I lived on Maui 10 years and bought my Midget there. Was a lot of fun on
those roads. When I bought mine, I looked at 3 or 4 that were in the paper
at the same time. I kept the car in Kula, which is much dryer than Hana.
The owner is not necessarily an optimist. If the rust gets ahead of him, it
just becomes a "Maui cruiser". I owned a '79 Toyota Landcruiser when I
lived in the Haiku area, just off the Hana highway..... I fought the rust
for awhile, but it finally won. I grew up in the desert and didn't know
what rust was until I moved to Hawaii. In the Philppines, they solve that
problem with stainless steel or aluminum. I now live near Washington DC and
find the rust challenge only slightly better than rainforest.
----- Original Message -----
From Steven Michelsen <stevenm at optonline.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 3:48 AM
Subject: the only spridget on Maui??
> I just spent nine days on Maui on a combination business-and-pleasure
trip.
> Throughout my stay I kept my eye out for Spridgets. I saw exactly ONE,
> parked on the front lawn of a house in Hana, right on the "road to Hana",
in
> the rainforest. It looks like it's in the middle of a restoration, with
> half of the paint in primer. Seeing as it rains there at least part of
> every day, the owner is definately an optomist. Is the owner on the list?
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