My daughter was born in 66' and either rode sitting on the middle of the
Bugeye "parcel shelf" with her legs in her mothers lap or on longer trips
sleeping on the "parcel shelf".
Stuff that you would go to jail for now.
Larry Miller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Lansing" <kidjoevid@yahoo.com>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:23 PM
Subject: '61 Road and Track
>I gotta wonder about this - from Linda's 1962 article
> in Road and Track regarding the brand spanking new
> Mark II Sprite - "the rear edge of the cockpit has
> been cut back 12" to provide room for a child..."
>
> Holy cow - were kids really small back then? Or did
> they have an inate ability to stand and sort of surf
> as the car motored along? I was born in 59, so I would
> have been a prime candidate for being folded into that
> tiny space - but my parents had the mild mannered
> approach of buying one of the early Volkswagen Buses.
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