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Re: Armstrong Siddeley

To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Armstrong Siddeley
From: "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott" <toobmany@bigpond.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:29:40 +1100
Reply-to: "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott" <toobmany@bigpond.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
You're not being set up Rob.  Armstrong Siddeley made luxurious high
performance saloons for a limited UK market.  They were a sort of more
conservative, understated Bentley who's ultimate incarnation was the Star
Sapphire.  The much cheaper Jag Mk VII killed them off along with many
others.

Peter Westcott

PS: If you're from the frozen north are you Canadian, eh?

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From: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Fw: Fw: Sprite colors\ VIN lookup
Date: Tuesday, 16 March 1999 12:11

They did.

Dare I ask what an Armstrong Siddley is ????  Am I supposed to here?  Am I
being  a straight man?

Robert D.

-----Original Message-----
From: Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott <toobmany@bigpond.com>
To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: March 15, 1999 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Sprite colors\ VIN lookup


>I can't see anything wrong with yjr way you spell colour.  Didn't those
>boys also say they were born in a crossflow hurricane?  I know Keef had a
>Bentley but nobody's mentioned an Armstrong Siddley.
>
>Peter Westcott
>
>----------
>From: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
>To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Fw: Fw: Sprite colors\ VIN lookup
>Date: Monday, 15 March 1999 10:41
>
>>>Still cold up there in the Great White North Robert? <<
>No, it's above freezing during daylight hours.  I got cut off by a Harley
>today!  I'm just stressed!  Changing jobs.
>
>So ... those English boys: Mick and Keith think that the colour to go with
>if you want to have fun is: Olde English White (did I get that right?).
>They said, I believe: "... it's old white now, in fact it's a gas!".
>
>Hey wait a minute!  Perhaps you think that I am wingy because of the way I
>spell colour?
>
>By the end of the week I might be able to open my garage door (it's iced
in
>: (  )
>
>Robert D.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Snowdon <racer45@bellsouth.net>
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Date: March 13, 1999 10:17 PM
>Subject: Re: Fw: Sprite colors\ VIN lookup
>
>
>>Robert Duquette wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey y'all!
>>>
>>> Red 'may' be faster but in this world there is a serenity that can be
>found
>>> when you have your car 'green with you.
>>>
>>> Oh, I confused myself!  Is that when you have your green A car with
you,
>...
>>> or when you have your car A'green with you?  Anyone agree'n with me?
>>>
>>> So, do we agree on red for speed and green for serenity?
>>>
>>> There used to be a rumour that there were some colours of cars that
were
>>> found statistically to be involved in more accidents and therefore
>insurance
>>> rates would be higher.  What was it?  Green was the unconcious signal
>for
>>> 'go' and so people didn't try to avoid you and red means stop and so
>they
>>> did try to avoid you?
>>>
>>> You know, you could paint it a camoflage rust colour!
>>>
>>> Robert Duquette
>>> Ottawa ON Canada
>>> http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette
>>> RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca
>>> '65 RHD BRG Sprite
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Daniel1312@aol.com <Daniel1312@aol.com>
>>> To: tob@taltec.net <tob@taltec.net>; spridgets@autox.team.net
>>> <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>>> Date: March 13, 1999 5:43 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Sprite colors\ VIN lookup
>>>
>>> >In a message dated 13/3/1999  7:40:14PM,  tob@taltec.net writes:
>>> >
>>> ><< I have no clue what
>>> > color to paint it? any suggestions? >>
>>> >
>>> >I think everyone knows that RED cars are faster.  If you want it to be
>fast
>>> >paint it red.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >Daniel1312 Red (tartan, flame, some other, red Sprite)
>>Still cold up there in the Great White North Robert? Better light the
>>sterno can under your brain as it is icing up......I know the survey you
>>are talking about and it should have had a section for cars most likely
>>to get caught speeding. Then the top answer would have been anything
>>driven by me. I was a favorite of the OPP. I like the new paint that
>>Dupont came out with that makes the car look one color when it is coming
>>towards you and another when you drive away. Bet that would throw the
>>coppers off.
>>
>>Mark Snowdon
>>Greensboro NC
>>PS. I always wanted to get ahold of the matchbox color changing paint
>>that changed colors when it got wet and paint a fleet of rental cars
>>with it. Imagine the confusion at the airport when it rained.<G>
>>
>

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