Minneapolis, where, in March, you can still tell what brand of tire left
November's ruts. Where I still can't take the motorcycle or the Midget out on
the road much because they haven't swept up the sand. Where they have to take
measures to prevent the street runoff from flowing directly into the
Mississippi so that St. Louis doesn't have to drink salt water. Where there
are only two seasons: winter and road construction.
Not that Michigan, especially the U.P., doesn't have some real winters.
Phil Vanner
New Englander by birth, New Yorker by training, Midwesterner by accident
-----Original Message-----
From: lmyer@sprynet.com [SMTP:lmyer@sprynet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 5:34 PM
To: Phil Vanner
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca
Phil,
Unless you live in Michigan you cannot claim the road salt capital title. :-)
Les Myer
----Original Message-----
>From: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
>To: "'Chris Kotting'"
<ckotting@iwaynet.net>;"spridgets@autox.team.net"<spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca
>Reply-To: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
>Date: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:22 PM
>
>True, My Midget still has a "Burbank Sportscar Center" badge on it.
>
>Phil Vanner
>Neither East nor West, but the Road Salt Capital of the World.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Kotting [SMTP:ckotting@iwaynet.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 6:27 AM
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: East vs. West/Sports Car Mecca
>
>I don't know that they necessarily crossed either pond. I'd wager that
>just as many ended up going north and east, where "rust free" is such a
>rarity!
>
>Chris Kotting
>ckotting@iwaynet.net
>
>On Tuesday, April 07, 1998 5:04 AM, bhndrson@west.net
>[SMTP:bhndrson@west.net] wrote:
>>
>> Larry Miller wrote:
>>
>> >Amen to that. I have also noticed that most of the activity is in the
>> >Mid-East to East. Very rare to see an english car for sale around here
>> >(California Central Coast). I have not seen one being parted out for at
>> >least 10 years. More Rolls than Spridgets in this part of CA and it used
>to
>> >be a sports car Mecca.
>>
>>
>> I totally agree that southern California used to have more LBCs than you
>can
>> shake a stick at, but they have become rather rare, perhaps exceedingly
>so.
>> I would venture a guess that many of the LBCs originally found in the
>> southwestern United States have been purchased and shipped out of the
>> country back to Europe and Japan. Rust is a major factor in purchasing
>one
>> of these little beasties and southern California and Arizona have always
>> been places where people look for a car if they are interested in a good
>> example.
>>
>> Bruce Henderson
>> 1969 Sprite
>
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