<div dir="auto"><div>Hi Nory, </div><div dir="auto">If I lived closer to you, I would be interested...</div><div dir="auto">Am sorry to hear about your back. I hope you are not in pain and can deal with life without active Sprite involvement.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hey, I too still have the Holy Sprite T-shirt that Frank sent to me after a treasured memory of meeting the Clarici family in Toms River.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hi Chuck,</div><div dir="auto">Do you remember meeting me at Watkins Glen?</div><div dir="auto">You are correct about this list and its wonderful posts over the years. Sadly, things change and we must adapt. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So, I'm focused on Sprite 60. Have the ferry booked for the AHC UK bash on 20th May and, when funds allow, I will be booking to go to the MASC UK bash in August.</div><div dir="auto">My '59 got rear disks last year and is about to receive new rubber on 14" wires and a brake servo.</div><div dir="auto">Along with 2-sp wipers and 2-sp heater. Plus el rad fan, air horn and a load of other wiring and cosmetic "improvments"! (No originalty here)</div><div dir="auto">All the best to you guys and Linda (pink Sprite?).</div><div dir="auto">I've had some personal trouble in the past, but reading this list has always kept me sane and amused. Thanks again.</div><div dir="auto">Ron... in Ireland.</div><div dir="auto">"Oggibip" 1275; 5-sp; 3.9; ww; all disks; fibre front.</div><div dir="auto">I paid £35 for this car in 1974, and I carefully kept NO record of what I have lovingly spent on her since.</div><div dir="auto">Those of you who keep a Mistress will recognise this "forgetfulness" as a worthwhile condition.</div><div dir="auto">R.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Wed 7 Mar 2018, 06:02 nory1--- via Spridgets, <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The one and only time I met Frank was when he was working on the "Holy Sprite" (I still have that t-shirt). I flew in and bought (and drove home to Buffalo) the Padre's old Midget. I met a number of other members of the list that day too ... what a comaraderie the list had back then!<br>
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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<br>
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