[Spridgets] Old guys

[Paul Van Wig]

Yea the old days. When we actually typed something not just clicked Like!
59 Metropolitan
68 Morris Woody
60 Bugeye

Paul Van Wig

Big Bear/Lakewood, CA

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:09 PM, JohnD via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> 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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