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Re: It's a sickness!

To: JamesA@hi-torque.com, spritenut@Exit109.com
Subject: Re: It's a sickness!
From: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:52:14 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Reply-to: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
'When my girlfriend turned 17'...'now my wife of 2 years'... 'Both my kids 
started out driving LBCs'

Whoa!... Frank, I'm totally confused here. How old are you anyway??? 
So your wife is now about 19, and you already have two kids driving. There must 
be some kind of 'time-warp' in that part of the country ;-)

 - Bryan Vandiver (59-bugeye)
 
>the a few of his buddies are working on'
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>To: Jim Algar <JamesA@hi-torque.com>
>CC: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: It's a sickness!
>
>It is indeed a sickness.
>I bought my first Sprite (a 67) off my dad in 1972, he bought it in
>1969.
>Parts of it are still in use on PIECES, my Wife's Spridget and the
>chassis ID is from that 67 Sprite.
>It has been on the road except for an occasional repaint since I owned
>it.
>I have gone thru 42 Spridgets since that first one and I was never
>without one on the road.
>Today I have only 2 on the road, a racer in the driveway that  a couple of 
MKIII parts cars
>and I am going to look at a 69 Sprite this weekend.
>
>When my girlfriend turned 17, I gave her a Sprite for her birthday, she
>is now my wife of 2 years and still drives one. When we had kids, we
>would take both Sprites, each with one kid for our journey.
>
>, my son had a 63 Mini woody wagon
>that was a father/son restoration, he sold out to a VW but still takes
>one of our Sprites many Saturday nights. Some day he will finish the
>Racer for his own.
>My daughter just started driving this summer and has an Austin A40, it
>is her only means of transportation and she loves her car as long as
>nothing is broken on it like the axle she snapped a few weeks ago.
>(Thanks again Paul)
>
>In the mid 70s I was selling foriegn car parts, I know Beck Arnley and
>Vera, and let's not forget Kingsborne.
>
>So I have had a Sprite since 1972, my dad had a TR3 before he bought
>that Sprite in 69, Once I had his Sprite, he bought an Austin America.
>Today he drives a Minivan but he still hunts for Spridget stuff for me
>on ebay and flea markets.
>
>-- 
> Frank
>"Drive it Like You Stole it"
> http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/


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