[Spridgets] Grandson's 1st Brit vehicle

[Larry Macy]

Hey proud Granddad, send me a pic ;-)

Sounds like a fun, heart warming project for a nice weekend.

Larry

On Jul 18, 2009, at 11:48 PM, Frank wrote:

> Frankie the 5th just took possession of his first classic British  
> vehicle.
> A 1972 genuine English pram (aka baby buggy)
> Back in 72, my soon to be boss was stationed in England, his wife  
> had a girl, she bought a cool looking baby buggy while over there.
> His 2nd child also used that pram. Flash forward to 1979, I have a  
> son, my boss gives me the pram since his girls have out grown it,  
> now they are 7 and 5.
> We use it for our kids until about 1983, now it's an aging baby buggy.
> We gave it to relatives who used it and put it away until now. We  
> forgot about it, they gave it back today,  a rusty fadded buggy.
> So Diane bleached the frilly lace and repainted the snaps white, she  
> cleaned the Wilton Wool coach and I spent the day brass wheeling and  
> steel wooling all the chrome and each of the 14 spoke wire wheels  
> and bleaching the solid rubber white tires.
> This thing came out stunning! All chrome wheels, frame, handle,  
> brake bars etc and a blue coach with white frilly.
> It beats the heck out of the chinese made plastic POS the kids tried  
> to use.
> This thing has chrome fenders over wire wheels! Not plastic molded  
> tires on plastic wheels with no fenders.
> Oh there are no warning labels plastered all over the pram in 4  
> languages and I guess the kid could get his fingers pinched if he  
> sticks them in the folding metal frame, or he could get sick if he  
> gnaws the chrome off the handle but it will not collapse if he jumps  
> around, the tires will not wear out after a few trips to Grandpa's  
> house, and there is not a spec of plastic on the thing anywhere.
> Daughter in law loves it, all the neighbors saw it and the new born  
> today, the ladies admired the baby, the men admired the coach.
> Now they can put the "new" buggy where it belongs, in the trash with  
> the rest of the chinese crap and maybe when my son becomes a  
> granddad, he can clean up the pram for his grandkid. I know it will  
> last another 37 years.
>
> -- 
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> My own Fleet of Sprites
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Larry Macy
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