[Spridgets] Where were you when the LBC bug got you?

[Guy R Day]

I had a liking for the simplicity and ease of repair to the BMC A series 
engine together with the modifications that made it into a decent small 
power plant for quite a while before bug-eyes got to me.  Some 30 odd years 
ago I was driving across a roundabout on a Motorway (Freeway) junction when 
I saw an Austin Healey Sprite broken down on the shoulder.  Being a helpful 
guy (and seeing the rather tasty looking girl with the car) I stopped to 
offer help.  It was only then I saw her boyfriend appeared from under the 
hood (big, very big, like a cross between a weight lifter and a large rugby 
player) who heard me offer help and he said, "You can't fix it, nobody can, 
I have tried and it can't be done.  I've called the AA out."  Five minutes 
later the car was running after the ground (earth) lead in the distributer 
was repaired.  Boyfriend sat in the car with the door firmly closed, a face 
like thunder and looks that were shortening my life span but the angel in 
human form gave me her telephone number.  To cut several months out that 
have nothing to do with the love of motors, the car became mine and life 
moved on with fond memories.  It was a daily driver for many years and is 
now the donor car for the partially completed transplant to a new shell. 
But that is another story that will not develop until after my father-in-law 
dies.

Guy R Day


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lotuspilot at frontier.com>
To: "Linda Grunthaner" <grunthaner at gmail.com>
Cc: "Spridget list" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Where were you when the LBC bug got you?


> The year was 1980 and I was 10.  I was at Summit Point Raceway (SCCA)with 
> my parents.  There were quite a few Bugeyes and Lotus Sevens in the 
> paddock.  I had a bicycle with me and access to the pits.  It went down 
> hill from there.  I have owned 5 Bugeyes, a '65 Spitfire, 3 Mk II Sprites, 
> 1 Mk I Midget, '67 Sprite, 68 Sprite, 69 Sprite and 73 MG Midget. Then I 
> moved on to the best . . . series one lotus Super Seven and early series 
> two Seven America after I sold my series two Super Seven.  I still have a 
> '61 Bugeye and a '62 Sprite that is going to vintage race.
>
> I have loved every minute of my illness.
>
> Mike Carpenter
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda Grunthaner" <grunthaner at gmail.com>
> To: "Spridget list" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 6:10:07 AM
> Subject: [Spridgets] Where were you when the LBC bug got you?
>
> List I was just discussing with Kirk about when the LBC bug got you 
> hooked,
> his was in a VW camper driving past LBC's at San Diego State College and
> seeing them on campus in the 1960's I don't recall mine perhaps as my 
> older
> brother called out the American cars while in the back seat of the family
> car and I saw a MGTD or an MGA and he may have said that is a British car. 
> I
> was hooked ever since.
>
> So what did you see how old were you and what year was it when you got
> hooked?
>
> This should be fun to see the replies : )
> Lin
> _______________________________________________
> _______________________________________________
>
> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
> Suggested annual donation  $12.75
> Archive: http://www.team.net/archive
> Forums: http://www.team.net/forums
> Unsubscribe/Manage: 
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/grday@btinternet.com