- 21. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "MICHAEL CARPENTER" <MAIL4CARPENTERS@peoplepc.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:36:09 -0500
- It's that absolute thing again. I have found in life that a person cannot always go with an absolute viewpoint. I always like to accept that differences do occur and back in the 50's and 60's on smal
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00715.html (8,608 bytes)
- 22. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:45:02 EST
- <<<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 thi
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00717.html (8,011 bytes)
- 23. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:18:03 -0500
- Some proof. I have an old CHROME arrow part # 7227180 it also has a circle with what looks like a diamond and the letter w in it. Very small. I also have a repro chrome arrow, Wang's best and it has
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00735.html (8,263 bytes)
- 24. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: b-evans@earthlink.net
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:34:57 -0800
- MICHAEL CARPENTER wrote: "That having to appear at work thing gets in the way ;^). Notice that I just said "appear". Thankfully, if it were not for places of employment that have computers, we would
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00740.html (7,922 bytes)
- 25. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:37:01 -0600
- Does this mean that Chuck is going to have to have his tattoo edited?
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00741.html (7,619 bytes)
- 26. RE: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "David Ramsey" <dwramsey@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:45:15 -0800
- Yours is chrome NOS in the box, mine is gold paint on the car. Which one do you think cost more to make? If the factory could save a penny on a part they did. Like in "oh you want a front bumper and
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00746.html (8,405 bytes)
- 27. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "Charles Christ" <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:12:57 -0500
- aw man! i did not wanna have the tattoo redone! rats! chuck. (well at least the saab one is right!...i think?)
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00751.html (7,869 bytes)
- 28. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:55:26 EST
- Where I live the locals (I was born and bred elsewhere) call a bread roll a batch. So a batch could be made from dough.
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00766.html (8,594 bytes)
- 29. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: b-evans@earthlink.net
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:32:39 -0800
- Yeah, but does YOURS have Donald Healey's signature on the back with his handwritten note, "To Buster Evans. Keep this so that in the future you will be able to prove to others what an original boot
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00779.html (8,819 bytes)
- 30. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "MICHAEL CARPENTER" <MAIL4CARPENTERS@peoplepc.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:47:23 -0500
- "Batch" as in batch process. Welcome to manufacturing terminology. Batch process as opposed to a continuously-run line producing the same product as a lot of commodities are produced. I can explain f
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00782.html (9,184 bytes)
- 31. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "MICHAEL CARPENTER" <MAIL4CARPENTERS@peoplepc.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:53:56 -0500
- The NOS box is the good old BMC box that is red white and blue striped etc. The paper part number adhered to the top and side of box state that it is: 14A 4859 WB QTY ONE The Sprite flash was obtaine
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00783.html (9,691 bytes)
- 32. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: type79@ix.netcom.com
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:10:55 -0500 (EST)
- Assuming for the moment that this is the emblem that came in that box, the fact that this is a later box and not one produced when the cars were in production, does not give any support to any arguem
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00784.html (10,136 bytes)
- 33. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "MICHAEL CARPENTER" <MAIL4CARPENTERS@peoplepc.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:29:15 -0500
- Hi Jay, I am curious as to what the BMC parts boxes looked like when Bugeyes were new. I have only seen the blue red and white striped boxes. I can understand your point of view. However, I do not pl
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00785.html (11,648 bytes)
- 34. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: type79@ix.netcom.com
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:48:47 -0500 (EST)
- I misread your email about the boxes. What you describe is a period box. Regardless, believe what you wish. If you choose not to believe what is published in period factory publications nor evidence
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00786.html (12,545 bytes)
- 35. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "MICHAEL CARPENTER" <MAIL4CARPENTERS@peoplepc.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:01:52 -0500
- Hi Jay, I just wish that winter to would go away. Cabin fever . . . I do wonder about the chrome Sprite arrows as lets face it, the good arrow does not match anything.
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00788.html (13,674 bytes)
- 36. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: b-evans@earthlink.net
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:51:24 -0800
- I think that the very fact that the only badge you possess came in a box speaks for itself. Yours did not come *on* a Sprite, but rather in a box from a shelf. However, the contention that your "the
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00789.html (9,188 bytes)
- 37. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "Brad Fornal" <tequila.brad@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:12:31 -0600
- As Jay pointed out, all available evidence demonstrates the badges attached to the vehicles when they left the factory were gold in color, and no evidence has been presented to the contrary. No one i
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00793.html (9,111 bytes)
- 38. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: "MICHAEL CARPENTER" <MAIL4CARPENTERS@peoplepc.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:59:57 -0500
- Come on Frank. I need your help. They are ganging up on me ;^)! MC -- Original Message -- From: b-evans@earthlink.net To: MICHAEL CARPENTER Cc: type79@ix.netcom.com ; Spridgets Sent: Wednesday, Febru
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00795.html (9,509 bytes)
- 39. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:08:31 EST
- Bugeye rear arrow emblems were gold. Period. jay fishbein The Jay hath spoken He said it I beleive it nuff said... _Robert B. Houston Rampant, Inc. Transervicios SA de CV _ (http://www.quotationspage
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00796.html (8,894 bytes)
- 40. Re: Sprite boot emblem (score: 1)
- Author: Billy Zoom <billyzoom@billyzoom.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:11:08 -0800
- I'm glad I have a MKll. I already have enough stress in my life. FWIW, I think chrome looks better, but I'd probably just fill the holes. It would make it easier to wax. BZ
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00797.html (8,461 bytes)
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