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Re: Bugeye aftermarket oddities

To: James D Rowan <jimrowan@uic.edu>
Subject: Re: Bugeye aftermarket oddities
From: Rick & Carolyn <walters@mail.softcom.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 16:20:59 -0800
Cc: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
References: <Pine.A41.3.96.971118090509.119126B-100000@tigger.cc.uic.edu>
Reply-to: Rick & Carolyn <walters@mail.softcom.net>
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Hi Jim,

I have a bumper like this in my supply of parts, it attaches to the
overiders and spans between them.  I agree it is deffinately ugly.  But
who am I to judge I drive a citron colored B.  If you are wondering what
color citron is, it's chartreus, Okay, okay it's tennis ball
green/yellow.

Rick

52 MGB, 74 B, 76 XJ12C, & Puddles (60 Frogeye)



James D Rowan wrote:
> 
> I'm finally getting around to inventory the parts I received when I
> purchased my car. In the pile I found a rear bumper, I think. It is a
> single piece of chromed tubing that spans the width of the car and is
> shaped like this:
>  _________
> (_________)
> 
> Is this an aftermarket unit? I've not seen one on a car before and after
> imagining what it would look like I know why. Very ugly.
> 
> Also, the previous owner has, somewhere in his garage, a set of
> "shark-fins" that he said fit behind the drivers/passengers heads giving
> it that Mach V speed racer look. Sound funky or what?
> He said he got them from the PO who was the original owner. Has anybody
> seen or heard of these "fins" before? I'm hoping he finds them so I can
> at least see them. It would turn the Sprite into the batmobile-Sprite.
> 
> Fins on a Healey?
> What next?
> 
> Jim
> 60 Sprite

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