[Spridgets] Big online / live auction

[MICHAEL CARPENTER]

Hi Bud,

I hope that someone does save them.  However, there are so many more sound 
starting points than these rust buckets.  I've learned that it is always 
better to save up for a bit longer and invest with one that is much less 
rusty.  Unless, of course, you're related to Guido.  Then it is a weekend 
restoration.

I guess that my viewpoint is to find the creampuff in someones garage that 
is for sale verses the rust bucket out in the field that was left for dead 
about 35 years ago.

Restorers in England would find these as prime restoration material also.

I understand the desperation thing also, though.

Mike C
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz at hky.com>
To: "'Mike/Donna Carpenter'" <mail4carpenters at peoplepc.com>; "'David Lieb'" 
<dbl at chicagolandmgclub.com>; "'Spridget List'" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:12 PM
Subject: RE: [Spridgets] Big online / live auction


> When original sheet metal keeps getting more and more difficult to
> obtain, and reproductions are only so-so, it is amazing what some guys
> will pay for REALLY rusty stuff.  Saw a pile of rust scale, at Import
> Carlisle a few years ago, that bore a very strong resemblance to an
> XK-120 front clip.  Someone snapped that thing right up, and paid over
> $1000 for it!  I mean, the thing looked as much like a giant, rusty
> spaghetti colander as it did a front end clip.
> While I agree that the one with the supercharger looks like toast, a lot
> of those parts will probably end up being salvageable & restorable.
> Guys native to, and living in California, the Pacific NW, and the desert
> SW will have a hard time understanding that we in the salt belt view
> restoration candidates vs. parts cars in a completely different way than
> you guys do.  My old favorite saying that "desperate men do desperate
> things" really applies, here.
> Bud Osbourne
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spridgets-bounces+abcoz=hky.com at autox.team.net
> [mailto:spridgets-bounces+abcoz=hky.com at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
> Mike/Donna Carpenter
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:43 PM
> To: David Lieb; Spridget List
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Big online / live auction
>
> They all pretty much look like decent parts cars.  Too much of that
> Northeast rust thing going on.
>
> The one with the supercharger looks to be toast!
>
> Mike C
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: David Lieb <dbl at chicagolandmgclub.com>
>>Sent: Jan 10, 2008 12:57 PM
>>To: Spridget List <spridgets at autox.team.net>
>>Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Big online / live auction
>>
>>> Ran across this on ebay - a live auction of about 50 cars in
> Hatfield, PA
>>> (near Phila), including TEN bugeyes in various states of disrepair.
>>> Here's a link to the bugeyes only - you can get to the rest of it
> from
>>> there....
>>> http://tinyurl.com/2cdu28
>>>
>>> Hopefully someone can find something worthwhile.
>>
>>We should all be there! Did you notice in the description that all 10
> are
>>"1961 Bugeyes"? Historical vehicles, to be sure.
>>Anon