- 1. Re: Anybody have a clue? (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 07:51:21 -0600
- Windshield frame? Daniel1312@aol.com on 09/30/99 04:25:48 PM Please respond to Daniel1312@aol.com << I plan to do a frame-off restoration on it. >> What frame is he talking about? Daniel1312
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00006.html (7,171 bytes)
- 2. Re: Question re: '60 Bugeye (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 21:09:02 -0600
- I have had a Bugeye for 26 years. My family's first Midget was purchased overseas in 1964. In all of that time I cannot recall ever seeing a bugeye with the cutout behind the seat that came from the
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00103.html (8,721 bytes)
- 3. spridget tops (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 21:16:27 -0600
- I don't believe that the cockpit was changed from the MI to MkII Sprite to accomodate the top. My family had an early '64 (purchased new) and the top was mounted and removed the same way as all but
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00104.html (6,753 bytes)
- 4. Re: A-arm redux (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:54:54 -0600
- I must apologize. I know you said fulcrum pin but for some reason I was thinking king pin. So my comments made even less sense than usual. Sorry, if I confused you. Herb
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00158.html (6,825 bytes)
- 5. Re: Supertrapp (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:04:27 -0600
- Surprisingly, straight through is not usually the best flow - especially with small engines. Without some restriction/back pressure you lose torque. (I don't know exactly why but someone on the list
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00167.html (8,779 bytes)
- 6. Re: One last question (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 07:11:23 -0600
- Have not done it myself but have seen it done. The major parts you need are: 1) Wiring harness, 2) Steering rack ( I think a US Spec Morris Minor rack is the same as the UK spec Bugeye rack), 3) Das
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00194.html (7,357 bytes)
- 7. Re: NOS Bugeye Bonnet (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:24:40 -0600
- Ditto the NOS and OEM definitions. I've also heard that although the tooling used by BMH was from Abingdon, the tollerances were not quite up to snuff because the dies were worn beyond where BMC wou
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00292.html (8,258 bytes)
- 8. Re: MkI & MkII Questions (LONG) (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:29:29 -0600
- I'll need to disagree slightly with Frank. It won't be the first or last time. Just like anything else a car is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. A In my experience it is easier to se
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00294.html (10,020 bytes)
- 9. Re: MkI & MkII Questions (LONG) (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:28:05 -0600
- Absolutely correct! Have all the fun with the little beasts that you can that is what they are for. I'm really not trying to be argumentative or disparaging to the modifications some people have don
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00336.html (11,499 bytes)
- 10. master cap (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:00:10 -0600
- Hi list, Does anyone out there know where I can buy an original metal cap for a bugeye master cylinder? I'll pay a reasonable price. Herb
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00364.html (6,814 bytes)
- 11. Stock bumpers (no LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:05:25 -0600
- Pamela actually did shed her after market water wings. Evidently, she had some complications (probably back trouble) and decided the factory set was adequate. I tend to agree. Herb
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00365.html (7,040 bytes)
- 12. Re: Mark I? (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:25:03 -0600
- How about a Jaguar Mk I sedan/saloon. Triumph obviously doesn't know how to do this right. They have a TR4 and a TR4A. Should be TR4 and TR4B. Herb G
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00459.html (8,355 bytes)
- 13. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:27:12 -0600
- My story. Toby, my '59 was found in a junk yard in 1974. Dad and I put it back together, had it painted and I drove it for most of high school. It sat when I was in college and grad school. When I f
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00460.html (9,379 bytes)
- 14. RE: My sad story: Color choices (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:58:43 -0600
- List what are shaved door handles? Ignorance showing again.
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00468.html (8,361 bytes)
- 15. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:26:58 -0600
- It was Winston Churchill who described the U.K. and the U.S as "two countries separated by a common language". His mother was an American. So was mine. Herb G. "Larry Miller" <millerls@ado13.com> on
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00726.html (10,458 bytes)
- 16. Re: English terminology (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:51:50 -0600
- You do understand that they are talking about body working with lead, don't you? Superior to Bondo but much more expensive, heavier and harder to use. I recently stripped a '79 RX7 for painting. To
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00765.html (7,323 bytes)
- 17. Re: Fuel pump... and Altitude Sickness (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:29:37 -0600
- A "richer" mixture means more fuel not more air. The way most carbs work is that the air flow is constant in relation to demand. You adjust mixture by adjusting the amount of fuel that is mixed with
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00829.html (11,148 bytes)
- 18. Subjects (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:45:29 -0600
- I've noticed that the volume of messages has jumped severely recently. Many of them have little or no LBC content. I don't have a problem with discussions about cajun food on the list. I'm guilty of
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01087.html (7,177 bytes)
- 19. Abingdon? (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 09:57:31 -0600
- I've been under the impression, perhaps mistakenly so, that the Sprites and Midgets were not assembled at the same plant as the big Healeys. The story I heard was that the Healey production line cou
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01157.html (7,224 bytes)
- 20. Re: Abingdon? (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:51:23 -0600
- Thanks for the info. Appears I've been passing out wrong information for a long time now. Herb
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01159.html (6,883 bytes)
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