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41. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:20:05 -0400
Oh, yeah; one more thing about bugeyes. Everyone knows that they were really " girls' " cars!!! (kind of like a VW Cabriolet is today) Give me a "manly Midget" any day! Bob
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00816.html (10,410 bytes)

42. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: Lancer7676@aol.com
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:33:56 EDT
<< What do you mean "even" your wife? Kate >> Oh oh Frank! Doghouse time!! Keyboard engaged, brain not in gear. <G> --David
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00821.html (9,194 bytes)

43. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: RBHouston@aol.com
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:38:43 EDT
You mean the Morgan with the Buick V-8? Robert Houston
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00822.html (9,082 bytes)

44. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: RBHouston@aol.com
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:55:44 EDT
As I understand it from an old Mustang driver...if you goosed it too much on take off you could torque it right over sideways.......... Robert Houston (Just down the street from an air Museum where t
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00824.html (9,423 bytes)

45. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:00:46 -0700
Yeah that Damn Frank always getting us Gear heads in trouble with the Miss Kathy can change a tire with the best of them....( just don't mention what happens when her brain dead husband puts the hub
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00825.html (10,333 bytes)

46. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 23:12:21 -0400
I should have said my wife ALSO beat all the RB Midgets with her stock Sprite. -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ Bugeye Sprite 67 Sprite 59 A40 http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00827.html (9,993 bytes)

47. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:00:34 EDT
Real men don't need roll up windows or those sissy fold up tops.
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00829.html (9,137 bytes)

48. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: Metallian6@aol.com
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:57:45 EDT
<< Real men don't need roll up windows or those sissy fold up tops. >> Roll up windows??????? Fold up tops??????? Wow I've heard about those but they sounded to complicated. I'm happy with my side cu
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00833.html (9,363 bytes)

49. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: Paul A Asgeirsson <pasgeirsson@juno.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 02:36:04 EDT
On Thu, 13 May 1999 12:49:35 -0400 "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net> designing I think they were designed by the same team that put the early 60's Chrysler Imperial tail lights on stalks! Paul PAsge
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00838.html (10,501 bytes)

50. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 07:00:43 GMT
The Triumph Herald all but killed triumph's Australian dealers with incessant warranty work. Our circa 1960 roads pretty much shook them to pieces And what finally killed BL here was the famed Leylan
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00841.html (10,632 bytes)

51. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 07:04:19 GMT
Then lets not forget how the ford mustang was conceived. The car for the young upwardly mobile american woman. Andy
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00842.html (11,198 bytes)

52. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 07:16:46 GMT
And with wind-up windows you lose your door pockets which ,to quote the original sales brochure," provide storage for all your motoring impedimentia" Andy
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00843.html (10,254 bytes)

53. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott" <toobmany@bigpond.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 18:09:06 +1000
BTW the Tri** 6 cylinder engines are suspect in the crank as well. In the unlikely event I were to buy another TR6 I'd first check the fore and aft play at the crank pulley. Too much foreplay of cour
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00844.html (11,920 bytes)

54. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: Lancer7676@aol.com
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 06:25:32 EDT
<< Too much foreplay of course means the engine's **ed >> Hmmm--never been accused of too much foreplay. Maybe that's why my engine's still running. ??? --David
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00845.html (8,946 bytes)

55. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: Chris Kotting <ckotting@iwaynet.net>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:02:40 -0400
Well, you can blame those headlights on cost-cutters. The original design called for pop-up headlights, but that would be too expensive...
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00848.html (11,088 bytes)

56. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:02:41 -0400
I agree! All my "projects" are '63s that have side curtains and build-it-yourself tops. (except for a '68 Sprite, which I'm trying to sell because of the "girly" roll-up windows and easy-to-fold top.
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00854.html (9,544 bytes)

57. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:34:13 -0400
"Foreplay"? -- How did we get on the subject of "golf"? Bob --Original Message-- From: Lancer7676@aol.com <Lancer7676@aol.com> To: toobmany@bigpond.com <toobmany@bigpond.com>; spridgets@autox.team.ne
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00862.html (9,335 bytes)

58. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:41:11 EDT
<< The A series cars could get close... >> I think you have to put this comment in perspective. The A series engined cars were delibrately NOT fitted with the Cooper S head because they were embarras
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00869.html (8,780 bytes)

59. Re: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:41:01 EDT
<< Now if that Ford engine came out of a Jag XK 8 it might be pretty nice. This engine was a REAL jaguar engine, now the new S type I'm not sure. Daniel1312
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00870.html (8,559 bytes)

60. RE: Morris vs British Leyland (score: 1)
Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:26:26 -0500
"Projects?" My daily driver has sidescreens and a stowaway top. They've been getting a lot of use lately too, as we have had only seven rainless days in the last five weeks I was riding in an '80 MGB
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00888.html (9,538 bytes)


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