[Spridgets] Carlisle import show

[Weslake1330]

I wish I could be there.  I was a five yearly event for me.  I remember see
the small race-type alternator on Frank's green Bugeye in 98 and thinking
I've got to get something like that.  Nothing like that was available until
I helped Cambridge Motorsport develop one (moveable backing plate and
several test fits on my car to then get a productionised one made.  Then
there was the year Alan found me a 1275 Spridget flywheel in a bin - it
came back to the UK with me and I'm not sure where it is now.  From the
same bin came a cast iron thermostat housing - not sure why anyone that
doesn't have the air pump still uses the iron housing - it went on to fame
but not fortune being featured in at least 2 editions of a certain Spridget
book.  I still have it.

Saw a lot of straw at Carlisle but no animals eating it.

My budget was always tight and a seminar helped pay the bills.  I think it
was Alan who asked one year how many seminar went to which I replied 'who
cares they've paid me and that's the most important thing!'

Hope you all have a great time.

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 3:16 PM Alan via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> I can fondly recall preparing weeks before the Carlisle show looking
> forward to
> Setting up a booth and then the hourly walk arounds partly to socialize,
> partly to covertly rummage for more parts. Anticipating the weather
> wildcard.
> Then gathering for lunch at the food concession area. Later to settle on a
> dinner place and enjoy staging our cars outside and answering curious
> onlookers questions.
> Frank, Biff, Kevin, Chuck, Rick, Franky, Rob, Linda and several others I
> have
> Probably forgot about. But all of us made it a great yearly event.
> My last few trips saw less and less vendors, fewer hobbyists, and a
> constant
> struggle to maintain our own Import Show identity.
> The 7% sales tax slapped on didn't help either
> I read Bud's post and can relate completely.
> Just wanted to add my .02 worth about this coming weekend in Pennsylvania.
> Alan
>
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