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1. Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: Glen <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 20:54:31 -0700
A short story to share with the list. In 1979 I was 17 years old and interested in cars. A young man across the street bought a 59 bugeye for $500 and set to work restoring it. In the process, he tau
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01318.html (8,482 bytes)

2. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: "Larry & Sandi Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:07:08 -0700
Lucky Dog... street bought a 59 bugeye for everything he knew about car repair as I beautiful red bugeye with a tricked out That bugeye had been sitting in 1275cc with a single SU feeding a kneeling
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01321.html (9,358 bytes)

3. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:34:23 -0500
Hey Glen.... that is about the coolest post to this list I have read in the last year.... good for you.... Keith Turk Austin Healey 100, Bugeye, Box sprites, Bonneville Camaro ( Land Speed Racer) --
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01322.html (9,612 bytes)

4. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:44:29 -0500
There are cars in my life that have what I call Tenure.... the hundred for example... been around too long to sell it ever... so it will be there when I die... Miss Kathy's Bugeye.. and Keith Jr's bo
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01325.html (10,562 bytes)

5. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:31:42 -0700 (PDT)
That's beautiful man! (uncontrollable sobbing) I hope you and your bugeye have many (sob) happy (sob) years (sob) together! Oh - BTW, when you get it finished and start driving it around... Don't eve
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01326.html (9,837 bytes)

6. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: Robert Weeks <robert@woozy.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:01:52 -0400
I was 19 in 1979....... Actually, twenty years passed....... You scared me for a moment, I started wondering how I suddenly got to be 49 years old. Not that there is anything wrong with being 49. I l
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01345.html (8,995 bytes)

7. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: grbyrns@ucdavis.edu (Glen Byrns)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:10:54 -0700 (PDT)
Sorry I miswrote I was 17 in 1979, it was 1969, and I'm now 47. Luckily no regrets as I spent the 10 extra years very well. regards, Glen Byrns
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01348.html (9,287 bytes)

8. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: Ajhsys@aol.com
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:33:46 EDT
<< After a brief period of pathetic pleading from the kneeling position the car is mine. Trailered to Davis, CA and tucked safely in MY garage. Total restoration now under way slated for completion t
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01358.html (8,674 bytes)

9. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: grbyrns@ucdavis.edu (Glen Byrns)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 07:59:14 -0700 (PDT)
Keith, you would enjoy seeing the custom manifold the previous owner made for the turbo. Beautifully welded, it closely couples the intake and exhaust such that the single SU opens back toward the dr
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01359.html (11,276 bytes)

10. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:04:37 -0700
Congratulations. Being in the middle of a Bugeye restoration myself, I know what your in for, the good and the bad. It will all be worth it in the end. You're lucky that you found this list, it is t
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01360.html (9,962 bytes)

11. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:37:28 -0700
I just bought a new Ford F-150. Does this mean I'm going to back over my own Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01363.html (10,642 bytes)

12. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:00:38 -0700 (PDT)
Is it white??? if not, you may be OK, but just to be safe, make sure you keep both cars at least 50 feet apart, and NEVER park the sprite anywhere behind the F150. As an extra precaution, make sure
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01370.html (11,247 bytes)

13. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: Ajhsys@aol.com
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:06:27 EDT
<< As an extra precaution, make sure there is some kind of barrier between the truck and bugeye at all times. >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Like a cat. Allen Hefner '77 Midget '92 Mits
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01374.html (8,053 bytes)

14. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: Bruce Lowry <egnorant@flash.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:11:01 -0400
Must be something to this Ford truck thing. One night while all was quiet....Cosmo(60 Bugeye) escaped from the garage and charged across about 100 feet of rough lawn to attack a Ford truck. Cosmo dro
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01382.html (8,759 bytes)

15. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:02:57 -0700
The Bugeye resides in the garage next to my wife's E-320 Benz and the brand new truck stays outside. Got to have your priorities straight! Mike
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01414.html (11,956 bytes)

16. Re: Got my dream car. (score: 1)
Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:04:29 -0700
Oh, and by the way it is Teal Blue so I may be safe.
/html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01415.html (11,688 bytes)


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