David -
You should check out Fairthorpe cars (Electrons and other). Could have
been frogs, but missed by a mile.
Clay L.
'67 Sprite
At 11:24 PM 11/24/2002 -0600, David Lieb wrote:
> > but a turner is a spridget with a fiberglass shell.
> >
> > chuck.
>
>Hey Chuckster,
>It looks as if I was right! I did a little research and discovered that I
>would NOT have recognized a Turner if it had run over me. My research
>doesn't exactly agree with you, however, since it indicates that the Turner
>was a chassis-based car with a completely different rear suspension and came
>before the Bugeye. You made it sound like an Inocenti-type proposition, but
>that appears not to be the case. It did use many of the same components that
>wound up in the Sprite, but if there was emulation, it was on the part of
>the Bugeye. Interesting, and the picture of the 1964 model I saw was very
>attractive indeed.
>David Lieb
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