Mine never went into storage, but I did drive the Midget out yesterday to
participate in a St. Patty's Day parade. Always good fun. I REALLY need to
get that engine rebuilt. It is VERY tired.
-T
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Chris Manuel <cmanuel at wi.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi-
>
> Hope you all had a chance to enjoy this sudden and warm spring. It seems I
> put the Sprite away decently last fall. I pushed it out of its winter
> hideaway, turned the battery on and it fired right up.
>
> Peeled the top off and went around the block. That ended up to be a 20
> mile
> jaunt to nowhere special through the Kettle Moraine area. Other than a
> slightly leaky float bowl, I swear the thing runs better than when I parked
> it in November.
>
> I'm still planning on rebuilding the carbs, dropping a better alternator
> in,
> and having a distributor rebuilt, but damn that was fun.
>
> Hope your cars awake this spring with the same attitude!
>
> Chris
>
> 66 MKIII Sprite 1275
> Brookfield, WI
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