Call me a romantic, but I wouldn't use another tub because then it wouldn't be "your" car. There's something special about re-acquiring a car you used to own. Grassroots Motorsports had an article re
There's something REALLY special about a car with no rust. _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html http://www.team.net/archive http://autox.t
Maybe, but they're a dime-a-dozen in California. Here in NH, even my fully-galvanized-body Audi has some rust. Even the pine trees along the highway are rust-colored; my guess is they're dying from t
My garage is full of junk, because I can't bring myself to be the one who destroyed one of our precious little cars. I have a titled bondo bucket ( always forget if it is a '64 or '66 ), a rust free
Send me a dozen, would 'ya? ;) RD --Original Message Follows-- Maybe, but they're a dime-a-dozen in California. -- Kent McLean '56 100 BN2 _______________________________________________ Support Team
Will you take a check for $0.10? -- Kent McLean '59 100 BN2 _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html http://www.team.net/archive http://autox.t
I am still figuring out which messages come directly to me, and which come to me in digest form only. I suppose that I am trying to be realistic about this car, and it is important to me that it rema
tinydog sez: For some it's a hard concept to grasp, but the easiest and cheapest way to enter Spridget ownership is with a rust-free car from the West Coast. Shipping is cheap in comparison to solvin
Logically, you are probably correct. However, logically, who would own a Spridget? Emotional involvement is necessary to keep things going when logic says it is better to throw the whole heap away a
Thank you David. The workings of the list are much clearer. I agree with the (il)logical aspect of Midgets. I have owned many practical cars, Miatas and now a WRX. Plus, I already own the Midget, and
To ...dog and all the rest of the 'wannaCaliforniaSpridget-eers' When I bought my early '67 Mk IV Sprite, it looked like cowbirds had been nesting in it for a long time (it was the DPO's daily driver
What makes all of you think that I'm sitting in the middle of a bunch of cheap, rust-free Sprites? It took me nearly two years to find any Sprite out here, and it needed floors, both 1/4 panels, A pi
Yes, and no. I saved the article -- but it was from Classic Motorsports, GRM's sister publication. It was the September 2008 issue. <http://classicmotorsports.net/issues/> The author was Carl Heidema
And the rust-free quarter panels came from a parts car in the Midwest! _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html http://www.team.net/archive htt
They're all up here. Glen _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html http://www.team.net/archive http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spridgets
You guys, like most men, are forgetting that this car has sentimental value. If I could find my first MG, other than a few nuts and bolts that are probably still somewhere on the hill I splattered he
Most surprising of all in this discussion of rotted floorpans is that no YET has mentioned stealing a STOP sign for the floor replacement piece. While I personally have ZERO skills in body or mechan
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As are ours, and the No Parking at the Beach sign still has not rusted and it's still on my A40 ;) -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net htt
Here's one for $1000 if the listing is still good: http://redding.craigslist.org/cto/816291718.html Dave R. _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate