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What's in a name?

To: "spridgets@autox.team.net" <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: What's in a name?
From: Chris Kotting <ckotting@iwaynet.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 08:15:25 -0400
Reply-to: Chris Kotting <ckotting@iwaynet.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Easy, there.  Let's not start a "flame war" over this.  I understand the 
frustration rubber-bumper-owners feel with the reaction some people have to 
the rubber bumper cars (I own and love one myself), but I was under the 
impression that the discussion was a matter of "What IS a 'Spridget', 
anyhow?".  That seems to me a fair question for a list with that word as a 
title.

To weigh in on the question myself, having driven and enjoyed both 
"variations on the theme", I can say that I could see how some people would 
consider a 1500 Midget not quite a "Spridget", the "feel" is very 
different.  However, it's less different than a race-prepped Frogeye and a 
street Frogeye.  What about those who have swapped Toyota or Datsun 
engines/transmissions into their "Spridgets", are those cars no longer 
"Spridgets"?

Let's just accept that people have preferences, and be friendly enough to 
take (and give) a little ribbing about what our preferences are.  Like our 
cars, we have more in common than we do differences

Chris Kotting
ckotting@iwaynet.net
'77 Midget (leastways, that's what the Title says) ;^)

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