We flunked the first two criteria......
Re #1. Two of ours had to be towed home.....
Re #2. One is under a car cover because my husband doesn't want to insult
the neighbors........ The other is up and running (most of the time) <G>
and it is FUN!!!!
But we passed #3 with flying colors since one of them cost $1. and one was
free. :o)
Peggy
At 12:30 PM 6/30/00 -0400, Jeff Boatright wrote:
>I looked at several LBCs and LBC-like cars before buying the Sprite
>(MGBs, Datsun Roadsters, Sunbeam Alpines, various spridgets). I
>bought the first one that met my wife's criteria (it was half her
>money, after all):
>
>1) It had to arrive in our driveway under its own power.
>
>2) It had to look good across the distance between our driveway and
>the street (i.e., it could not be an embarrassment to her in terms
>of what the neighbors might think).
>
>3) The price had to be low enough to allow us to pay cash.
>
>Took 8 months of looking. In hindsight, those 3 criteria probably
>saved us time and money, though.
>
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>Jeff Boatright '65 Sprite MkIII __o_\__
>http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~jboatri/
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