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RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca

To: "spridgets@autox.team.net" <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca
From: Chris Kotting <ckotting@iwaynet.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 07:26:55 -0400
Reply-to: Chris Kotting <ckotting@iwaynet.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
I don't know that they necessarily crossed either pond.  I'd wager that 
just as many ended up going north and east, where "rust free" is such a 
rarity!

Chris Kotting
ckotting@iwaynet.net

On Tuesday, April 07, 1998 5:04 AM, bhndrson@west.net 
[SMTP:bhndrson@west.net] wrote:
>
> Larry Miller wrote:
>
> >Amen to that. I have also noticed that most of the activity is in the
> >Mid-East to East. Very rare to see an english car for sale around here
> >(California Central Coast). I have not seen one being parted out for at
> >least 10 years. More Rolls than Spridgets in this part of CA and it used 
to
> >be a sports car Mecca.
>
>
> I totally agree that southern California used to have more LBCs than you 
can
> shake a stick at, but they have become rather rare, perhaps exceedingly 
so.
> I would venture a guess that many of the LBCs originally found in the
> southwestern United States have been purchased and shipped out of the
> country back to Europe and Japan.  Rust is a major factor in purchasing 
one
> of these little beasties and southern California and Arizona have always
> been places where people look for a car if they are interested in a good
> example.
>
> Bruce Henderson
> 1969 Sprite

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