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Re: Hi All

To: b-evans@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: Hi All
From: Gregory Kirk <gkirk@empirenet.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:00:27 -0700
Cc: Les Myer <lmyer@qtm.net>, spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
References: <1.5.4.32.19971018081941.00669880@pop.qtm.net> <3449122B.2AEA@ix.netcom.com>
Reply-to: Gregory Kirk <gkirk@empirenet.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Well... I have to admid being a little bit jealous... that FrogEye is
one unique looking car...
but then my dad owned an MG TC.. so having a Midget is probably in my
genes or something.

Greg


b-evans@ix.netcom.com wrote:

> Heheheheh,...   Ah, gee, Les, gimme at least ONE chance in this
> lifetime
> to lord it over someone.  You see, for the last 37 years I have been
> put
> down, dismissed, laughed at, and ridiculed.  All because I owned a
> "little" Healey. In sports car circles, I was the 90-pound weakling
> that
> the big boys kicked sand at on the beach.  I was the last one they
> picked when the guys were choosing up sides for football.  I was the
> one
> they snickered at when we stripped down for our Navy physicals.  Now,
> for the first time, I could really be someone because I own FROGEYES!
> I
> mean, gosh, I could really look down on someone else for a change!
> Oh,
> what an exhilarating feeling!  My heart was pounding! I was all
> aflutter. Then you had to go and point out that I had feet of clay!
>
> All seriousness aside, Les, it is a wonderful feeling to be taken
> seriously for once!
>
> Bob
>
> Les Myer wrote:
> >
> > >..........Everything after H-AN5-50116 were just nice, but failed
> imitations.
> > >
> > >Bob Evans
> > >Anaheim, California
> > >Frogeyes  AN 5L/762  AN 5L/6893
> >
> > ...hmmm.....sounds similar to the Big Healey owner's attitude that
> Sprites
> > (including Bugeyes) are not bonafide Healeys.  As the proud owner of
> a
> > H-AN9, I am very offended by this statement.  I happen to like
> 1275s, disk
> > brakes, door locks, wind up windows, folding top, front sway bar,
> and a
> > locking trunk - that's my preference.  By adding disk brakes, front
> sway
> > bar, and 1275 to a Bugeye - does the Bugeye owner have MKIV envy
> (and wish
> > he really had one)?  This kind of stuff is all a bunch of crap!
> >
> > I thought this list was started to get away from this type of
> thing.  I for
> > have better things to do, so I hope we can drop any "I've got one
> > better-than-thou" attitude on this list.
> >
> > Les Myer
> > lmyer@qtm.net
> > 67 Sprite
> > 77 Midget
> > PDLJMPR Web Magazine
> > http://www.probe.net/~lmyer




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