To all,
The story of my most famous Sprite.... "the Bishop", a Stage V tuned original,
is told at
<http://www.thicko.com/bishop.htm>
WST
Team Thicko
Mike Gigante wrote:
> Lets see, my sons named James (MkIIA sprite). They were reading a Thomas
> the Tank Engine book at the time and one of the pages said "James is Red"
> (followed by Thomas is Blue, etc etc). When I bought home the Monza Red
> sprite, it was immediately christened James.
>
> My wife named bubbles, she doesn't remember why but I suspect it was
> the rust bubbles she noticed!!!
>
> The racecar was named "Fluoro" by everyone who saw it. The paint scheme was
> a bright dayglo orange with white GT stripes. Since the respray I did 2
> years ago
> (colour Mercedes Aqua Blue), it has become known as "Bluoro"!! My boys just
> call
> it 'racecar'.
>
> Bridgette, the british racing green MGBGT was named by poll to the
> british-cars list! I was looking for a suitable female name, one of the
> readers
> suggested bridgette because it was female, contained B R G, and G T.
>
> Redcar ('59 bugeye and my competition rally car) was named by previous
> owner Daren Stone. I have tried hard to rename the car "DeeDee" (CA plates
> were DDH 991), but redcar has stuck....
>
> Our Rover SD1 is called Thomas. For the reason see James above!
>
> I have lots more spridgets, but they are nameless until they are in regular
> use...
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard J. Moses II <dr.moses@juno.com>
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Date: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 1:47 PM
> Subject: LBC's SOBRIQUET
>
> >As I muse over all the Spridget e-mails day-in and day-out there has been
> >a strange urge to ask you all this question. It must be that the stress
> >of preparing for Sprite-Rush '98 has finally taken its toll now that is
> >only a couple of weeks away. My sanity is surly fleeing!
> >
> >I find strange satisfaction in buying AN5 plinths (one to a car, only @
> >50,0000 made and they haven't been reproduced yet) and what/why
> >enthusiasts nickname their cars.
> >
> >So.... please quench this yen .... how in the world did all your LBC pets
> >get their sobriquets???
> >
> >My 1st AN5 aka... Hidin (can't find him in a shoping mall parking lot)
> > 1st HAN9 aka... Buckey (hey what did you expect I am a dentist?
> >No.... he has a chrome bumper bar attached to his lower front dentition)
> >
> >So.... what about your LBC's Sobriquet.... James, Bubbles, Chuckles,
> >Pieces, Helium, etc., etc., etc.???
> >
> >Keep smiling,
> >Rick Moses
> >
> >
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