The most interesting Midget purchase I ever made was a 75 Midget with a
trunk full of , and I mean stuffed full of... PORN. You could barely close
it.
David Riker
74 Midget
63 Falcon
70 Torino
http://personalweb.sunset.net/~davidr
----- Original Message -----
From "Christian Stanton" <cstanton at pixley.com>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 12:19 PM
Subject: Halloween car stories - No Gun Content
> What happened? I come back from a weekend breaking down a Saab 96 and
find people shooting at each other????
>
> My 2nd BGT I bought shortly after Halloween. A friend approached me at
work and asked if I wanted another one of "those cars" (I was driving a 74.5
rubber bumpered BGT). A "weird" guy had broken down in front of his house
and he had started a conversation with him. In between the guy's curses, my
friend asked him what he wanted for the car. The guy said "give me what it
will cost me to tow it...$35-". I of course said yes and bought the car for
$35 through my friend. I never met the owner. I happily went to the
registry and paid my $1.75 in State Tax.
>
> When I drove up and saw the car, it was a '70 BGT (Mustard Yellow
resprayed Silver) almost no rust, 65K miles. It turned out the clutch arm
bushing had worn and had fallen against the clutch shaft. I wired it up
with stainless wire and drove it home.
>
> On cleaning the car out, I find:
> - The carpeting has been redone in "corn chowder" style puke yellow, 2"
shag carpeting, under and in the shag I find:
> - A hairpeice (brown)
> - Half a set of dentures (top)
> - Several ladies stockings (none matching)
> - Several very old condoms (unused thankfully)
> - A doll's head (Barbie, I think)
> - 2 doileys (the lace thingys, not paper)
> - A Socian Security Card (not the former owner)
> - A racoon tail (like from a Daniel Boone hat)
> - Another set of keys
> - $25 in assorted change
>
> Net cost $10 and the entertainment value more than made up for it.
>
> I drove it until, I did a clutch job on the car in February without a
lift, in an unheated barn with a wind chill (under the door) of -20 degrees
F. I went through at least 6 light bulbs in the drop light because of the
cold.
>
> I drove the car for 2 more years, without investing much of anything.
>
> Every time I think of that car I remember two things:
> - The strange circumstances that I bought it under and wondering what
bizarre things that car had seen.
> - Calling my girlfriend (now my wife) on Valentines eve, greasy and numb
from doing that clutch job.
>
> Apologies if this previous owner is on the list....I don't want to know.
>
> Chris Stanton
> That car lives on in my '78 Midget (the SU carbs).
>
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