[Spridgets] A Sunday with Frankie

[Linda Grunthaner]

Nicely stacked Healeys : )
Linda
62 Sprite Pinky

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Robert Duquette via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Hey Chuck!
>
> Yeah, the '73 is still in the building.  Just sitting and waiting.  That's
> it on the left of the picture from this past fall.
> The other red Midget is still using its engine.
> That was an event.  I'm still amazed that you did that!!
> What was the question that they asked you at the border?
> "Have you ever met this guy?  How do you know that he's not smuggling
> something in the car?"  Or, something like that ...
> Time marches on, eh? (Or does it race? 😉)
> My son just got married a couple of weeks ago.
> [image: image1.jpeg]
> Yeah, I still have some cleaning up to do in there!
>
> Robert
> I intend to live forever, or die trying.
>
> On Mar 6, 2018, at 10:14 PM, crusaderchuck55 at aol.com via Spridgets <
> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
> I had the pleasure of being in New Jersey on Sunday spending some time
> rummaging through his fathers parts collection.   We spent some time
> discussing the lack of spirited list conversations compared to 20 years
> ago.  A number of noteable names were discussed.  I'm now realising why the
> list seems so quiet.  Quite a few of the people we discussed have passed
> away. Frankie reads things posted here .  I told him I miss rants like
> "donkey dung fired Chinese forges making moss repros".  Or "crap harbor
> freight knock off tools that fail in a day at a job site" !   That and i
> remembered Montana Bob...who could forget those blistering exchanges?  The
> Valentine's LBC rallies.  And the moving of people's cars they bought
> across the country from one trailer to another until the car got to it's
> New owner.  Following these events and participating brought us together
> tighter than some families.  Even sprite sprees were well attended. That
> was then.
>
> Hey Robert? Still have the midget that almost would not cross the border?
> My son lost his first tooth sitting unavoidably detained by Canadian border
> authorities on that trip...my son turned 22 last December.
>
> Well we have all grown older.  Some of us have "left the building".
>
> Others just moved on.
>
> I do not do any social media stuff.  I'm on the vintage Saab yahoo list
> and spridgets list and the aermacchi ( Italian Harley Davidson) list.
> Those are my media.
>
> So if ya wanna find me....I'm still here.   And I'm still ferrying around
> cars , fiddling with saab's and spridgets, locating missing bits I need and
> slowly working my way back onto a race track near you!
>
> ( some stuff just does not change....)
>
> Chuck
> Sent from my LG Mobile
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"Pay if forward" in honor of Frank Clarici III, Spritenut
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