OK Michael... one more "woe is me" and we're gonna come over an go medieval
on your ass (not in a Miata sort of way, of course).
-----Original Message-----
From: spridgets-bounces+wsthompson=thicko.com@autox.team.net
[mailto:spridgets-bounces+wsthompson=thicko.com@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
Michael Conn
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:39 PM
To: Glen Byrns
Cc: spridgets
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] was record resto, now Bondo tricks
Glyn.
Woe is me. Please, see my other e-mails on the subject. (Note, please, I
don't have a lot of money or the ability to do it myself. Wishful thinking
on my part.)
Woe is me.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Byrns" <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
To: "Michael Conn" <mconn2@bright.net>
Cc: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] was record resto, now Bondo tricks
> Don't take it too seriously Michael. Most of us are relating things we
> have found done by Previous Owners, God bless them all.
> It would be great if we all had the skills/equipment/money to swap out
> every dented panel, use only lead filler applied by a true "artiste" or
> hire top professionals for our restorations. But reality varies owner by
> owner. Even a taco-wrapper under a slug of Bondo beats a giant untended
> rust hole that sends another LBC to the crusher. Besides, it gives us an
> entire class of people to berate and demean on the list. Also a bunch of
> "can you top this?" DPO stories for when we meet.
>
> Most of us would never do any of these terrible things to our treasured
> little Spridgets. But for a dented Triumph however..............
>
>
> Glen
>
>
>
>> List.
>>
>> The stories about how to fill in holes in our spridgets are really quite
>> depressing, don't you think. Surely it's much more satisfying to do the
>> job properly (i.e. buy replacement panels or whatever). The first
>> e-mail
>> or so depressed me, so I'm just hitting delete now. We're to preserve
>> our
>> LBC's are we not? Don't send me e-mails full of abuse, I'll just hit
>> delete every time I see one.
>>
>> Sorry, feel a bit serious about this topic (not to mention depressed)!
>>
>> Michael
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