[Spridgets] Where were you when the LBC bug got you?

[Macy Larry]

Silly girl, you were 3 when we brought the Blue 76 Midget home in 1978.

(BTW, I sent my story a while ago, and I haven't seen it yet.)

Larry (Dad)

On Oct 27, 2011, at 14:46 PM, Kristi & Lambert wrote:

> I am really not sure how old I was when I first saw an  MG, maybe 5 I
think.
> I grew up being my Dad's "Go Fer"  as in "Kristi go for that wrench." or
> "Kristi go for that part" :-)  I would have to say that was when the LBC
bug
> got me.  I always teased my Dad that when he died I was going to get his
> Midget and he would always tell me that he was going to get buried in it.
>
> Over the years I have always had a love for these crazy cars and my Dad
would
> have me go on rallyes with him.  I also remember doing an autocross or two
> with him, so he has helped keep the love alive within me so that someday I
> would own my own LBC.
>
> When my husband and I first started dating I would always talk about the
cars
> and he figured out that I still love the cars.  We got married, had some
> issues with keeping pregnancies and to help cheer me up he got me mine.  He
> had talked with my Dad and found a local person who was selling their '74
> Midget.  On our 2 year wedding anniversary, he got my sister-in-law to
drive
> us both to go get the car (all a surprise to me as I had no idea where we
were
> going and why my sister-in-law was driving us).  Then after I got Mini Lee
I
> would not let my husband drive her so then he had to get his own.  So now
we
> have two LBC's and two daughters who fight over who is going to ride in
which
> Midget with Mom or Dad.
>
>
>
> Kristi & Lambert
> '74 RWA Midget
> '77 RB Midget
>
> Starting the LBC bug in my kids just like my Dad did with me :-)
>
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Jim Johnson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Linda Grunthaner
> <grunthaner at gmail.com>asks:
>>
>>> So what did you see how old were you and what year was it when you got
>>> hooked?
>>>
>>
>> I saw my first BE in about 1960 parked in a neighbors driveway but have to
>> admit I just thought of it as a funny little car.  It was 1965 in England
>> when walking home from the pub one night a strange looking car loomed out
> of
>> the gloom with nothing but running lights and huge wheels and wing
>> fenders....  It was an MG TC and I was instantly smitten - still am for
> that
>> matter.  Within a few months I found and bought a 1946 TC LHD which I
drove
>> all over Europe for a few years. Life intervened until just before my
>> retirement when I decided my retirement present would be another MG TC....
>> That is until I saw what they were selling for!! Finally, I found a Midget
>> in Dallas that was in fairly good condition, bought it and still have it.
>> Warning....   I'd still trade it even up tomorrow for a TC if I could!!
>>
>> Cheers!!
>> Jim
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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy at upenn.edu
Senior IT Program Director
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
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