- 1. Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "Philip Nase" <bugi1960@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:13:11 -0500
- Was the original boot arrow chrome or the gold color. I see both but I don't recall which was original for a 60. Thanks. Phil Nase Quakertown, PA http://home.comcast.net/~philnasecpa
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00642.html (7,486 bytes)
- 2. RE: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "Hal Faulkner" <hal@katemuir.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:32:01 -0800
- According to Horler it was gold. Hal
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00645.html (7,463 bytes)
- 3. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:28:41 -0500
- Interesting question. Gold is what alot of people say is original, yet there are original owners who bought them new and swear they always had chrome arrows. Mine have chrome, I like chrome. I think
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00648.html (7,645 bytes)
- 4. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: b-evans@earthlink.net
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:10:08 -0800
- Gold. Buster
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00658.html (7,717 bytes)
- 5. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: b-evans@earthlink.net
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:13:30 -0800
- I've said it before, and I will say it again. GOLD!!!!! Buster
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00659.html (7,798 bytes)
- 6. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:15:19 -0500
- So why are all mine chrome? Even of Italian decent with uncles laced in gold, I don't like gold arrows. They look too fake and the cheapros look like toys. But I do have a green one too, was that the
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00662.html (8,096 bytes)
- 7. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: Martyn Ridley <ridleymj@bis.on.ca>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:13:31 -0500
- I believe the originals to be gold colour, but I too had a chrome one on the car when I bought it. Not sure, but could it be that MK II sparites (948) came with chrome - to match the boot handle? Reg
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00674.html (8,546 bytes)
- 8. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "MICHAEL CARPENTER" <MAIL4CARPENTERS@peoplepc.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:28:50 -0500
- How sure are you? I have a NOS chrome emblem with original box. MC -- Original Message -- From: <b-evans@earthlink.net> To: "Frank Clarici" <spritenut@comcast.net> Cc: "Philip Nase" <bugi1960@gmail.c
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00677.html (8,758 bytes)
- 9. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: b-evans@earthlink.net
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:45:08 -0800
- Because you had them chromed so you could pass them off as sterling silver? Buster
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00681.html (8,132 bytes)
- 10. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: b-evans@earthlink.net
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:48:30 -0800
- Don't know where you got yours, but mine was on the car when I bought it new off the showroom flood of Bluff City Buick and Imports, Memphis, Tennessee. Course, cuz it was on the car, it don't have
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00682.html (8,400 bytes)
- 11. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: type79@ix.netcom.com
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:10:00 -0500 (EST)
- Bugeye rear arrow emblems were gold. Period. jay fishbein wallingford, ct http://home.netcom.com/~type79/ --Original Message--
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00684.html (9,592 bytes)
- 12. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: Martyn Ridley <ridleymj@bis.on.ca>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:15:09 -0500
- Now I'm intrigued. I pulled out the build book (service manual) and the part is listed as "14A 4859" with no changeover, and the MK II is clearly the later style (also with no changeover) What's on t
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00688.html (8,924 bytes)
- 13. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:12:19 -0500
- You tell him Mike. I knew it. But I have no proof. Just what I have heard from original owners over the years. -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00689.html (8,559 bytes)
- 14. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "63AHBJ7" <63AHBJ7@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:10:53 -0600
- <<Course, cuz it was on the car, it don't have no fancy box.>> But you gots the Original Container (not cruddy ole paper), Buster<G>!!
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00691.html (8,216 bytes)
- 15. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: <bushwacker4@zoomtown.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:50:23 -0500
- How sure are you? I have a NOS chrome emblem with original box. The NOS chrome ones are all over Ebay... Real NOS ones are gold with red insets on the lettering. I have a NOS gold one! Bought it abou
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00693.html (8,185 bytes)
- 16. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: b-evans@earthlink.net
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:41:45 -0800
- Hey, Frank, I'm an original owner and you ain't heard it from me!!! But, I also want to know what manufacturer is shown on Mike's box. Buster
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00698.html (8,216 bytes)
- 17. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: b-evans@earthlink.net
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:57:55 -0800
- In the words of that wise old Marine Corps philosopher, Golleeee! They didn't give me no container the car came in! Hey, wait a minute, that was decades before they even shipped things in containers
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00699.html (8,129 bytes)
- 18. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "MICHAEL CARPENTER" <MAIL4CARPENTERS@peoplepc.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:27:10 -0500
- The "Absolute" approach does not always work! There are often anomolies in life that can't be explained by "Well I bought mine new and it had it so therefore all Sprites had the same one as mine and
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00711.html (8,975 bytes)
- 19. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "MICHAEL CARPENTER" <MAIL4CARPENTERS@peoplepc.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:28:54 -0500
- Don't always believe what you read in books ;^))
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00712.html (9,579 bytes)
- 20. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "MICHAEL CARPENTER" <MAIL4CARPENTERS@peoplepc.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:31:49 -0500
- Mike C -- Original Message -- From: "Frank Clarici" <spritenut@comcast.net> To: "MICHAEL CARPENTER" <MAIL4CARPENTERS@peoplepc.com> Cc: <b-evans@earthlink.net>; "'Spridgets'" <spridgets@autox.team.net
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00713.html (8,527 bytes)
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