[Spridgets] Old guys

[CosmicMag1380]

I turned 65 last December... I have been noticing for quite a while that
MANY things are going to the wayside. When us old guys are gone, so are a
lot of things that we take for granted. I did an R/C aircraft show last
year and could count the number of young guys walking around the show on
one hand! Nobody wants to actually build a plane anymore... If you can't
buy it, charge it and fly it, it won't sell. It was at a county fairgrounds
field house with over 200 tables. Almost all old white guys - I did see 2
older black guys there.

Same with both of my gun clubs, my car club, etc. Hopefully I'll live long
enough to get my grandkids interested in real hobbies instead of video
games. My kids don't care about my Bugeye, tools, R/C stuff or fishing
gear. My guns are worth money so they will probably take them and sell 'em
when I'm gone. At least my granddaughters like to reload ammo with me!

Anybody wanna by a boat? Trying to downsize even though I built a bigger
shed...

Kent

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 3:09 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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-- 
Kent
1960 Bugeye
1983 Garage full of spridget parts!
2010 Arrow shed full of excess spridget parts!!!
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