- 1. Re: [Spridgets] A Puzzle (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Bruce Evans" <b-evans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:17:36 -0700
- Bill McLeod wrote: "It has certainly been a while, but that sure sounds like the tag the state of California used to fasten beside the VIN number to authorize a year of first sale." Hmm. Never heard
- /html/spridgets/2007-08/msg00510.html (7,306 bytes)
- 2. Re: [Spridgets] A Puzzle (score: 1)
- Author: "WJHS1960" <WJHS1960@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:27:32 -0500
- <<Bill McLeod wrote: "It has certainly been a while, but that sure sounds like the tag the state of California used to fasten beside the VIN number to authorize a year of first sale." Hmm. Never hear
- /html/spridgets/2007-08/msg00511.html (7,112 bytes)
- 3. Re: [Spridgets] A Puzzle (score: 1)
- Author: "pdxpete" <pdx.pete@verizon.net>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:59:33 -0700
- My Morris Minor had a similar tag on it. In this case it was labeled BMC 1961. I'm fairly certain that the title for the car claims it is a '61, whilst the VIN states it is if 1959 vintage. Dunno if
- /html/spridgets/2007-08/msg00513.html (7,634 bytes)
- 4. Re: [Spridgets] A Puzzle (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Elliott" <pelliott@innercite.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:46:55 -0700
- I've got one too. It's an original California car. Patrick Elliott www.SyilAmerica.com --Original Message-- From: spridgets-bounces+pelliott=innercite.com@autox.team.net [mailto:spridgets-bounces+pel
- /html/spridgets/2007-08/msg00514.html (8,169 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Spridgets] A Puzzle (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Bruce Evans" <b-evans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:55:12 -0700
- WJHS1960 wrote: "True. Been discussed AND proved beyond any reasonable doubt on the Big Healey List, guys!! Ad nauseam." And what I am saying is that as a cop contemporary to the issue, there was not
- /html/spridgets/2007-08/msg00515.html (8,443 bytes)
- 6. Re: [Spridgets] A Puzzle (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Bruce Evans" <b-evans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:23:50 -0700
- Gerard wrote: "Yep, I have had a couple 60's vintage BMC's with that tag... the '64 MG 1100 I have now has a BMC64 and had an MKI Midget with that plastic tag too." I think people are losing sight of
- /html/spridgets/2007-08/msg00516.html (8,057 bytes)
- 7. Re: [Spridgets] A Puzzle (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Bruce Evans" <b-evans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:12:54 -0700
- I think that the one thing we can all agree on is that Donald Healey is rolling over in his grave with laughter at all of the consternation he has caused to Bugeye/Frogeye/BMC owners! Right now, we
- /html/spridgets/2007-08/msg00517.html (8,239 bytes)
- 8. Re: [Spridgets] A Puzzle (score: 1)
- Author: Mike/Donna Carpenter <mail4carpenters@peoplepc.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:48:08 -0400 (EDT)
- I have a '61 MG Midget out of Oxnard, California that had the same tag held on by one of the VIN plate screws. It is an extremely original Midget. Mike C --Original Message-- ________________________
- /html/spridgets/2007-08/msg00520.html (10,203 bytes)
- 9. Re: [Spridgets] A Puzzle (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Bruce Evans" <b-evans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:57:39 -0700
- Bill McLeod wrote: "That's about as likely as someone proving that God exists! I don't believe either of us declared that the tag was required by California law." Oops! I beg to differ, Bill, but Lar
- /html/spridgets/2007-08/msg00543.html (8,621 bytes)
- 10. Re: [Spridgets] A Puzzle (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Bruce Evans" <b-evans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:25:52 -0700
- David Doiron wrote: "These tags were applied on MOST of the cars that were processed by "British Motor Cars", the distibutor for the US west coast based in San Francisco." Well, that certainly makes
- /html/spridgets/2007-08/msg00545.html (8,450 bytes)
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