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1. Re: bugeye kit car (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:20:41 -0800
I also very much like their 130 Spider (rep Porsche 550) made from a Skoda Estelle. I've been wondering what to do with all those good old Skodas. Clay L. '67 Sprite On the road again! /// unsubscri
/html/spridgets/2002-12/msg00213.html (6,888 bytes)

2. bugeye kit car (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:47:12 -0500
Just stumbled across this web page, seems in the U.K. mini's are so common that they will chop one up to make a sprite! I'd be happy to have either one but not sacrifice one for the other. Interestin
/html/spridgets/2002-11/msg00985.html (7,140 bytes)

3. Re: bugeye kit car (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:20:57 -0500
Very interesting. I have (somewhere) an article from an old Road & Track or Sports Car Illustrated with an article on the "BMC Sprint" A front wheel drive Bugeye. It was a concept BMC car back in lat
/html/spridgets/2002-11/msg00987.html (8,272 bytes)

4. Re: bugeye kit car (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 06:00:17 -0800 (PST)
I see some real possibilities here. I once thought it would be interesting to combine a VWbeetle(rear half) with a VWrabbit(front half) and get all time all wheel drive. Now, a Mini front, attached
/html/spridgets/2002-11/msg00998.html (7,748 bytes)

5. Re: bugeye kit car (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:00:41 -0500
Well there were some guys around here back in the sixties that attached the front end of a Saab two stroke and welded it to the back end of a VW squareback. They thought they would have the best ATV
/html/spridgets/2002-11/msg00999.html (8,660 bytes)

6. Re: bugeye kit car (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:49:24 -0000
There were some minis made and raced ( no not production ones! ) that had transverse mounted mini engines front and back, giving all wheel drive and amazing grip! I remember seeing one racing at the
/html/spridgets/2002-11/msg01019.html (9,515 bytes)

7. Re: bugeye kit car (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:22:25 EST
There might have also been some Renault LeCar-based racers with engines front and rear. If there's anything more not to work right than a two-engined British car, it'd have to be a two-engined French
/html/spridgets/2002-11/msg01020.html (7,382 bytes)

8. Re: bugeye kit car (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:28:38 -0500
This was Britians answer to our Army Jeep. Twin engine Mini. all wheel drive. (So I heard, I never verified it) -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ 2 Sprites, 2 Midgets http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
/html/spridgets/2002-11/msg01029.html (8,229 bytes)

9. Re: bugeye kit car (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:31:32 -0000
I was referring to standard mini saloons, converted this way for race track in the '60s. There was also a modified version of the Mini Moke - which was the miniature Army- Jeep type vehicle Frank is
/html/spridgets/2002-11/msg01034.html (9,335 bytes)


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