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Re: Friday spridget musings, Was: Calling All Midgets

To: "Mike Maclean" <macleans@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Friday spridget musings, Was: Calling All Midgets
From: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 09:33:15 -0400
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Reply-to: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
No!  It has to be MGAH because this is an acronym for "My Great Accelerating
Hotrod", while AHMG doesn't have any good acronyms.

Bob


>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
>> 404-778-4113


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