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Re: VIN Plates

To: spridgets@autox.team.net
To: byers@cconnect.net
Subject: Re: VIN Plates
From: type79@ix.netcom.com
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 15:45:52 -0600 (CST)
Reply-to: type79@ix.netcom.com
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
"It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool
than to speak, and remove all doubt"  -- Mark Twain

Damn it Steve, do you have to keep reminding me!

Jay "all doubt removed" Fishbein, CT
AN-5
HAN-6
Innocenti-S

On 02/05/99 16:39:11 you wrote:
>
>If I'm not mistaken, Adrian owns a late Midget.  The VIN plate is riveted
>to the top of the dash.  To get it off, use about a 1/8" drill bit, or a
>little larger, and drill the rivet head off.  Replace the plate with pop
>rivets.
>Steve Byers
>Havelock, NC USA
>'73 Midget GAN5UD126009G  "OO NINE"
>'66 BJ8  HBJ8L/36666  "TARHEELY"
>'63 BJ7 HBJ7L/20111 "HEALEYUM"
>"It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool
>than to speak, and remove all doubt"  -- Mark Twain
>
>
>----------
>> From: type79@ix.netcom.com
>> To: spridgets@autox.team.net; adrian@icx.net
>> Subject: Re: VIN Plates
>> Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 2:24 PM
>> 
>> Yo...Adrian!,
>> In my/our experience in purchasing, owning, parting-out dozens of
>Sprites, we have never seen riveted ID plates.
>> 
>> Jay Fishbein, CT
>> AN-5
>> HAN-6
>> Innocenti-S
>> 
>> On 02/05/99 12:31:15 you wrote:
>> >
>> >I thought they were riveted.  Did I look at them wrong?
>> >
>> >adrian
>> >
>> >hello39@idt.net wrote:
>> >
>> >> Adrian,
>> >> If it's just the VIN serial # you'll need a small phillips head
>> >> screwdriver, depending on the rust and wear on the heads.
>> >> The others are a slotted head in the door jams.
>> >> Alan
>> >>
>> >> J. Adrian Barnes wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > When the car comes back from the shop, I'll need to pull the VIN
>plates
>> >> > off the rusted hulk and put them on the new body.  How does that
>work?
>> >> > What tools do I need?  Thanks!
>> >> >
>> >> > adrian
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > ------------------------------------
>> >> > J. Adrian Barnes
>> >> > http://user.icx.net/~adrian/midget
>> >> > http://www.ravineware.com
>> >> >
>> >> > "When there was no meat, we ate
>> >> > fowl.  When there was no fowl we
>> >> > ate crawdads.  When there were no
>> >> > crawdads we ate sand."
>> >> > ------------------------------------
>> >
>> >--
>> >------------------------------------
>> >J. Adrian Barnes
>> >http://user.icx.net/~adrian/midget
>> >http://www.ravineware.com
>> >
>> >"When there was no meat, we ate
>> >fowl.  When there was no fowl we
>> >ate crawdads.  When there were no
>> >crawdads we ate sand."
>> >------------------------------------
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> 
>
>




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