[Spridgets] Adjustable shocks

[HealeyRick]

Daniel,

There was probably some discussion about how crazy Sprite guys were.  But I
think it was sometime after I crawled under the bugeye and removed the rear
shock so I could shoot some pics for you.  The take away from this story is
how much spridget folks are similar around the world.  We all tend to value
how much these cars achieved while being at the bottom end of the sports car
market.



Rick


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--- On Thu, 10/13/11, WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com <WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com>
wrote:

From: WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com <WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Adjustable shocks
To: healeyrick at yahoo.com
Cc: spridgets at autox.team.net
Date: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 12:38 PM



 
 


I'll bet that was 1990 or thereabouts.  Did your wife tell you that a
small boy answered the phone before she picked up the phone?  'You guys are
nuts!'
 
Weslake Monza 1330
 
 
In a message dated 13/10/2011 05:08:01 GMT
Daylight Time, 
healeyrick at yahoo.com writes:
Peter 
  the Parts Pimp has done
a great job coming up with an alternative to 
  the
original adjustable shockers.  OTOH, they're nowhere near as 
  pretty as my
original Armstrong adjustables.  I bought what was 
  probably the last NOS
adjustable rear shock in the late '70s when BL was 
  selling off the last of
the
Special Tuning parts.   I ended up 
  with one shock and sourced the opposite
side from AH Spares, that sold me a 
  rebuilt one.  They were for the MKII
forward cars, but I was able to 
  adapt them to my bugeye with a modified
mounting plate.

So they're 
  very special to me.  Not for any increase in performance to
the
Bugeye, but for the telephone call I received one evening.  My 
  wife told me
I
got a call from some guy named Dan Stapleton from the UK 
  that wanted some
info
on my shocks.  Probably shows how old I am, but 
  at that time, an overseas
call
was a big deal.  I called Dan back and 
  ended up shooting some pics of the
shocks that ended up in his first 
  Spridget tuning book.

So when I look under my Bugeye rear end and see 
  the adjustable shocks,  I
get
reminded of a long friendship with 
  Daniel instead of an increase of rear
grip
on the Bugeye.

Cheers, 
  Daniel.



Rick