[Spridgets] Spridgets?

Jim Johnson bmwwxman at gmail.com
Sat Jul 28 21:58:21 MDT 2007


Pointless nomenclature discussion...NEW pointless nomenclature
discussion....  ;-)

Cheers!!
Jim - 68 somkindacar in Dodge City

On 7/28/07, WFO Herb <froggi60 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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