| I have an ebay search on "midgets" that snares everything -- the 
pornographic "I love midgets" t-shirts, midget racers, the works. I go 
through it dutifully every day. Last night, an auction for a '79 popped 
up. I wouldn't have given it a second thought except that it's in my 
town. Body looked great, the bumpers notwithstanding, but the engine is 
torn down -- bottom in car, head in trunk. Still, it would just be a 
local tow.
I bid on it and went to bed a while later. I tossed and turned for 
hours. Where would I put it? Why would I buy a '79, which would have to 
be smogged every year, and couldn't be changed to a Series A?
Fortunately, I woke up to find that I had been outbid.
Back to sanity. Whew.
Mark
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