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RE: Making a Bugeye race car "street legal"

To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Making a Bugeye race car "street legal"
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:30:42 -0800
Gerard,

Could not make the link work... but I got to you main page and browsed your
collection... Was the Sprite you wanted to show me your white Bugeye #50?

Jacques LC

-----Original Message-----
From owner-spridgets at autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-spridgets@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Gerard
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 10:14 AM
To: Jacques Le Clainche; spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Making a Bugeye race car "street legal"


Jacques,

I think you need to have wiper arms, though I think you can get away with
visual not functional. Not sure if bumpers are necessary, but I'd have at
least the rear ones. Speedo and (I can tell you from personal experience)
make sure you have decent ground clearance for street use!

See mine here...

http://www.gerardsgarage.com/GarageContent/Sprite_Collection/Collection_Vint
age.
htm

Gerard

At 10:01 AM -0800 10/28/01, Jacques Le Clainche wrote:
>Listers,
>
>Just toying with an idea... Thinking of how much work it would be to make
my
>race bugeye "street legal"? - I have all the street "bits", by the way...
>the car was on the road from 1972 to 1999... was a race car before and
after
>those dates.
>
>Sooo... engine detuned (to run unleaded gas)... Lose the welded diff...
>Lights, turn signals, muffler, windscreen...Horn?... Bumpers (in Ca)?...
>What else?
>
>Jacques Le Clainche in San Diego county

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