I think it is a lovely Sprite. Good on ya.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam H" <snhochberg@gmail.com>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Anger as fines from speed cameras soar (David Lieb)
> On a related note....
>
> I once got a late notice in the mail regarding a parking ticket I'd
> supposedly gotten on my Sprite on the South Side of Chicago, 7700 South
> Something-Or-Other Street.
>
> In a fit of naive yet sincere honesty, I wrote them back, saying that: A.
> I'd never been that far on the South Side in my life, and B. I certainly
> wouldn't have driven the Sprite there!
>
> And they believed me and discarded the ticket! They had simply transcribed
> the license plate incorrectly.
>
> And on another tangent (threadjack alert), as an occasional lurker who's
> never posted before (and not even sure this is gonna work) but subscribes
> in
> digest form, maybe someone can tell me why, for the last month or three,
> instead of one daily digest, I now get several daily? I know there was a
> change to the system lately...just curious.
>
> Oh, and I suppose, while I'm de-lurking, I'll brag that this summer,
> thanks
> to a move into a larger garage (with an attached house), I was finally
> able
> to achieve a long-time goal - to go an entire summer without putting the
> top
> up on either of the toys - the '73 911 Targa or the Sprite. Well, I
> lied...there was that one day, on the way home from the AHCA autocross in
> the western Chicago 'burbs, when it started raining hard, really, really
> hard....
>
> And in another bold, unabashed attempt at getting even more off-topic,
> what's a feasible wheel/tire size for a set of Minilites that will fit a
> sqarebody (square wheel arch) Sprite? In case my Most Excellent Wife needs
> me to drop a few more Xmas gift hints?
>
> Here's some pics of the car, from a Chicagoland BCU show right after the
> restoration:
> http://members.tripod.com/PREV_PDLJMPR/despl20.jpg
> http://members.tripod.com/PREV_PDLJMPR/despl21.jpg
> http://members.tripod.com/PREV_PDLJMPR/despl22.jpg
> http://members.tripod.com/PREV_PDLJMPR/despl23.jpg
> This past year, at the same show, we were just pulling out when, over the
> PA, we heard our name called...we'd won the "Diamond In The Rough" award.
> So
> my last question is...was that a compliment?
>
> ...Sam Hochberg
> Already in the throes of severe cabin fever and sports-car withdrawal
> '68 Sprite
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