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Re: Bugeye aftermarket oddities

To: Rick & Carolyn <walters@mail.softcom.net>
Subject: Re: Bugeye aftermarket oddities
From: Pete & Caroline Phillips <phillipp@cfw.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:53:11 -0400
Cc: James D Rowan <jimrowan@uic.edu>, spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
References: <Pine.A41.3.96.971118090509.119126B-100000@tigger.cc.uic.edu> <347230EB.4220@mail.softcom.net>
Reply-to: Pete & Caroline Phillips <phillipp@cfw.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
I have one of these on my Bugeye, and it's not too bad looking. If you
want to see ugly, find a picture of the one they made for the front.

Pete Phillips
61 Bugeye

Rick & Carolyn wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> I have a bumper like this in my supply of parts, it attaches to the
> overiders and spans between them.  I agree it is deffinately ugly.  But
> who am I to judge I drive a citron colored B.  If you are wondering what
> color citron is, it's chartreus, Okay, okay it's tennis ball
> green/yellow.
> 
> Rick
> 
> 52 MGB, 74 B, 76 XJ12C, & Puddles (60 Frogeye)
> 
> James D Rowan wrote:
> >
> > I'm finally getting around to inventory the parts I received when I
> > purchased my car. In the pile I found a rear bumper, I think. It is a
> > single piece of chromed tubing that spans the width of the car and is
> > shaped like this:
> >  _________
> > (_________)
> >
> > Is this an aftermarket unit? I've not seen one on a car before and after
> > imagining what it would look like I know why. Very ugly.
> >
> > Also, the previous owner has, somewhere in his garage, a set of
> > "shark-fins" that he said fit behind the drivers/passengers heads giving
> > it that Mach V speed racer look. Sound funky or what?
> > He said he got them from the PO who was the original owner. Has anybody
> > seen or heard of these "fins" before? I'm hoping he finds them so I can
> > at least see them. It would turn the Sprite into the batmobile-Sprite.
> >
> > Fins on a Healey?
> > What next?
> >
> > Jim
> > 60 Sprite

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