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Re: Spitfire horsepower

To: John Summers <trumpet@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: Spitfire horsepower
From: Brian Kemp <bk13@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:58:57 -0700
Cc: Triumph list <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
References: <35AD92E1.2850@bellsouth.net>
If the car is in good shape and maintained, there's no reason it can't be
reliable.  I'm driving my TR6 from Los Angeles, CA to B.C., Canada next
month.  I plan 700 miles the first day, 550 the second.  I plan four days
for the drive home.

Brian Kemp
72 TR6

John Summers wrote:

> Two qustions:  78 Spitfire  horsepower.  Is it 57 or 81 or something
> else.  I had a hard time keeping up with an old VW Superbeetle entering
> the interstate the other night.  How much horsepower could I reasonably
> expect to gain for $500.00 to $1000.00 Reliability also.  Question #4,
> would I be REALLY crazy to drive from Florida to southern Ohio in my
> Spitfire & how much trouble would I have pulling the mountains in NC
> Virginia & W. Virginia.  #5  Am I NUTS?




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