[Spridgets] Control Box for 66 Spridget

[Rick Fisk]

Brad,

I have opened it up and I think with a little contact cleaning it will work fine.  The box is kinda grotty and it's missing one screw on the wire connectors, but I think it will work fine after a little cleaning.  Send me your address as I think you have moved south after my last visit.  



Last time I came to visit I got off the freeway near your place and there was a guy in a full cowboy outfit riding down the road on a horse.  Only it wasn't a horse - he was riding a long horn steer with horns at least six feet across.  :-)  That evening we went to a Mexican restaurant in downtown Ft. Worth that you said had been there forever.  I don't remember the food, but I do remember the margaritas.

Rick

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> On Oct 4, 2020, at 7:47 PM, Brad Fornal <tequila.brad at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Why certainly, if you don't mind!! 
> I guess your visits to Texas made a small impression on you. LOL
> The SBC Sprite ended up getting a 150 shot of NOS, and would do the quarter mile in under 10 seconds. The room full of snakes, is just one python, and as I have had her 30 years, and their life span is 28, well..... And the Mexican food still rocks. It's always better with a TOP, top shelf pitcher of margaritas!! TOP, top, is when you use good tequila, like Tres Generaciones, instead of crappy Patron or Cuervo. 
> Did you ever look inside to see if it had any damage? The one I currently have, looks as though it got a lightning strike inside. Melted stuff everywhere. 
> Thanks for remembering, because I had forgotten. 
> Let me know what shipping is, and I'll get the funds to you. 
> 
> Thank you again.
> Brad
> 
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 6:22 PM Rick Fisk <refisk at chartermi.net> wrote:
>> Hey Brad,
>> 
>> Do you remember about 100 years ago when I used to come visit you and Martha and your daughter whenever my job took me to the GM plant in Arlington or Ft. Worth?  Your buddy Dave was building his 350 SBC Sprite at the time, we would go swap meeting, out for great Mexican food, and you had a room full of snakes at your house.  Good memories.  :-)
>> 
>> Anyways, on one of my visits you gave me a brandy new regulator that had somehow been under water for a while.  Still in the factory box too.  I have never used it and it's sitting on the shelf in my garage.  Would you like to have it back?
>> 
>> Rick
>> 
>> Sent from my keyboard
>> 
>>> On Oct 4, 2020, at 7:00 PM, Brad Fornal via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am needing to buy a new control box for my 66. Before I go to the usual suspects, who most likely don't have a clue about Keyser Söze, I thought I would ask
>>> Does anyone have a good one in their spares bin that they would be willing to part with?
>>> If not, who sells the best quality replacement? 
>>> I know that quality was a declining concern in the days of Frank, so today I'm certain it is even worse.
>>> Thanks in advance. 
>>> 
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