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RE: RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca

To: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
Subject: RE: RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca
From: lmyer@sprynet.com
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:34 -0400
Cc: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Reply-to: lmyer@sprynet.com
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Phil,

Unless you live in Michigan you cannot claim the road salt capital title. :-)

Les Myer

----Original Message-----
   >From:       Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
   >To:         "'Chris Kotting'" 
<ckotting@iwaynet.net>;"spridgets@autox.team.net"<spridgets@autox.team.net>
   >Subject:            RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca
   >Reply-To:           Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
   >Date:       Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:22 PM
   >
   >True, My Midget still has a "Burbank Sportscar Center" badge on it. 
   >
   >Phil Vanner
   >Neither East nor West, but the Road Salt Capital of the World.
   >
   >-----Original Message-----
   >From:       Chris Kotting [SMTP:ckotting@iwaynet.net]
   >Sent:       Tuesday, April 07, 1998 6:27 AM
   >To: spridgets@autox.team.net
   >Subject:    RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca
   >
   >I don't know that they necessarily crossed either pond.  I'd wager that 
   >just as many ended up going north and east, where "rust free" is such a 
   >rarity!
   >
   >Chris Kotting
   >ckotting@iwaynet.net
   >
   >On Tuesday, April 07, 1998 5:04 AM, bhndrson@west.net 
   >[SMTP:bhndrson@west.net] wrote:
   >>
   >> Larry Miller wrote:
   >>
   >> >Amen to that. I have also noticed that most of the activity is in the
   >> >Mid-East to East. Very rare to see an english car for sale around here
   >> >(California Central Coast). I have not seen one being parted out for at
   >> >least 10 years. More Rolls than Spridgets in this part of CA and it used 
   >to
   >> >be a sports car Mecca.
   >>
   >>
   >> I totally agree that southern California used to have more LBCs than you 
   >can
   >> shake a stick at, but they have become rather rare, perhaps exceedingly 
   >so.
   >> I would venture a guess that many of the LBCs originally found in the
   >> southwestern United States have been purchased and shipped out of the
   >> country back to Europe and Japan.  Rust is a major factor in purchasing 
   >one
   >> of these little beasties and southern California and Arizona have always
   >> been places where people look for a car if they are interested in a good
   >> example.
   >>
   >> Bruce Henderson
   >> 1969 Sprite
   >


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