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Re: Aftermarket Shifters

To: RKEMPINS <RKEMPINS@SSF4.jsc.nasa.gov>,
Subject: Re: Aftermarket Shifters
From: "Spontelli, Ramon" <rs11@ElSegundoCA.NCR.COM>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 96 08:29:00 PST
>  We want pictures of this. Sounds like Ramon meets Mad Max. Get something
>  on the web site.

Ok.  Ok.  I guess I can take a couple of snapshots of the thing.  Nobody 
would believe it if I could describe it accurately anyway!

>  How did reverse work?

Works cool!  There's no lock-out mechanism, just a real stiff spring that 
you have to overpower.  I can just reach down there and muscle it in, but 
Theresia has to rare back and frap it one.

>   Finally, at about 9:30 in
>  the evening, with nothing else to check,
>  ^^^^^^^^^^
>  nice friend - or do all the out of town guests have to earn their keep
>  at the Ramon establishment?  ;^)

This guy earns his keep.  He's from Ft. Wayne, Indiana.  We met on the 
autocross list.  He comes out here on business quite a bit, and he sort of 
has a standing "reservation" for the extra room at our place.

Two weeks ago he spent all day Saturday helping put a new roof on my 
mother-in-law's garage.  Last June he helped design and build a motorized 
contraption that we used to tumble a rust-encrusted Series II Alpine gas 
tank.  And before that, he helped set up the Holley on the Mk II when we 
switched  from the double-pumper to the vacuum-actuated secondaries.

>  > The moral:  Just 'cause a thing was done/brand new yesterday, does not
>  >  mean it's ok today!

>  Sad but true and well understood over here. Good work anyway.

Yeah.  Sort of puts extra significance on that bumper sticker about all the 
parts falling off the car being of the finest British workmanship.  Thank 
you!

Ramon
rs11@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com


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