[Spridgets] 1986-87 Graduate model

[Joel Baldwin]

<slapping forehead>
Alpha Romeo!  not Fiat   <duh>!

my bad

--On Monday, July 25, 2016 5:39 AM -0500 Jim Seippel 
<aseippel at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> In the Graduate, the car was an Alfa 1600 Spider.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_Spider#The_Graduate_film  Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spridgets [mailto:spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
> Joel Baldwin via Spridgets Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2016 1:47 PM
> To: Kirk Hargreaves via Spridgets
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] 1986-87 Graduate model
>
>
> I think you're mixing up 'spider' and 'sprite'.
>
> As I remember, the tiny sports car in 'The Graduate' was a Fiat Spider.
>
> And neither Sprites nor Midgets were being built in 86-7.  This list is
> for the British cars 1958-1969 Austin Healey Sprites and 1962-1979 MG
> Midgets, not the Italian car Fiat Spider.
>
> --On Saturday, July 23, 2016 12:48 PM -0700 Kirk Hargreaves via Spridgets
> <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Help me please, I am tempted.  A guy near our home has this up for
>> sale, a Graduate original 68k on the odometer (unless rolled back but
>> the car with all records looks like the accurate mileage).
>>
>>
>> Red with paint having been buffed to hard on trunk . . white showing.
>> No mud in the body that I can tell via magnet and second owners
>> testimony.
>>
>>
>> Seams in the seats beginning to come apart.
>>
>>
>> He says the electrics have been re-done with an updated harness to
>> hopefully avoid gremlins common to this mark.
>>
>>
>> Wants 5k - which according to "sold cars" on eBay indicates they trade
>> for around 5k, give or take.
>>
>>
>> Soooooooo . . . how difficult are these cars in terms of reliability?
>>
>>
>> Is "Fix it Again Tony" the thing that consistently applies to this
>> model?
>>
>>
>> Kirk
>>