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Re: Who's the oldest Spridget Club?

To: "Eriks Skinkis" <eriks@netspace.net.au>, "Australian Sprites and Midgets" <spridgets.aus@listbot.com>
Subject: Re: Who's the oldest Spridget Club?
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:59:37 -0800charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>, "UK Sprites and Midgets" <midgetspriteclub@listbot.com>, <newsletters@autox.team.net>
References: <38A49C9D.83224AD7@netspace.net.au> <38BCD495.A291D386@netspace.net.au>
Erics,

SMOG is no longer active. I don't know exactly when it started but it was
active in the late '60,s early '70's.

Larry Miller
----- Original Message -----
From "Eriks Skinkis" <eriks at netspace.net.au>
To: "Australian Sprites and Midgets" <spridgets.aus@listbot.com>
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>; "UK Sprites and Midgets"
<midgetspriteclub@listbot.com>; <newsletters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: Who's the oldest Spridget Club?


>
> A few weeks ago I sent a message to the 3 Spridget email lists that I
> know of
> asking for details about current Car Clubs that cater specifically for
> Sprites and
> Midgets to find out how many are out there and see who the oldest one
> was.
>
> I was a little dissapointed with the few responses I received, I thought
> there
> would be a few more clubs out there, perhaps there aren't? It appears
> many clubs
> that started as Sprite/Midget clubs were at some stage absorbed, or
> became general
> Austin Healey Clubs.
>
> Heres the list of current clubs. I don't have dates for when some of
> these clubs began so I've taken a guess at listing them in order of age:
>
> The Sprite Car Club of Australia - began June 1960 - Australia (NSW)
> The Austin Healey Sprite Drivers Club Inc. - began ?? - Australia (Vic.)
> Sprite Club of South Australia - began ?? - Australia (SA)
> SMOG (Sprite Midget Owners Group) - began ?? - USA (unclear as to
> whether still
> running)
> Midget & Sprite Club - began 1983 - UK
>
> Let me know if I've got it wrong or if there are any other clubs
> secretly lurking
> out there somewhere.
>
> Cheers,
> Eriks Skinkis
>
>
> Eriks Skinkis wrote:
>
> > Australian Sprites and Midgets -
http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/4936
> >
> > The Sprite Car Club of Australia turns 40 in June of this year. This
> > makes it one of the oldest continuously running Spridget clubs in the
> > world.
> >
> > I thought it would be interesting to make a list of all the Spridget
> > Clubs in the world and also see if we can work out who has the honour of
> > being the oldest right through to the youngest. Besides, having a list
> > of all the Spridgets Clubs could be a useful thing to have anyway.
> >
> > I would like to restrict this list to those clubs that are still in
> > existance and that cater specifically for the MG Midget and AH Sprite. I
> > don't want to include the general MG or Austin Healey Clubs otherwise
> > we'll end up with clubs that existed before our cars.
> >
> > So if you know of a Spridget Club and when it started (even if you don't
> > know when it started) let me know. I'll compile the list and publish the
> > results here.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Eriks Skinkis
> >
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