I bought the first Midget that I saw when I was 15yrs old. When I knew what
I really wanted (age 17) I bought the first Bugeye for sale that I looked
at. I still have that Bugeye. ( I'm 38 yrs old now ) Neither car came home
under it's own power. Both were dirt cheap. And regarding # 2 The Sprite is
drop dead gorgeous ( IMHO ).
Mark Hanna
AN5 ( Under construction , 3rd time around the block )
> At 12:30 PM 6/30/00 -0400, Jeff Boatright wrote:
> >I looked at several LBCs and LBC-like cars before buying the Sprite
> >(MGBs, Datsun Roadsters, Sunbeam Alpines, various spridgets). I
> >bought the first one that met my wife's criteria (it was half her
> >money, after all):
> >
> >1) It had to arrive in our driveway under its own power.
> >
> >2) It had to look good across the distance between our driveway and
> >the street (i.e., it could not be an embarrassment to her in terms
> >of what the neighbors might think).
> >
> >3) The price had to be low enough to allow us to pay cash.
> >
> >Took 8 months of looking. In hindsight, those 3 criteria probably
> >saved us time and money, though.
> >
> >__________________________________________
> >Jeff Boatright '65 Sprite MkIII __o_\__
> >http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~jboatri/
>
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