[Spridgets] Big online / live auction

[Bud Osbourne]

When original sheet metal keeps getting more and more difficult to
obtain, and reproductions are only so-so, it is amazing what some guys
will pay for REALLY rusty stuff.  Saw a pile of rust scale, at Import
Carlisle a few years ago, that bore a very strong resemblance to an
XK-120 front clip.  Someone snapped that thing right up, and paid over
$1000 for it!  I mean, the thing looked as much like a giant, rusty
spaghetti colander as it did a front end clip.
While I agree that the one with the supercharger looks like toast, a lot
of those parts will probably end up being salvageable & restorable.
Guys native to, and living in California, the Pacific NW, and the desert
SW will have a hard time understanding that we in the salt belt view
restoration candidates vs. parts cars in a completely different way than
you guys do.  My old favorite saying that "desperate men do desperate
things" really applies, here.
Bud Osbourne


-----Original Message-----
From: spridgets-bounces+abcoz=hky.com at autox.team.net
[mailto:spridgets-bounces+abcoz=hky.com at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
Mike/Donna Carpenter
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:43 PM
To: David Lieb; Spridget List
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Big online / live auction

They all pretty much look like decent parts cars.  Too much of that
Northeast rust thing going on.

The one with the supercharger looks to be toast!  

Mike C

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Lieb <dbl at chicagolandmgclub.com>
>Sent: Jan 10, 2008 12:57 PM
>To: Spridget List <spridgets at autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Big online / live auction
>
>> Ran across this on ebay - a live auction of about 50 cars in
Hatfield, PA 
>> (near Phila), including TEN bugeyes in various states of disrepair. 
>> Here's a link to the bugeyes only - you can get to the rest of it
from 
>> there....
>> http://tinyurl.com/2cdu28
>>
>> Hopefully someone can find something worthwhile.
>
>We should all be there! Did you notice in the description that all 10
are 
>"1961 Bugeyes"? Historical vehicles, to be sure.
>Anon