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Re: WOW!! I coulda had a V8 (tm)

To: Brad Fornal <toyman@digitex.net>
Subject: Re: WOW!! I coulda had a V8 (tm)
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:29:54 -0400
Cc: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>, midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com
Organization: Positive Earth Drivers Club
References: <3BD186CD.B8252621@digitex.net>
Brad Fornal wrote:
> 
> VeeEight your Spridget
> I won an interesting magazine off of eBay (your "beware, you may get
> screwed in cyberspace" community) the other week. It is a May 1961 issue
> of Cars, The Automotive Magazine. In it is an article entitled 4 great
> engine swaps. The most interesting of the 4 was a 270 c.i. 'Vette engine
> with the automatic powerglide slipped into a Bugeye. 


I was *lucky* enough to ride in a 283 ci powered Sprite many years back.
3 speed tranny, wheelies in first, smoke the tires in 2nd, go like a rocket in
third.
The car lasted almost a whole week.

-- 

Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
United We Stand
http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut



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