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Re: '59 A with a V8 (horror!)

To: dmeadow@juno.com, boballen@sky.net
Subject: Re: '59 A with a V8 (horror!)
From: johnhaynes@som-uky.campus.mci.net (John Haynes)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:43:30 -0400 (EDT)
At 06:24 PM 8/5/97 -0500, dmeadow@juno.com wrote:
>On Tue, 05 Aug 1997 16:23:32 -0500 Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
>writes:
>>However, the national 'A' meet was here in Kansas City a few years 
>>ago. I milled
>>though the (comparatively few) cars and saw a real odd one. It took 
>>awhile to
>>figure out what was wrong. The fellow had sawed the car in half, right 
>>down the
>>middle, an added 8 or 9 inches to its width. The car looked 'right' 
>>otherwise.
>>The added width made the addition of Ford Mustang V8 / tranny / and 
>>rear end all
>>the easier. That was a very interesting car!
>>--
>
>I was there, Bob, and one small correction.  The guy had actually cut
>down either side  of the car, between the bonnet and the front fenders in
>front, and the bootlid and the rear fenders in back, and let in four or
>five inches on either side.  That way he could use the stock bonnet and
>bootlid.  I looked at the car for a long time in puzzlement, too, before
>hearing him talk about it.  From the front, the grille looked slightly
>small!  On the inside, the floor looked  too flat versus stock, and there
>was definitely too much room in the car.  He had done such a good job
>that it took a little observation and comparison with a stock car to
>figure it out.
>
>
>David Littlefield
>Houston, TX
>
>    This car was built by Charles Daughtery of Harrodsburg Ky.  It is a
near perfect job. The frame was also cut and widened. It is powered by a 289
HiPo. A few years eariler he built an equally lovely Anglia with a cobra
engine. 
   Sam Haynes
59 MGA frame off
59 TR3 Original owner


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