[Spridgets] Old guys

[JohnD]

Reading through all of the sad recollections of interactions with Just Ed
Kaler and then seeing The World's Largest Spridget Driver's comments,
showed me how many "old guys" are still hanging around team-dot-net. Way
before web-based forums and FakeBook groupies, this was the place I would
pilfer government time on the email server and develop my earliest spridget
friendships. Just seeing all your names was a trip down memory lane. And
Chuck, you don't actually SIT on an Aeromacchi, do you?!
John Deikis
Chelsea, MI

*Driving in the past lane!*
JohnsfollyVintageRacing <http://www.johnsfolly.webs.com>

> 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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