Hey guys,
I just thought I would send this to pi$$ everyone off, I know it did me!!!
We are about to buy a Corvair for Melia's everyday driver, so I just joined the
Corvair list. The sig at the bottom of my messages quickly sparked a bunch of
e-mails about a LBC lover appearing in their mist. As it turns out, several of
these guys have or have had LBC's, and even a couple of Sprites, and I got allot
of quick sprite questions about my car, and sprites in general. Since I first
signed on late this afternoon, the corvair list has Sprites as a major topic
thread.
But then the below message just came through. That Corvair list is really good
and most folks are exceptionally helpful, almost as good as over here. This guy
REALLY seems to hate LBC's though, read his responce to this note dropped in the
list.
Patton
PS the list community (Virtual Vairs) is a chartered chapter of the Corvair
national club (CORSA), I thought that was interesting.
Name changed for protection wrote:
> In a message dated 98-03-03 22:15:20 EST, Namechanged for protection writes:
>
> << I always liked 'sprites. Never had the opportunity to drive one but in
> my younger days, I thought they were really ?cute?. >>
>
> Paul I`ll sum it up for you as I have had on many occasions worked on and
> driven them ( ex girfriend of 6 years had one and " Tried to drive it daily "
> ) . The cute ness ends as soon as you try to enter the door ( the narrow
> opening grabs your kidney and hurts you bad ) . Now as you try to squeeze your
> legs into ( I`m 5 foot 9 and have a hard time ) the little box area where then
> intend for you to lay into and finally drop in . Now suffering you close the
> door ( granted you have the top down and didnt knonk your head if it was up )
> .
> Noticing the small wind sheild with 3 miniture wipers and looking down the
> hood glance back in too start her up ( hey that shifter is high and the arm is
> at at funny angle cause the tunnel ( trans ) is protrunding so much in the car
> . Now if your luck is good it may start ( but coming from a country were
> it
> rains so much these cars wont start if a dog pees on the tire ). once under
> way you will notice that the trans has no syncs in it and the engine has no
> power coming out . ( Love them British )
> Needless to say you cant see your feet but you can feel them cause they
> hurt ,and are hot . At speed you can notice that it seems they forgot about
> suspension ( a vair is a cloud compared to it ) little buggy springs under
> neath , steering is light due to a massive steering wheel at your nose as well
> as the wind sheild , brakes well it does manage stop ( unless it has drums
> then it slows , but then again as it has a hard time getting up to speed you
> dont want to ruin the fun by stopping too soon . I see this is getting a bit
> long so I`ll stop it here ( they are cute so are pupies and babies but this
> one never grew up till the japanise -mazda " miata" did it . Hope you get the
> chance to drive one and comment ....
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Patton Dickson---Dallas, TX---1967 A-H Sprite---H-AN9-L/69437
My Sprite Site http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/1256/page2.html
Hey LBC'ers come to Spriterush - Carlisle PA, May 11-14
Go to http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut for more information
Sprites-Midgets-Minis-Minors-Big Healeys-MG's other BMC models are welcome.
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