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To: "'spridgets@autox.team.net'" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: hubcaps
From: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:07:19 -0400
Reply-to: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
They are called Ace, but I think they were optional on Midgets, not Sprites.
Horler mentions something about them in his book, I think the car on the
back cover has them. 

Us "real" Sprite owners would never put these wimpy things on our cars!

Shields up!

Daniel58612

> -----Original Message-----
> From: type79@ix.netcom.com [SMTP:type79@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 1:22 PM
> To:   Curtis Carlson; spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject:      Re: hubcaps
> 
> Curtis,
> Yes I have. I know an original owner with a set on their car. I believe
> they
> were called something like Ace wheel covers.
> Jay Fishbein, CT
> AN-5
> HAN-6
> Innocenti-S
> 
> 
> Curtis Carlson wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone ever seen the alternative kind of hubcap for the Sprites?  I
> have
> > an original owners manual for a MKII and it shows the small chrome caps
> with
> > the "AH" in the center,  but it also shows a full wheel plate with a
> center
> > octagonal portion.  I believe the outer rim of the plate was fluted in
> some
> > manner.
> >
> > Has anyone ever seen such a beast?
> >
> > Curt
> >
> > Curtis Carlson
> > '66 Austin Healey Sprite MkIII ("Gerty") HAN8L-63423
> > '72 MG Midget MkIII ("unnamed") GAN9L-98362
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