Yeah, right bumper boy! ;7)
Jeff
AN5 (and loving it) 11627
-----Original Message-----
From: J. Adrian Barnes <adrian@icx.net>
To: spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: Can't we all just get along?
>Figured I'd jump in here and solve this for everybody: the rubber bumper
>Midgets got 'em all beat! heh heh
>
>adrian,
>stirring up more trouble
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>Editors, Molecular Vision wrote:
>
>> Fred, Fred, Fred...
>>
>> The Sprite Mk2 was introduced a month before the Midget Mk1. Sprites are
>> the real deal. OK, the two are the same car except for all that tacky
>> chrome on the Midgets. I personally could never own a Midget; it would
just
>> be too confusing. My nickname for my wife is "Midget" because she's one
of
>> the few people who is shorter than me!
>>
>> Actually, as many on the list know, the back end of the spridget body was
>> designed by BMC/MG, while the front end was designed by Healey. The two
>> cars of course were manufactured by BMC at the MG Abingdon works on
>> side-by-side assembly lines. I've always thought that the front was very
>> curvy and evoked a 50s response, while the back, with it's straighter
>> lines, was 60s all the way.
>> ---
>>
>> At 12:40 PM -0500 9/11/98, Fred Krampits wrote:
>> > Well:
>> > I've been very kind to Sprite owners in the past, however I know and
>> > they know that the Midget starting in 1961 is the same car as the
>> > Sprite, however just like my old Olds Firenza when compared to a Chevy
>> > Cavalier, it is a fancier, more luxurious version of the same car. The
>> > Midget has more chrome, better interior, and superior gauges. Overall
>> > the Sprite/Midget introduced in 1961 was a better car than the Bugeye,
>> > especially in 1962 when the Ribcase Tranny was introduced. Bugeye
>> > Sprites do have their charm, but God help if you ever lose anything in
>> > the boot. The only way their owners make their car livable nowadays is
>> > to put in Japanese transmissions and basically change the character of
>> > the car. Something I don't have to do in my Midget MK I 109CG. But when
>> > compared to each other, on any model, the Midget always wins on style
>> > points.
>> > --
>> > Deflector shields at full strength.
>>
>> > Frank Clarici wrote:
>> > >
>> > > The difference between a Sprite and a Midget is obvious!!!
>> > > The Sprite is just better.
>> > > (flame sheilds up)
>> > > --
>>
>> Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
>> Senior Editor, Molecular Vision
>> http://www.molvis.org/molvis
>> Mailto:jboatri@emory.edu
>> 404-778-4113
>>
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