Pixelsmith  on  Duty
> >      D E
> >       S      http://www.gerardsgarage.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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