[Spits] Restorable? Your thoughts appreciated

[Joe Curry]

There was a guy on the TR list up in BC Canada a few years ago who was
restoring a very rusty TR4. He was doing so much fabrication that he got the
nickname McGuyver!

Joe
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Rhodes" <krhodes1 at maine.rr.com>
To: "Spitfires" <spitfires at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Spits] Restorable? Your thoughts appreciated


> At 03:44 PM 7/31/2008, Luke Lewis wrote:
> >Wow - that car is more solid than either of mine, and one of mine is my
> >driver!  You don't see a solid car here in Canada though - period -
unless
> >it's been babied it's whole life, restored or brought up from the States.
> >That looks to me like a very worthwhile project, I wish either of mine
had
> >been that good to begin with!  Guess it's a POV issue!
>
> This is so true. I am a subscriber to the British Magazine "Practical
> Classic". What folks on the other side of the pond will tackle for a
> restoration is mind-boggling. This month's issue has a reader
> restoration of a square-tail spit where they guy replaced something
> like 75% of the metal in the car! All by himself in his (probably
> tiny) garage! Makes me thankful for my never-had-any-real-rust
> Spitfire that originally lived in Texas. But ultimately, restoring a
> rough car has to be a labor of love. But really, anything cheap and
> cheerful is a money-losing proposition so it needs to be that way anyway.
>
> Kevin Rhodes
> Westbrook, Maine
> Freddy the Spitfire, owned 12 years now, better than ever.
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