I agree with you that Big Healey people are tops! The Big Healey owners in
the Triad Austin-Healey Club in North Carolina are a really great bunch of
people. If there is any snobbishness there, I have yet to see a trace of it.
And my Bugeye is pretty ratty, too. Heck, I know of at least one member who
doesn't even own a Healey, he owns an MGA!
Tom Zuchowski
'61 Bugeye
Clemmons, NC
-----Original Message-----
From: Lancer7676@aol.com <Lancer7676@aol.com>
To: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com <Herb_Goede@amsinc.com>; pvanner@pclink.com
<pvanner@pclink.com>
Cc: Spridgets@autox.team.net <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Calling All Midgets
>In a message dated 6/18/99 3:35:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>Herb_Goede@amsinc.com writes:
>
><< Big Healey owners treat us worse than Porsche 911 owners treat the 914
> crowd. >>
>
>
>I haven't found this to be the case. I know there are individual car
owners
>who are, in their own honest opinion, "holier than thou", but I don't think
>you can lump all Big Healey owners together. I am a member of the Smokey
>Mountain AUSTIN HEALEY Club, by virtue of my Sprite that I have under
>restoration (seems that I always have and always will have it under
>restoration), but I drive my Midget in all the club functions. We have a
pub
>night , very popular, once a month and park our cars on the grass lined up
>outside the Pub. My little blue Midget sits proudly flanked by Big
Healeys,
>and in April I was the Drive Captain of a Saturday weekend drive--the
Midget
>again proudly led the Big Healeys through the Tennessee Mountains. And I
>have felt absolutely no snobbishness on the part of the Big Healey
>owners/club member. Only acceptance.
>
>As to a separate MIDGET meet? I am not really in favor of splitting our
>ranks. I think that in BOTH the Austin Healey camp and the MG camp we
should
>promote not Sprite or Midget, but Spridget!! After all they are virtually
>the same car. So I would have shown up at Sprite Rush in my Midget and
>participated fully in everything I could, and if my Sprite is finished and
>there is a Midget thing, I might drive either one--who knows? My fender
fits
>your fender. 8^) ALWAYS be Siblings and always promote SPRIDGETS!!!
>
>My loose change on the issue!!!
>
>-----David
>
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