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From: "Frank Clarici" <spritenut@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Bugeye Group..... Front Bumber
Larry Daniels wrote:
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> Page 21 of Horler:
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> "The front bumper was listed as an optional extra on home market cars but
> was standard on export versions."
This is sort of like the tach being an option too.
I believe all Sprites came with the tach.
Would you buy a car with a hole in the dash?
In the 60s, a radio and heater were options on American cars.
If you lived in Maine, it was one of those "gotta have it" options.
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Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
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I think you're right, Frank. My guess is that they built the list of
"standard" features to meet a certain price point for marketing. But I
doubt many came without certain options -- that tach being one of them. A
sports car w/o a tach? I doubt it.
It sems to me that American car companies were doing the same thing a while
back. Some "options" just weren't optional. Every car came from the
factory with them already installed -- like it or not.
That Austin pickup that I recently bought may be the exception. It has NO
options. Not even a heater. Doesn't it get cold in New Zealand?
LD
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