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- From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Electronic ignition?
- Message-ID: <3125@contex.contex.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 13:59:03 GMT
- References: <2163.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
- Sender: news@contex.contex.com
- Organization: Xyvision Design Systems
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- In article <2163.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
- >
- >-> I am seriously thinking about buying an older Spitfire. Now, after
- >-> all the laughter has subsided, I have a few questions.
- >
- > I always thought that Michelotti body was gorgeous, myself. Until you
- >lifted the fancy tilt front cap and found the thing was powered by
- >hamsters.
- >
- >
- >-> I have been advised to replface the stock ignition system with an
- >
- >...
- >got it, and it was like Frost's One-Hoss Shay - everything was falling
- >apart at once.
-
- I think that it was not Frost ( Robert Frost ) that wrote One-Hoss
- Shay. I think it pre-dated him. As odd as it may seem I have seen
- this poem cited in various texts as expressing a theory of integrated,
- balanced design. Anybody got the real reference? Yeah, I have it at
- home someplace...
-
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