[Spridgets] Speedwell Clip....

[fastvee]

Thanks for explaining Ron. When I first decided to convert my Sprite to vintage specs I was thoroughly confused with my observations of "Vintage" cars, and I was asking questions here. It seems like vintage is the only place that you can be rewarded for flagrantly ignoring the rule book, and now it includes ignoring the class tire size! I saw an ad yesterday by an SCCA driver selling his Sprite and advertising that it only needs steel fenders to be vintage. This is a car that was a trick limited prep H/P just a couple of years ago, and I suppose we could see it at a vintage event now that the SCCA has screwed up H/P. For a while I was upset at the lack of rules enforcement, but lately I'm thinking the run what you brung approach will be fun. We are in the same boat though, I will be putting an old school engine together, and with the full cage the car has never weighed less than 1450 Lbs. That weight would be OK, but I am 40 Lbs. heavier than when I
 raced this car last! My summer is being consumed with this complete bare metal rebuild, and is a repeat of my summer 30 years ago. 
John
Fogelsville, PA

On Sat, 7/10/10, Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Speedwell Clip....
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets at autox.team.net>, "fastvee" <fastvee at yahoo.com>
Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010, 10:37 PM

The seller of the bonnet is Dave Jahimiak, aka Dr. J., he of the fastest Sprite in the country. White Trash can play with enough to make him notice us (I'm starting to consider my second place finishes as landslide victories), but I am giving away 45 horsepower and 160 pounds of dry weight to him(!!) per our discussion this AM. He also has some unconventional suspension setups and was running 225/45 tires on the car with bizarro custom offset on some $600 Compomotive wheels whereas us mere mortals are getting by with 185/60s.

Anyway, Dave is getting ready for the Kohler Classic (AKA the Brian Redman, AKA, Chicago Historics). At Road America races what is sort of a Devin SS, currently for sale for an optimistic $1.25M: