Michael Chaffee has summarised the virtues of the spridgets quite
well, so I'll just say I agree with every thing he said and only add a
couple of ancilliary notes.
A 'B' will never handle as well as a spridget. If you like punting the
car around, go with the spridget.
With a tall diff (you can get 3.7 diffs you know), a spridget makes a
quite tolerable freeway cruiser, but a 'B' would be more suitable if
only for its ease of relaxed driving (i.e. slower steering reponse!!
:-)
Tall folk can fit a lot easier in early spridgets (1/4 elliptic cars
-- the ones with the side curtains instead of wind up windows). It
helps to have a 12" or 13" steering wheel!
There is no more affordable fun car than a spridget with a warm motor
and mildly improved suspension. Spridgets respond fantasticly to
simple and inexpensive improvements.
I love whipping the 'B's in MG racing here! Only the hot V8s can beat
a good spridget. No B would come close to a good spridget in
autox-style events. (See me whipping a hot 'B' at
http://mega.cgl.rmit.edu.au/~mg/cars/images/index.html)
BTW, I am biased if you hadn't gathered.
Mike
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Mike Gigante
3D interactive graphics, Virtual Reality, british sports cars, and wine
http://mega.cgl.rmit.edu.au/~mg/ mg@mega.cgl.rmit.edu.au
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