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Re: Worlds Fastest Bugeye

To: M Brouillette <mbrouill@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Worlds Fastest Bugeye
From: Leigh Ellen Johnson <ljohnson@cit.gu.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 13:18:40 +1000 (EST)
Cc: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
In-reply-to: <3.0.32.19981119094830.00709914@popd.ix.netcom.com>
Reply-to: Leigh Ellen Johnson <ljohnson@cit.gu.edu.au>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Is that the car that found it's way downunder?  I think Mike (Gigante)
knows about this one....

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Leigh Ellen Johnson
'62 Mk II Sprite - 'Ebony'

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the
shoulders of giants"  Isaac Newton

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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, M Brouillette wrote:

> Folks,
> 
>       I wasn't even looking to find the world's fastest Bugeye, but by 
>accident,
> I think I found it.  In the Nov 69 Road & Track, there was an ad for a:
> Jaguar Sprite
> 300-bhp Westlake Jaguar engine, 4.2 box and axle, Lotus rear suspension,
> Minilite wheels, triple 45 Webers, Engineer designed, professional built.
> 0-60 in 4 seconds.   Picture looks like a Speedwell front end... 
> 
>   It was being sold by a gentleman in Manchester England.  Anyone know what
> happened to this car?
> 
> 


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