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[Fwd: Re: 14" Wheels on Spridgets]

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Subject: [Fwd: Re: 14" Wheels on Spridgets]
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:24:48 +0000
The US market RB cars have frame rails that run across the inner fenders out to 
the front of the grille opening that hold the front bumper on. Converting one 
to the earlier grille is a real pain because of them. You have to carefully cut 
them off in order to fit the Sprite grille that shows in the pictures. The 
front turn signals are not RB nor is the dash (mid-years steel spridget). The 
rear of the car has the curve under the tail lights that the RB cars did not. 
Are the home market cars the same??? OR, does Frank have a relative in the UK 
and this car is a 2nd cousin twice removed to Pieces?

Kent
1960 Bugeye

Very interesting but I wonder why he did this on a 1977 shell, unless
the UK cars didn't carry the extra poundage.
 
Note the absence of bumpers. What extra poundage? Without bumpers, you might as 
well start with an RB, since you are discarding the drivetrain anyway.

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