[Spridgets] Thanks for all your help thru the years

[Brad Fornal]

For anyone else that is preparing to do this repair. I would suggest you
head to your local scrap yard. Look in their pile of bicycles. The cheap
Chinese Wally World bikes have a sweep 90* made out of aluminum on the
front and rear brakes of the bike. Get both of them. When you replace your
cable, put these on both ends to keep the transition smooth, and the cable
no longer will rub on the bonnet.
Just another hint, in the memory of "we tight" Clarici.

On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 4:06 PM Jeff Foster via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Went to pull my '73 Midget out of the garage 1/2 hour before a guy was
> coming to look at it for sale this morning.
>
> One touch of the throttle and the pedal dropped to the floor! Cable broke
> at the carb. I'd been careful to not talk much of a pending sale around the
> car, but somehow it just KNEW, and it wasn't going to make the separation
> easy on me!
>
> THIS is why I was reluctant every time a prospective buyer asked "will I
> be able to jump in and drive it _XXX_ miles back home?"
>
> I remembered a conversation on here from years back - probably from Frank
> - about using a bicycle shift/brake cable.
>
> Quick trip across town and back, a cheap $4 to the local bike shop, and
> maybe 3 minutes work and it's "go time" again!
>
> This is the second time I've let this car go. The new-to-Spridgets buyer
> is from northern Illinois, 3 hours away. I doubt I'll ever see the car
> again, let alone have the opportunity to buy it a 3rd time. ;)
>
> Great bunch of guys and gals here on the Spridget list. I haven't been
> "active" on here for several years but will miss the camaraderie, and the
> comedy.
>
> I have passed info about the list, and the Spridgets Facebook group, to
> the new owners so you may have a new member soon. They seemed like a decent
> couple, prepared to take good care of my car - so I even included the
> freshly powder coated, vintage, Autopower roll bar that I hadn't yet
> installed or mentioned in the ad.
>
> Farewell my friends. Safety fast!
>
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