[Spridgets] Spridgets?

[WFO Herb]

Perhaps they should be referred to as "New Sprite".

Mini...New MINI

Beetle...New Beetle

Others???


On 7/27/07, Robert Bruce Evans <b-evans at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Perhaps I can put all of this questioning in perspective, for I was around
> when the news came out that Donald Healey had announced a successor to the
> Austin-Healey Sprite that for some still unknown reason he was going to call
> the Sprite Mark II.
> I can tell you that all of the Sprite owners I knew were aghast and
> appalled by the "new" apparition.  First, we felt it was ridiculous it was
> for it to be called a Sprite "Mark II" when there had never been a Mark
> I!  Beyond that, the looks  of the new design were so put-offish.  It didn't
> even look like a REAL Sprite.  And that was all that Sprites were generally
> known by "in the beginning".  No "Bugeye", no "Frogeye", they were simply
> Sprites.
> So what did we call those new things?  "Wannabe Sprites".  So to me, the
> first was was the only true Sprite, although we did call the newer ones the
> "new Sprites" to make a distinction, and when MG was thrown into the mix, we
> still called each either a new Sprite or a Midget.  It would be years before
> I heard the term "Spridgets".  (I often wonder who first coined the word.)
> Now that is the unvarnished truth.  From my Mesozoic perspective.
> Buster
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