Phil,
Unless you live in Michigan you cannot claim the road salt capital title. :-)
Les Myer
----Original Message-----
>From: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
>To: "'Chris Kotting'"
<ckotting@iwaynet.net>;"spridgets@autox.team.net"<spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca
>Reply-To: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
>Date: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:22 PM
>
>True, My Midget still has a "Burbank Sportscar Center" badge on it.
>
>Phil Vanner
>Neither East nor West, but the Road Salt Capital of the World.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Kotting [SMTP:ckotting@iwaynet.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 6:27 AM
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca
>
>I don't know that they necessarily crossed either pond. I'd wager that
>just as many ended up going north and east, where "rust free" is such a
>rarity!
>
>Chris Kotting
>ckotting@iwaynet.net
>
>On Tuesday, April 07, 1998 5:04 AM, bhndrson@west.net
>[SMTP:bhndrson@west.net] wrote:
>>
>> Larry Miller wrote:
>>
>> >Amen to that. I have also noticed that most of the activity is in the
>> >Mid-East to East. Very rare to see an english car for sale around here
>> >(California Central Coast). I have not seen one being parted out for at
>> >least 10 years. More Rolls than Spridgets in this part of CA and it used
>to
>> >be a sports car Mecca.
>>
>>
>> I totally agree that southern California used to have more LBCs than you
>can
>> shake a stick at, but they have become rather rare, perhaps exceedingly
>so.
>> I would venture a guess that many of the LBCs originally found in the
>> southwestern United States have been purchased and shipped out of the
>> country back to Europe and Japan. Rust is a major factor in purchasing
>one
>> of these little beasties and southern California and Arizona have always
>> been places where people look for a car if they are interested in a good
>> example.
>>
>> Bruce Henderson
>> 1969 Sprite
>
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