[Spridgets] 1986-87 Graduate model

[CosmicMag1380]

Actually, there has been a bit more discussion of vizardry and some
sorcery. Not so much on the black magic unless you include smoke escaping
from wires in which case Lucas, Prince of Darkness, reigns supreme!


On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Phil Nase via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Witchcraft?
>
> Phil Nase
> Applebachsville, PA
> http://home.comcast.net/~philnasecpa/
>
> > On Jul 25, 2016, at 7:38 AM, Ron Soave via Spridgets <
> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
> >
> > Montana Bob?
> >
> > The car in the Graduate was an Alfa Duetto Spider. Alfa offered a Spider
> in "Graduate" form in the later 80s  in bare trim rather than the Veloce or
> Quadrofoglio to appeal to "graduates" on a lesser budget.
> >
> > Kirk and many others have been on this list for many years, and this
> list draws upon everything automotive as well as cats, Zappa, witchcraft.
> >
> > Ron Soave
> >
> >> On Jul 24, 2016, at 1:47 PM, Joel Baldwin via Spridgets <
> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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