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Re: 1500 Hard-top Questions

To: "Michael Hargreave Mawson" <OC@46thFoot.com>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: 1500 Hard-top Questions
From: "Scott A. Roberts" <herald1200@home.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:21:20 -0400
Well, with a yellow and black paint scheme, you should not need triangles
should the inevitable happen enroute somewhere...

;)

Scott


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hargreave Mawson" <OC@46thFoot.com>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: 1500 Hard-top Questions


>
> In article <"014033ACD8840076*/c=us/admd=  /prmd=Cat/o=NOTES/s=Gosling/g
> =Richard/i=B/"@MHS>, Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
> writes
> >
> >Mike,
> >
> >As I thought, the 'moulding' is a chromed plastic strip that runs along
the
> > bottom rear edge of the hard-top.  It is purely decorative.
>
> Splendid - I can do without it then!
>
> >  If Rimmers say
> > 'Enquire' in their price list it almost certainly means they don't have
it -
> > the reason they say 'Enquire' I suspect is that they are always trying
to
> > increase the number of components they do, so there is a slim
possibility that
> > they have introduced that part since the last price-list came out.
>
> According to their sales chappie, not only do they not have any, they
> don't even have a potential source of supply. :-(
>
> >Richard & Daffy  (Fitted new (well, second-hand) rear spring last night,
less
> > rear sag, but still leans!)
>
> Carly will be getting a new (new) rear spring whilst I am on holiday - I
> really hope she will lose some of her sag too.   Hitting a manhole cover
> with the nearside wheels is painful enough; doing the same with the
> offside wheels *hurts*.
>
> BTW, I'm having second thoughts about having my hard-top sprayed to
> match Carly's Inca Yellow - not least because I have been quoted GBP160
> to do it.   Black, however, would simply go on on top of the existing
> red...   What is the opinion of the list?   Would a black hardtop on a
> yellow Spit look daft, or classy?
>
> ATB
> Mike
> --
> Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea,"
> published by Greenhill Books on 28th March, 2001:
> http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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