- 1. Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:44:44 -0400
- Obviously the guy that spent $20,000 to restore this Sprite is not a member of the "we tight" club. I don't know if it is possible to spend that much doing a Sprite unless everything is gold plated.
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00288.html (7,257 bytes)
- 2. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 19:56:46 -0400charset="iso-8859-1"
- Oh, it's easy to spend that much to restore one. Try this out for size......$1000 for the basic car, $9000 to completely do the body to concours standards for paint and body work inside and out, $400
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00300.html (7,948 bytes)
- 3. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:23:13 EDT
- << and you've got almost $22,000 in it!! >> And you have done it "cheaply" and "incorrect", Bob. You have not added YOUR "chargeable" hours and Labor Rate to the "resto". Ed
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00301.html (7,347 bytes)
- 4. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:32:33 EDT
- << Obviously the guy that spent $20,000 to restore this Sprite is not a member of the "we tight" club. I don't know if it is possible to spend that much doing a Sprite unless everything is gold plate
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00303.html (7,616 bytes)
- 5. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 19:16:57 -0700
- Ray Charles... I could have sworn I saw him driving a blue, Spridget with "Pieces" license plates the other day in NJ! <VBG>
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00305.html (8,521 bytes)
- 6. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 22:15:06 -0500
- You would think that for 20 grand you could at least get the proper front marker lenses.
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00309.html (8,186 bytes)
- 7. RE: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 22:49:20 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
- "1962 AUSTIN HEALEY SPRITE.... First year for the square bodied Sprite with side curtains" I guess that makes my 1961 Square Body worth more..... I have one made one year *before* the first year they
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00313.html (8,339 bytes)
- 8. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 00:53:10 EDT
- OK..I know I have the cheap CompUSA monitor, but doesn't the hood look like it has ripples in it? And yes I think it was the TR list that just went through the discussion of how much you could spend.
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00314.html (8,837 bytes)
- 9. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 22:22:59 -0700
- Good! I plan on being here in another 25 years (I'm 36). I specialize in estate planning. I would be most happy to draft any list member a will or trust for no cost naming me as the beneficiary of an
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00316.html (8,905 bytes)
- 10. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 03:29:13 EDT
- Over 15 years ownership I must have similiar money in £s. On average I spend about a £1000 a year. I keep all the receipts and a running total. I never buy cheap junk repro parts whether an oil filte
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00321.html (8,509 bytes)
- 11. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 03:29:10 EDT
- I'm 37 years old I might be interested!!!
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00322.html (7,569 bytes)
- 12. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 06:13:23 -0400
- No Contest, Frank would win. Think about it ... NJ, Italian???? Need I say more? Larry Larry Macy 78 Midget Keep your top down and your chin up. Larry B. Macy, Ph.D. macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu Sys
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00324.html (8,242 bytes)
- 13. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 08:30:13 -0400
- Me and another guinea NJ LBC owner already have our "Who gets what" when either one of us goes off the cliff white knuckled or dies is some other mudane way. I get all his junk, I mean Spridgets and
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00326.html (9,000 bytes)
- 14. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 08:11:31 -0500
- I'm 38, I'm interested in storing the midwest collection
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00327.html (7,718 bytes)
- 15. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 13:47:56 -0400charset="iso-8859-1"
- The reason the Model "T"s started declining in value is because they are not dependable enough to take on a cruise, and they're difficult to drive, so the only thing they're good for is parades. The
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00329.html (8,102 bytes)
- 16. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:32:28 EDT
- Given that my wife described the gearbox I have just purchased as 'part of an engine' and drives slowly if at all (not to mention that we have a very new lamp post at the top of our road, mmmmm) I wa
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00330.html (7,747 bytes)
- 17. RE: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:56:07 -0700 charset="iso-8859-1"
- thank goodness there are young'uns around here to help keep the memories Patricia T's off.
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00339.html (7,370 bytes)
- 18. Re: Sprite F/S (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:30:47 -0400
- And the model A guys do just as we do with the LBC's. They modify them for todays use. They machine in full pressure oil systems and alternators and stuff like that there, so they can drive them. Sho
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00442.html (8,299 bytes)
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