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1. It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Jim Algar <JamesA@hi-torque.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 09:48:06 -0700
I've been enjoying the list since joining, especially the stories of when and under what circumstances cars were bought/acquired. Brought up the thought of a thread (this could be fun) on the subject
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00450.html (10,065 bytes)

2. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: "Lisa \"Ann\" Perry" <Lisa.Perry4@gte.net>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:23:17 -0700
Wow congratulations Jim on all the years you have had with your spridget! Mine is a 72 midget that has owned me since the summer of 77! I traded my Dad a corvair for the LBC, best trade I ever made.
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00458.html (9,420 bytes)

3. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:27:12 -0600
My story. Toby, my '59 was found in a junk yard in 1974. Dad and I put it back together, had it painted and I drove it for most of high school. It sat when I was in college and grad school. When I f
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00460.html (9,379 bytes)

4. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Brad Fornal <toyman@htcomp.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 12:47:15 -0500
I loved your story, thank you for sharing it and hope to hear from you more often, the list is no fun if you don't put in some advice and/or a wise @$$ comment now and then Brad
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00463.html (11,407 bytes)

5. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Mark Hineline <hineline@helix.ucsd.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:09:45 -0700 (PDT)
Great! Let's hear more of these stories. If there is one thing I hated to hear, it was some clown say "I used to have one of these." Translation: "I used to be a fool, but now I'm a daytrader." Or so
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00469.html (8,494 bytes)

6. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:17:27 -0400
Well , was looking at a few things yesterday and found that I got the current 78 Midget on Oct 10, 1983. So - for me the b-day is Sunday. !6yrs. Noe that isn't close to the 30 yrs but it is still a w
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00471.html (10,010 bytes)

7. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: "Larry Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:29:46 -0700
I've owned one of my Bugeye's since 65/66 (can't remember that far back). I know some listers have owned their Bugeye since new (Bob/Ann). Story at: http://ado13.com/oldiiis/old_bugiiis_frame.htm Lar
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00472.html (9,110 bytes)

8. RE: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Michael Graziano <mgrazian@ltcm.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:43:16 -0400
from exch01.ltcm.com by ltcm.com (8.7.1/1.32(sec)-LK3) id OAA12453; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:43:17 -0400 Reply-to: Michael Graziano <mgrazian@ltcm.com> Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net What happened
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00474.html (10,934 bytes)

9. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Gerard Chateauvieux <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:36:14 -0700
I certainly won't qualify as the longest, but I'll be up near the top of the list. I bought my first Bugeye in Detroit in March 1968 and sold it (29 years later) in San Francisco in February 1997 in
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00475.html (14,567 bytes)

10. RE: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:56:15 -0400
A student of mine in a 69 Oldsmobubble stoped short on rain slick concrete at a green light and turned the wings and headlights into rubble. The insurance company totaled it. I put in a bid to get it
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00478.html (11,418 bytes)

11. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Lancer7676@aol.com
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:05:20 EDT
I admire, really admire, you guys who had the foresight to hang on to your cars. Congratulations!! I bought a brand new 1966 Austin Healey 3000 BJ8 right off the transport in 1965==loved the car--dro
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00488.html (9,265 bytes)

12. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 18:21:50 -0400
It is indeed a sickness. I bought my first Sprite (a 67) off my dad in 1972, he bought it in 1969. Parts of it are still in use on PIECES, my Wife's Spridget and the chassis ID is from that 67 Sprite
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00499.html (10,402 bytes)

13. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Rick <rickfisk@concentric.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 18:28:11 -0400
I bought my '59 Sprite in January of 1968 for $500 at a used car lot called "Sir Lances Lot" - LOL. The lot (gone for many years now) was located on Commonwealth Avenue in Fullerton, CA. I bought a s
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00502.html (12,630 bytes)

14. RE: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: "Elliott, Patrick" <patrick.elliott@attws.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:05:15 -0700
Two years!!! This must be a typo . Or should Franks nick name be Dirty Old "When my girlfriend turned 17, I gave her a Sprite for her birthday, she is now my wife of 2 years and still drives one. Whe
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00505.html (9,325 bytes)

15. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:52:14 -0700 (PDT)
'When my girlfriend turned 17'...'now my wife of 2 years'... 'Both my kids started out driving LBCs' Whoa!... Frank, I'm totally confused here. How old are you anyway??? So your wife is now about 19,
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00506.html (11,505 bytes)

16. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 19:10:25 -0400
Ok Ok, sorry, 22 years. -- Frank "Drive it Like You Stole it" http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00507.html (9,523 bytes)

17. RE: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: "Hanna, Mark" <mhanna@ball.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:11:31 -0600
Mark Hanna AN5 P.S. The parts car is long gone.
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00508.html (9,195 bytes)

18. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:18:28 -0700 (PDT)
And I was just starting to fantasize about having a 19 year old wife. Well it was good while it lasted ;-) BTW - I just turned 40 today, so that 19 year old wife thing was really sounding pretty goo
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00509.html (9,989 bytes)

19. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 19:34:06 -0400
And I am looking 45 in the eye. I keep telling my wife it's time to trade her in for 2) 21 year olds. She says 2) 21 year olds would kill me. What a way to go, that would beat going over the edge, wh
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00510.html (9,990 bytes)

20. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 20:10:41 EDT
<< I keep telling my wife it's time to trade her in for 2) 21 year olds. She says 2) 21 year olds would kill me. >> Frank, Has your wife been talking to my wife? <G> Bob
/html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00517.html (8,728 bytes)


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