- 1. Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:21:12 -0400
- This last email brings up something I never understood. Where did this term "square-body" ever come from? Some Spridget owner who also drove a Step-Van? A math teacher hoping to increase the number o
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01405.html (7,826 bytes)
- 2. Re: Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:51:22 -0500
- OK, how about STL (sans trunk lid) or SBL (sans boot lid) and ATL or ABL
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01409.html (7,705 bytes)
- 3. Re: Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:01:56 -0400
- And how about, for the uninitiated, what is a squarebody? <dnw> 1972 Midget 1998 Safari 1999 9-3 1964 (Me) -- Original Message --
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01410.html (7,663 bytes)
- 4. Re: Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:34:50 -0400
- Precisely my point. jf
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01413.html (7,663 bytes)
- 5. Re: Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:43:34 EDT
- To my knowledge, the "squarebodied" cars are all Midgets and all non-Bugeye Sprites. I think maybe the term came from their side profiles, which are decidedly more square than the Bugeye. I've had an
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01414.html (7,632 bytes)
- 6. Re: Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:02:07 EDT
- So, you are coming to live in England? Daniel1312 - UK << For the record, I never have and never will own a "square-body" Spridget.
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01419.html (7,480 bytes)
- 7. Re: Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:26:55 -0500
- What about a "Box-Sprite"?!?!? I think that the Innocenti's look rather boxy <G>
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01423.html (7,943 bytes)
- 8. Re: Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:24:19 -0400
- Yeah, What about a "Box Sprite"? What is a "Box Sprite"? Is that like Box Lunch? Or maybe Jack In The Box? Or is that a Sprite being shipping in a container on a boat? Or, let's see, a pugilisticly i
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01426.html (8,497 bytes)
- 9. re: Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 01 17:17:43 EDT
- per Jay... How 'bout a round-arch-square-body Spridget? Ed in NC ;-) (I have round-bodied cats. :-) )
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01444.html (7,338 bytes)
- 10. Re: Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:36:50 +1000
- Jay must have been reading Zen and the art of sports cars. That or he has forgotten his medication! :-) Mike
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01451.html (8,590 bytes)
- 11. Re: Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:52:13 -0500
- The $250 '69 Sprite had cardboard shoved into the A pillar area to fill in most of the opening and was then covered in bondo. Does this count?? Don't get mad at me, you started this thread...........
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01454.html (8,724 bytes)
- 12. Re: Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:17:45 -0700
- I thought we were just being kind to "you guys". OK, so now we have bugeyes and "parts cars". Is that better Jay? Crash
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01464.html (7,709 bytes)
- 13. RE: Let's Square This Up (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:49:56 -0700 m>
- Hahah. What's next the Healey crowd vs. the MG crew? One guy at a car show cracked me up when he said "Hey did you know MG Midget parts fit your car? They make great parts cars to keep the Austin Hea
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01471.html (8,327 bytes)
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