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Re: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca

To: lmyer@sprynet.com
Subject: Re: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca
From: Daniel Thompson <dthompso@total.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 20:37:09 -0400
Cc: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Organization: GBC Asset Management Inc.
References: <199804072236.PAA13723@m8.sprynet.com>
Reply-to: Daniel Thompson <dthompso@total.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
lmyer@sprynet.com wrote:
> 
> Phil,
> 
> Unless you live in Michigan you cannot claim the road salt capital title. :-)
> 
> Les Myer
> 
> ----Original Message-----
>    >From:       Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
>    >To:         "'Chris Kotting'" 
><ckotting@iwaynet.net>;"spridgets@autox.team.net"<spridgets@autox.team.net>
>    >Subject:            RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca
>    >Reply-To:           Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
>    >Date:       Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:22 PM
>    >
>    >True, My Midget still has a "Burbank Sportscar Center" badge on it.
>    >
>    >Phil Vanner
>    >Neither East nor West, but the Road Salt Capital of the World.
>    >
>    >-----Original Message-----
>    >From:       Chris Kotting [SMTP:ckotting@iwaynet.net]
>    >Sent:       Tuesday, April 07, 1998 6:27 AM
>    >To: spridgets@autox.team.net
>    >Subject:    RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca
>    >
>    >I don't know that they necessarily crossed either pond.  I'd wager that
>    >just as many ended up going north and east, where "rust free" is such a
>    >rarity!
>    >
>    >Chris Kotting
>    >ckotting@iwaynet.net
>    >
>    >On Tuesday, April 07, 1998 5:04 AM, bhndrson@west.net
>    >[SMTP:bhndrson@west.net] wrote:
>    >>
>    >> Larry Miller wrote:
>    >>
>    >> >Amen to that. I have also noticed that most of the activity is in the
>    >> >Mid-East to East. Very rare to see an english car for sale around here
>    >> >(California Central Coast). I have not seen one being parted out for at
>    >> >least 10 years. More Rolls than Spridgets in this part of CA and it 
>used
>    >to
>    >> >be a sports car Mecca.
>    >>
>    >>
>    >> I totally agree that southern California used to have more LBCs than you
>    >can
>    >> shake a stick at, but they have become rather rare, perhaps exceedingly
>    >so.
>    >> I would venture a guess that many of the LBCs originally found in the
>    >> southwestern United States have been purchased and shipped out of the
>    >> country back to Europe and Japan.  Rust is a major factor in purchasing
>    >one
>    >> of these little beasties and southern California and Arizona have always
>    >> been places where people look for a car if they are interested in a good
>    >> example.
>    >>
>    >> Bruce Henderson
>    >> 1969 Sprite
>    >


I submit Montreal as road salt capital of the world. Every spring
(usually in July) they sprinkle asphalt over pure salt roads.

Daniel Thompson

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