[Spridgets] (no subject)

[Mike/Donna Carpenter]

Hi Michael,

I was referring to what was happening in the 1980s and the early 1990s with the Austin healey club magazine.  I had a Big healey friend that had every magazine or newsletter that they put out and I was on night shift at the time so I would read from cover to cover every issue from every year from the beginning.  I wouldn't waste my money investing in the club as very little is fitting to the best Austin Healey - the Bugeye.

The Bugeye articles were, all but a few tech articles and restoration ones here and there, rather sickening.  

I can understand the "Limey" name as it refers to it being English and actually color also.  I remember as a kid being at Summit Point Raceway for the SCCA races in 1985 falling in love with a lime green and white race Bugeye.  I use to sneak into the paddock through the back woods and watch the owner (mechanic) work on it for hours.  He was kind of puzzled by me watching him for so long from a little distance, he waved for me to come over and he let me help him time the engine better and change the spark plugs.  That racer will never know how happy he made an 11 year old that day.

It will down hill from there . . . 


Mike C

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Conn <mconn19221 at roadrunner.com>
>Sent: Jan 17, 2008 10:42 AM
>To: Mike/Donna Carpenter <mail4carpenters at peoplepc.com>
>Cc: spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: [Spridgets] (no subject)
>
>Mike,
>
>I absolutely agree with your comments about the Austin Healey Club magazine.
>
>I'm pleased to be a member of the Club because I like to see my AN5 in the 
>booklet list.   This, in some way, promotes our "small Healeys".
>
>I just quickly go through the Club's magazine looking for articles on "small 
>Healeys".   (I can only remember finding one about the High School ladies 
>who restored the AN5 which subsequently sold at auction for $24,000.00.)   I 
>sometimes find AN5's for sale, and like to read these advertisements.
>
>When I've quickly gone through the magazine found no articles and read any 
>"for sale" advertisements, I put the magazine in the trash!
>
>My wife has a name for my AN5: "Limey".   She tells me there are two reasons 
>for this name: (i) its appalling green color and (ii) before becoming a US 
>citizen I was a Brit, and Limey, of course, is  WWII US slang for a person 
>from England.
>
>I recently wrote some erudite e-mails to the List with my views on talking 
>to spridgets, tetanus injections etc.   Did they help you in any way?
>
>Michael
>
>


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