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1. Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: SJagGo@aol.com
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:58:20 EST
What's the farthest drive any of you have taken in your Spitfires? My personal best, no CO-driver has been 6100 miles, including the last 1500 (Lava Hot Springs, ID to Springfield, IL) stopping only
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00809.html (8,299 bytes)

2. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: SJagGo@aol.com
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:09:50 EST
Speaking of old British Spitfires, check out the 1935 pinball machine on ebay! Bill Brockschmidt
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00813.html (7,344 bytes)

3. RE: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: Mike Welch <mikew@turbopower.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:19:21 -0700
Longest I've done is about 900 miles from Ft.Rucker, AL up to Ft.Eustis, VA back in '86. Me and an army buddy were transferred and went in my '78 Spitfire. 4 duffle bags strapped down on the luggage
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00814.html (9,589 bytes)

4. RE: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: "Banbury, Terrence" <Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:53:47 -0500
How far have I gone in my Spitfire? Well, I had this girlfriend and one time in my first Spitfire, we.....Oops! That's not what you meant. Uhh...so far, three blocks in my current Spit. Not as far as
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00816.html (11,067 bytes)

5. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: "Jeff McNeal" <jmcneal@ohms.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:13:13 -0800
The farthest I traveled in my original '67 Spitfire was roundtrip from Los Angeles to San Francisco, logging about 1,200 miles roundtrip with a lot of other driving going on. In the middle of the jou
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00818.html (9,893 bytes)

6. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: type79@ix.netcom.com
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:22:21 -0500
Your "wheel adventures" are quite interesting, but what I really would like to know is how did you determine how fast those wheels were going after they came off the car? Larry
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00820.html (7,880 bytes)

7. RE: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: "Banbury, Terrence" <Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:48:32 -0500
Yeah, I know what you mean. When I was younger, I could go a lot farther before my wheels fell off, too. TNB
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00823.html (11,139 bytes)

8. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: "D.T.Gebhard" <kimkell@decaturnet.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:52:23 -0500
The longest I've done was Ft. Wayne,IN to Athens,GA and back somewhere around 1978. Top down all the way!! A high school buddy and I went for a vacation to see another buddy. Made it back to Ft.Wayne
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00824.html (9,674 bytes)

9. RE: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: "Simmons, Reid W" <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:08:39 -0800
Your kidding, in a Spitfire?!?! You've just got to write an "instruction manual" for that move. :-) Reid '79 Spitfire (original owner) How far have I gone in my Spitfire? Well, I had this girlfriend
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00826.html (8,744 bytes)

10. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: Laura.G@141.com (Laura Gharazeddine)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:20:41 -0800
Top up or top down? Me? Both! No mystery-just agility and desire required! btw-it's easier in a Spitfire with top up than it is in a GT6! Laura (And the still virginal Nigel!) Vita brevis est: rapid
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00828.html (8,920 bytes)

11. RE: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: "Banbury, Terrence" <Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:04:52 -0500
So that's why you were looking for a 'gunner' for Nigel. OK, I'll stop now. Terry Banbury
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00832.html (8,934 bytes)

12. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: Dean Martz <dmartz@dns.lake-coe.k12.ca.us>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:09:18 -0800
Jeff and the list, ok, i'll chime in on the long distance spit debate. How far is it from Washington D.C. to Key West, Fla ??? Several years ago, I took a teaching job in the Keys, because I grew up
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00833.html (12,319 bytes)

13. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: "Tom Shirley" <tshirley@vol.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:13:25 -0500
My longest trips were every weekend starting from about April until the end of August in 1966. I was driving my brother's 66, which he gave to me later, and I made the round trip from Norfolk, VA to
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00840.html (9,311 bytes)

14. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: Laura.G@141.com (Laura Gharazeddine)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:12:11 -0800
Like you're sooo old now, Terry! Laura Vita brevis est: rapide agite, vigore strigate!
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00846.html (8,572 bytes)

15. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: AH1962SP@aol.com
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 22:01:43 EST
did you have to push it the 3 blocks?
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00851.html (8,261 bytes)

16. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: Gary Tash <tashg@bmi.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:36:55 -0800
I done several (3 - 4) 3000+ mile trips mostly down the west coast, northern Washington to LA, or so, and back to eastern Washington, through the mountains and high desert. One time had a water pump
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00854.html (11,489 bytes)

17. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 22:20:33 -0700
Ask me about my longest Spitfire trip in August when I get back from Joe -- "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort." -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00855.html (11,957 bytes)

18. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: Thearthurhsmith@cs.com
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:48:06 EST
I never looked at the mile clock in my first just drove and drove. Went on a honey moon with my first wife (looking for second) delivered her to the hospital for first child arrival. I drove it here,
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00872.html (8,215 bytes)

19. Long Distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: "BOYD ETHEREDGE" <bether@ktc.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:00:50 -0600
A number of years ago my wife and I traveled from San Jose CA to Manchester NH (almost coast to coast) with her '75 Spit 1500 - a distance of more than 3,000 miles. We drove two cars - neither one bi
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00873.html (8,620 bytes)

20. Re: Long distance Spits (score: 1)
Author: Laura.G@141.com (Laura Gharazeddine)
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 11:47:05 -0800
I hadn't even thought of it that way...but...sure! ;-) Laura Vita brevis est: rapide agite, vigore strigate!
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00882.html (8,524 bytes)


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