<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Kent,</div>I loved the video of you hauling the bonnet up the barn!<div>I am lighting a fire under you now.</div><div>Linda</div><div><br></div><div>62 California Sprite Pinky</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 5:57 PM Kent McLean <<a href="mailto:kentmclean@comcast.net">kentmclean@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Linda wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">Hi Kent,</span><div style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Sounds like the engine has some potential. You might want to add the thread I started in: <a href="https://www.ahexp.com/forum/the-sprite-forum.6/my-new-1960-bugeye-build.233472/" target="_blank">https://www.ahexp.com/forum/the-sprite-forum.6/my-new-1960-bugeye-build.233472/</a>. This way we can continue to see the updates in order with a photo build.</div><div style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Keep us posted either way. I haven't touched any of my fleet because I needed to paint the house and garage this summer inbetween summer teaching. </div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Ha. I promised to paint the house before I started on the Bugeye. We had 35" of rain in July. Needless to say, that job stalled, the Bugeye stalled. I gotta light a fire under my butt before October makes it too cold to paint. Wasn't it Shakespeare's Richard III that said, "A round tuit, A round tuit, My kingdom for a round tuit." or something to that effect.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">"Pay if forward" in honor of Frank Clarici III, Spritenut</span><br></div></div>