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1. Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: Rikrock@aol.com; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 20:56:17 EST; Submitted for your consideration, December issue of Car Craft Magazine, page 18, has a list of ten cars rated by Hemmings as best values in overlooked collector cars, along with Car Craft's commentar; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00187.html (8,090 bytes)
2. Re: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>; Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:14:56 -0700; Somebody should tell them that I now have camber compensators available to tame the surly beast! Joe -- "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort." -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00188.html (8,688 bytes)
3. RE: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: "Simmons, Reid W" <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>; Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 08:24:12 -0800; Consider the source. Just because the editors of that rag can't properly handle an automobile doesn't mean that no one else can either. I have found the handling of the Spitfire to be superior to al; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00204.html (9,115 bytes)
4. Re: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: Growe58@aol.com; Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 12:42:00 EST; My guess is that the List and the Rag are both talking about the same thing - a car that is somewhat unforgiving, one that will do everything the driver asks, but nothing more, a car that is very res; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00206.html (10,476 bytes)
5. Re: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>; Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 10:08:37 -0800; ** Actually the issue WAS address with the introduction of the Swing Spring in 1971 - which markedly reduced the undesirable characteristics referred to by this article, so the issue was really only; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00207.html (8,694 bytes)
6. RE: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: "Bowen, Patrick A RP2" <PABowen@sar.med.navy.mil>; Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 13:16:25 -0500; you also must realize that the magazine that made such comments is of the persuasion that any true automobile has a junk yard 454 dropped into a massive piece of junk iron from detroit and is only go; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00208.html (11,620 bytes)
7. Re: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>; Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 13:13:57 -0500 (); Whoa. For a moment there I thought I was on the early 911 owners' list! Seriously, that sounds like the same sort of broad brush that Car Craft used to paint their picture. BTW, I've never been a reg; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00209.html (10,690 bytes)
8. Re: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: "wizardz" <wizardz@maxinter.net>; Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 13:28:12 -0500; drive by the law.... you'd never push a Spit. The commoner wouldn't have bought a Spit to begin with. If they did...they 'deserved what they got' .... A Great handling, inexpensive performance (for i; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00211.html (12,573 bytes)
9. Re: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>; Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 11:31:23 -0700; That is because you have a '79 Spit. Have you driven one of the early ones that don't have the swing-spring? Without the camber compensator installed it can be a real adventure! Joe -- "If you can't; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00212.html (9,298 bytes)
10. RE: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: "Mostrom, Paul" <Mostrom.Paul@principal.com>; Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 13:05:16 -0600; Now I understand. I couldn't figure out why everyone was talking about spinning. I try my hardest and can't get my '77 to break the back tires loose. Of course that's probably because of the swing-sp; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00213.html (10,199 bytes)
11. Re: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: Laura.G@141.com (Laura Gharazeddine); Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 11:35:20 -0800; I can get mine to fishtail-that is what we're talking about here, isn't it? I'm especially good at it on right hand turns. Great fun! I like to lay a little rubber now and then, but after the summer; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00214.html (11,253 bytes)
12. RE: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: "Mostrom, Paul" <Mostrom.Paul@principal.com>; Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 13:54:33 -0600; I guess it's time to get a competition prep manual and start working on the spare engine! &:o)> w-rrrooommm w-rroooommm! Paul M. I can get mine to fishtail-that is what we're talking about here, isn'; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00215.html (11,845 bytes)
13. Re: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>; Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 12:13:00 -0800; < snip > < snip > ** Not really Laura, it's more likely the tendency for an early Spitfire, Specifically MK3 and earlier vehicles, when pushed at fairly high speed into a turn, and the throttle sudde; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00216.html (9,564 bytes)
14. Re: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: "Thomas Carney" <gt6plus@gis.net>; Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:40:08 -0500; I think we are reffering to what was called "jacking" in the early spitfires and even more noticeable in the Mk1 GT6. Increased Power on an already questionable rear suspension= big no no. There is a; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00217.html (12,669 bytes)
15. RE: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: "Simmons, Reid W" <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>; Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 12:49:21 -0800; Actually, yes I have driven "older" Spitfires but I could never seem to "get into trouble" with them as some people apparently can do. And I don't think my former race car driving experience had that; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00218.html (10,740 bytes)
16. Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: "Arthur H. Smith" <arthurhsmith@compuserve.com>; Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 17:29:21 -0500; Message text written by INTERNET:Rikrock@aol.com flame mode on What the bloody hell do you expect from a magazine that gets hot in the groin over souped up Chevys. The only reason I use to read it wa; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00224.html (8,354 bytes)
17. Re: Spitfire gets praised and picked on! (score: 1): Author: "Tom Shirley" <tshirley@vol.com>; Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 19:54:15 -0500; Joe is right. Apparently some of the folks on the list haven't experienced that sudden slide - lift effect when the outside wheel curls up under the car and she goes up on 3. Make the old orbs get k; /html/spitfires/1999-12/msg00251.html (9,229 bytes)

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