- 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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