- 1. Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:17:36 -0500
- Hi all, My name is Charley Robinson an' I live in Kerrville, TX. I've been hanging out on the MG List for the last couple of years since I have a '69 B daily driver. Anyhoo, I ran into what looked li
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00514.html (8,250 bytes)
- 2. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:35:09 -0000charset="iso-8859-1"
- yugo? hmmm must be a 2 door! because the 4 door was the wego...right? a yugo and lbc's and a nip hauler, you're gonna fit right in here welcome to the congenial side of reality. yugo? hmmmmmm, group
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00516.html (9,394 bytes)
- 3. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 06:19:11 -0500
- Hey Charlie, how have you and Peggy been. I met you at Spridgetstock. My family and I had the red 68 Sprite. A Spridget is a '62-'69 model as both were made those years. Congratulations on your new p
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00520.html (7,885 bytes)
- 4. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:50:08 EDT
- Oh oh--I am not sure we have tread these waters before. To me a Spridget is a Sprite OR a Midget of any year. For all the square bodies, the parts are relatively interchangeable, with small differenc
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00521.html (8,235 bytes)
- 5. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:41:59 -0500
- Hi Brad, We've been OK, thanks. Just got back from a 4400 mile trip out west in our MGB. I remember you and your car. Don't know how though, I was pretty busy gopherin' for Elizabeth Jones at the tim
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00523.html (8,228 bytes)
- 6. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:45:37 -0500
- Didn't know I'd stick my foot in it. I'll call it a Midget from now on ;^) That's what te logos say. Thanks to all who replied. Cheers, CR DLancer7676@cs.com wrote:
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00524.html (9,180 bytes)
- 7. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:02:08 -0400
- As with the B folks. The first thing you'll want to do is change the carb. Thay have a nasty habit of flooding the pistons with gas and fouling the oil with no warning at all. My recommendation woul
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00526.html (9,555 bytes)
- 8. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:15:00 EDT
- << I'll need to buy some manuals first thing as I don't know jack about midgets and ZS carbs. Any recommendations? >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - You definitely need the Bentley service manual. It has
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00528.html (8,485 bytes)
- 9. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:49:55 EDT
- Change the carbs to SUs. << I'll need to buy some manuals first thing as I don't know jack about midgets and ZS carbs. Any recommendations? >>
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00536.html (7,753 bytes)
- 10. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:49:57 EDT
- This would be a DCOE sidedraught. - IMHO Daniel1312 << on either a Weber >>
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00537.html (7,860 bytes)
- 11. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:21:35 -0500
- Maybe it was the frantic manner in which I was replacing my oil cooling line on Saturday morning that sticks in the memory <G>
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00541.html (8,587 bytes)
- 12. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:39:09 -0400
- Hey Charley, Welcome to the brighter side of MG ownership. Always nice to welcome a Midget owner that has moved away from the darkside LOL. BTW Chuck the Yugo was a Fiat Bravo in it's earlier incarna
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00559.html (10,621 bytes)
- 13. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 03:04:56 -0000charset="iso-8859-1"
- ok-ok i know the yugo was a "fix it again tony" based vehicle , but we always (around shops ) the commie rabbit. economical and practical but not very stylish! nothing from that side of the iorn curt
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00564.html (11,945 bytes)
- 14. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:30:01 -0500
- Hi Larry, Not many peple know about the Yugo's Fiat lineage. The Yugo was built in Yugoslavia under licence, using tooling bought from Fiat. Regrettably, the Yugo's water pump sprang a leak when we f
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00606.html (8,550 bytes)
- 15. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:49:51 EDT
- << Carb's running way too rich. >> You still had the Stromberg carb on your engine didn't you, Charley? Or am I thinking of someone else? One of the best investments on the 1500 engines is to scrub t
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00615.html (8,402 bytes)
- 16. Re: Just bought a Midget! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:08:56 EDT
- Fiat and I think Renault all sell their old car designs and tooling to Soviet Asia. Thus Lada's are also old Fiat designs. I think some of the Daewoo designs are ex general motors. Daniel1312 << Not
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00620.html (7,632 bytes)
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