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Re: Morris vs British Leyland

To: <Herb_Goede@amsinc.com>
Subject: Re: Morris vs British Leyland
From: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:20:05 -0400
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Reply-to: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Oh, yeah; one more thing about bugeyes.  Everyone knows that they were
really " girls' " cars!!!  (kind of like a VW Cabriolet is today)  Give me a
"manly Midget" any day!

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com <Herb_Goede@amsinc.com>
To: Wiedemeyer <boxweed@thebest.net>
Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Morris vs British Leyland


>
>
>
>    Oh, c'mon!!  Everyone knows that the Bugeye was just a poor excuse of a
>    prototype for the Midget! -- I mean, who could ever really take serious
>a
>    car with no trunk lid and no way to store a muddy flat tire other than
>    dragging it across the seats to stow in a dark boot?!  And the
>    headlights! ---- Did they forget about them when they were designing
>the
>    car, then add them as an afterthought?
>
>Why yes they did!  And what's up with those rear wheel arches? You can
>definitely tell the two ends were designed by different groups.
>
>With sprites (and their gaudy midget clones)just like the Jag E-type, the
>Ford T-bird, the Dodge Daytona, the Ford Mustang..... later models are
>never quite as good as the original.
>
>Fire when ready.
>
>Herb G.
>AN5
>


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