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RE: opening the bonnet

To: "'James Carruthers'" <jcarruthers@freenet.co.uk>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: opening the bonnet
From: Davies William-qswi646 <William.M.Davies@motorola.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:48:10 +0100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Carruthers [mailto:jcarruthers@freenet.co.uk]
> 
> So can anyone actually open the bonnet on their own? Do I 
> just not have the strength - do I need to start going down 
> the gym? 

James,
        While it's always better to have 2 people lift the bonnet to prevent
flexing (as if it didn't do enough of that on it's own!), I never had a
problem opening the bonnet on any of my Spitfires. See you down the gym
then... :-)
        Cheers,
                Bill.

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