spridgets
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: My Daughter, My Sprite

To: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Subject: Re: My Daughter, My Sprite
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 22:56:39 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
In-reply-to: <374CBEBE.856528EF@exit109.com>
Reply-to: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Frank,
if that boyfriend of hers breaks up with her, let me know... :-)
Ulix


On Wed, 26 May 1999, Frank Clarici wrote:

> I just had to tell any interested people about my Daughter and my
> Sprite.
> She is 16, her car is the 59 Austin A40 (1275, Weber, LCB, etc) anyway,
> she has her learners permit with 43 days to go before she gets her
> license.
> Saturday my wife picked her up from her boyfriends house in PA with my
> Sprite.
> Of course she gets to drive with a licensed driver. She drives it home,
> her 2nd time driving my Sprite. Her first time was home from school with
> me a month or so ago.
> Tonight was her school concert, I was late, Mom took her in the VW and I
> arrived with my Sprite just as it started. At the end my daughter asked
> if I had the Sprite, "Of course I did" She drives home.
> Now not only does she squeel the wheels, chirp 2nd gear, wind out all 4
> before shifting to 5th at about 65 mph, she "blips" the throttle between
> gears!!!
> I asked her where she learned THAT? Answer.........................
> I hear you do it all the time she says!
> A chip off the ole block. That's my girl!
> Now if I can just get her to slow down a bit around the corners.
> 
> Thanks for reading
> -- 
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> Bugeye Sprite
> 67 Sprite
> 59 A40
> http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/
> 

    Ulix                                       __/__,__      ___/__|__  
..............................................(_o____o_)....<_O_____O_/...
                                              '67 Sprite     '74 X1/9


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>