Mike,
Is it white??? if not, you may be OK, but just to be safe, make sure you keep
both cars at least 50 feet apart, and NEVER park the sprite anywhere behind the
F150. As an extra precaution, make sure there is some kind of barrier between
the truck and bugeye at all times.
:-) - Bryan Vandiver
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>I just bought a new Ford F-150. Does this mean I'm going to back over my own
>Bugeye?
>Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
>
>Bryan Vandiver wrote:
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>> That's beautiful man! (uncontrollable sobbing) I hope you and your bugeye
have
>> many (sob) happy (sob) years (sob) together!
>>
>> Oh - BTW, when you get it finished and start driving it around... Don't ever
>> park behind a Ford F150, especially if it's white.
>>
>> Regards - Bryan Vandiver (59-sprite) in need of new bonnet
>> San Jose, CA
>>
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>> >Subject: Got my dream car.
>> >
>> >A short story to share with the list.
>> > In 1979 I was 17 years old and interested in cars. A young man across
>> the street bought a 59 bugeye for
>> >$500 and set to work restoring it. In the process, he taught me everything
he
>> knew about car repair as I
>> >passed him the wrenches. I went off to college and he drove off in a
beautiful
>> red bugeye with a tricked out
>> >948cc.
>> >
>> >Thirty years passed.
>> >
>> > I reconnected with the 'young man' from across the street last month.
>> That bugeye had been sitting in
>> >his gargage for the last 12 years. Now green, sporting a bored and ported
>> 1275cc with a single SU feeding a
>> >Rayjay turbocharger. After a brief period of pathetic pleading from the
>> kneeling position the car is mine.
>> >Trailered to Davis, CA and tucked safely in MY garage. Total restoration
now
>> under way slated for completion
>> >this spring.
>> > Multiple queries about the best way to do this or that will hit the
list
>> in the winter months to
>> >follow.
>> > Regards, Glen Byrns
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