off the top of my head:
A Hot Motoring 'Great'
-----Original Message-----
From: Wiedemeyer <boxweed@thebest.net>
To: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: June 19, 1999 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: Friday spridget musings, Was: Calling All Midgets
>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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