[Spridgets] Grandson's 1st Brit vehicle

[Jim Johnson]

Gawd that brings back memories!!  Americans don't know what they are missing
with a real English "pram" (short for "perambulator").  They are infinitely
better than any baby buggy ever sold in this country. Post a pic for us all,
Grandpa!

Cheers!!
Jim

P.S. Good to talk to ya the other day!

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Frank <spritenut at comcast.net> wrote:

> Frankie the 5th just took possession of his first classic British vehicle.
> A 1972 genuine English pram (aka baby buggy)
> Back in 72, my soon to be boss was stationed in England, his wife had a
> girl, she bought a cool looking baby buggy while over there.
> His 2nd child also used that pram. Flash forward to 1979, I have a son, my
> boss gives me the pram since his girls have out grown it, now they are 7
and
> 5.
> We use it for our kids until about 1983, now it's an aging baby buggy.
> We gave it to relatives who used it and put it away until now. We forgot
> about it, they gave it back today,  a rusty fadded buggy.
> So Diane bleached the frilly lace and repainted the snaps white, she
> cleaned the Wilton Wool coach and I spent the day brass wheeling and steel
> wooling all the chrome and each of the 14 spoke wire wheels and bleaching
> the solid rubber white tires.
> This thing came out stunning! All chrome wheels, frame, handle, brake bars
> etc and a blue coach with white frilly.
> It beats the heck out of the chinese made plastic POS the kids tried to
> use.
> This thing has chrome fenders over wire wheels! Not plastic molded tires on
> plastic wheels with no fenders.
> Oh there are no warning labels plastered all over the pram in 4 languages
> and I guess the kid could get his fingers pinched if he sticks them in the
> folding metal frame, or he could get sick if he gnaws the chrome off the
> handle but it will not collapse if he jumps around, the tires will not wear
> out after a few trips to Grandpa's house, and there is not a spec of
plastic
> on the thing anywhere.
> Daughter in law loves it, all the neighbors saw it and the new born today,
> the ladies admired the baby, the men admired the coach.
> Now they can put the "new" buggy where it belongs, in the trash with the
> rest of the chinese crap and maybe when my son becomes a granddad, he can
> clean up the pram for his grandkid. I know it will last another 37 years.
>
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> My own Fleet of Sprites
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Cheers!!
Jim
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am
not
sure about the former. - Albert Einstein