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Re: Friday spridget musings, Was: Calling All Midgets

To: Jeff Boatright <jboatri@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: Friday spridget musings, Was: Calling All Midgets
From: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:37:27 -0700
Cc: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
References: <l03130306b39053f747ba@[163.246.49.155]>
Reply-to: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
You mean the AHMG Spridget.  We all know who came first!
Mike MacLean-60 Sprite

Jeff Boatright wrote:

> You sick 'em, Herb!
>
> Actually, after reading a lot about the Healeys, MG, and BMC, I'm convinced
> that we should make new badging for the cars, brass tops, key fobs, and
> everything. The original Sprite design was pure Healey - heck, a lot of was
> Geoff Healey. But, production was all MG Abingdon. As the son of a
> production engineer, this means to me that the car is a true amalgam of MG
> and Healey, and not just because they all were built in the same factory.
> >From what I've read, the workforce at MG was what made MG cars special.
> Conversely, what made Healeys special was the Healey team - Donald and
> Geoff Healey, Roger Menadue, the works department, etc. So, our cars get
> the best of both worlds: best designers, developers, engineers, and
> constuctors. Yep, pretty much, the rest of the car world should bow to us
> reverantly. Of course, the car really should be called the MGAH Spridget.
> This, in fact, is the final name to the Star Wars thread...
>
> Drive 'em hard this weekend,
>
> Jeff
>
> At 3:35 PM -0400 6/18/99, Herb_Goede@amsinc.com wrote:
> > Phil
> >
> > Don't give me that poor little MG garb***.  Ever tried to buy an AH logo
> > brass top for your carbs?  How about a key with the Sprite symbol on it?
> > Chrome covers for H1s.
> >
> > Big Healey owners treat us worse than Porsche 911 owners treat the 914
> > crowd.  You know "Sprites aren't real Healeys 'cause they were made in
> > Abbingdon".
> >
> > As you can see the therapy has not been effective.
> > Herb G.
>
> Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
> Senior Editor, Molecular Vision
> http://www.molvis.org/molvis
> Mailto:jboatri@emory.edu
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