[Spridgets] Best Spridget for a condo owner

Macy Larry lmacy at mac.com
Sat Jun 4 08:57:24 MDT 2011


And remember that the real name of the T and Y series was Midget.

Larry

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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.

One of these days, you'll look back on all this, and plow into a parked car.

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On Jun 4, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Allen Hefner <lbc77mg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Haysoos marimba, kool yer jets!  I only asked about the best car for me,
> living in a condo with no garage or place to work on a car.
> 
> I don't think anybody seriously believes the Miata or the Jeep are Brit
> Cars.  They both have tenuous connections to the wonderful heritage Great
> Britain brought to sports car history, but NO newcomer will ever be more
> important or more loved than the early MG T-series that started it all.  The
> Spridget is a DIRECT descendent of the MG-TC.
> 
> The Miata and Jeep are "world cars."
> 
> End of line
> 
> Allen Hefner
> Norristown, PA
> 
> *Current:*
> 2006 Chebbie
> *Former:*
> 1963 Sunbeam Alpine Series III
> 1967 Triumph TR4A IRS
> 1964 VW Type I
> 1967 VW Type II
> 1967 Rover 2000TC
> 1977 MG Midget
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Guy R Day <grday at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well thought through David.
>> However, I don't think you can make a serious claim the Jeep was a British
>> design and I would suggest Nippon Miata groups whilst acknowledging the
>> Miata to be generally based on British design would not claim it to be a
>> LBC.  Bits of it may well be improved (and other bits not improved) copies
>> based on LBCs but it certainly sticks in my throat to say a Mazda is a
>> British car - just as it would to claim a Jeep is British.
>> Guy R Day
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lieb" <72spridget at gmail.com>
>> To: "Guy R Day" <grday at btinternet.com>; "Spridgets" <
>> spridgets at autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 7:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Best Spridget for a condo owner
>> 
>> 
>> If you follow this argument then you can make a WWII Jeep to be derived
>>>> from
>>>> a British design!!
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Well, the original WWII Jeep was designed by the American Bantam
>>> Company of Butler, Pennsylvania, which had built Austin Sevens under
>>> license (like BMW had), so maybe there is a relationship there...
>>> David L
>>> 
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