I'm bruce, I'm in Northern Indiana, own a '65 Midget bought this last August
at a Garage Sale.
the car had been stashed, non running in a barn for eight years. I believe
numerous PO's had kept trading it around using it as a project car, thus
it's had a lot of different personalities working on it, but the last was a
body man who repaired a crushed right front corner. .
I had owned English cars in my younger and more foolish days, (B's, B-GT's
and a TR-3) and when i saw this BRG Midget being rolled out of a garage, I
said "oh yeah. Oh yeah, how much you want for that little puppy?"
Now I probably paid too much for it, as I never heard it run, I broke the
clutch hydraulic line inspecting it, it had no top and had big globs of
electrical tape covering wirenutted splices. But it was BRG and I fell in
love with it.
I drug out my check book, paid for it and then went home to face my wife.
I said, "honey, I bought a car, I really had to have it, but I need your
help to have to tow it home." Thus we proceeded to get out my 8hp circa
1963 Wheelhorse and as my wife walked beside me th four blocks to it's
location she was wondering "just what big kind of piece of shit did my jerk
of a husband get himself into". Being four blocks away she couldn't get
too worked up to start berating me. When she saw it, she too, fell in love
with it, and sat in it as I towed it back, steering it, and going (you
guessed it) "vroom, vroom" A big smile was on her face.
after getting it home, finding the mechanical fuel pump (motor from a Mark
I?????) installed upside down, full of varnish, I cleaned it, reassembling
it thinking how refreshing it was to actually be able to actually work on
parts of a car, rather than replacing whole assemblies. I put a fresh
battery in it, and it fired right up.
After cleaning the 3 pounds of mouse crap out of the interior, and getting
all the animal nests out of the engine compartment. I grabbed my SU and
drove it around the block.
Yes, it's got it's problems, but it was, after a brake redo on all corners,
safe to drive up to 35 mph (needs shocks bad). We used it to run errands up
to December 30th. My wife loves it, I love it and I extolled it's virtues
to a friend in North Carolina. Since then, he got the bug, found a MG
needing body work (his forte) and he told me of these lists. He lurks over
at mgs@.... I lurk both places.
I've really enjoyed the information streaming downline.
I also want to express appreciation to Winner's Circle, near Cleveland.
They are really wonderful people to work with and are very expediant in
getting the parts out. I found them through their website
www.spridgets.com
I can do without the towing issue though......... ;-}>
bruce@woodward-realty.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 6:26 PM
Subject: subscribers
I see from the list statistics that there are 282 of us on the list.
How come I only read messages from about 10% of you?
Where are the rest of you?
Come out and introduce yourself!
We are a friendly bunch.
--
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
Lots of LBCs
http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
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