[Spridgets] Old guys

Tue Mar 20 09:55:03 MDT 2018

I'm glad you appreciated that Guy. I've been around since before
Montana Bob, I just don't chat as much. I used to post from my grad
school .edu email back in the 90's, and at 50, I may be one on the
younger side.

In honor of Montana Bob, here is my obligatory spridget content. The
Bugeye was my first car. I purchased it back in 1983, and I still
drive it to work about once every two weeks. I put disk brakes and a
factory sway bar in a couple of months ago, and I'm in the process of
building a 1275 for it.  The block has been at the machinist for 3
moths now (reminds me that I need to make my weekly call to hear him
say it will be one more week). I added a Riely Elf to the garage a
couple of years back (found it on this list, thank you Billy Zoom).
Replacing the tired 998 with a 1275 convinced me that it is worth the
effort.  At first, I was underwhelmed with the whole Mini experience,
but with the warm 1275, that has turned into a real fun car to drive.
I always was going for originality in the Bugeye, but I've decided
that it will never be a show car, and I should make it the way I want
it.

Brian James

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:28 AM, GUY DAY <grday at btinternet.com> wrote:
> We have just received a message from Daredelvis (and I fully agree with it's
> sentiments) that typifies the messages of today.  One word succinctly and
> successfully entraps all we need to feel.  In the days when I first joined
> in with the Spridgets list, messages went on a little longer, were more
> verbose, were more inflammatory, more argumentative, more amusing.  There
> were jokes posted, ethnic minority ones at that!  Now, the PC police have
> ground the corners off, say what you feel now and wait for a visit from The
> Man who tells you that you can no longer say that as he escorts you to the
> Court Room.  What do you call a building full of wimps? - The Police
> Station.   Well I'll wait for my visit - explosives, bomb, gassing, kill the
> infidel, how to make a pipe bomb or a lock pick - buzz words for the
> automated searcher.  But most of all, I'll still be free in my heart and
> mind, as they were in theirs, as my little Austin Healey Sprite starts up
> and drives around (gun and alcohol free!).
>
> All the best to all,
>
> Guy R Day
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, 20 March 2018, 7:59, daredelvis--- via Spridgets
> <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>
> Like.
>
> On Mar 19, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Paul Van Wig via Spridgets
> <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>> 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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