- 61. Re: wheel quality question (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 03:19:23 EDT
- Saw a Bugeye last weekend with Panasport wheels. Bob and Annice << Shawn, AFAIK, Moss and VB both sell the Minator wheel. Does Panasport sell theirs in the right bolt pattern size and offset for our
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00423.html (7,428 bytes)
- 62. Re: Back from Boston (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:47:35 EDT
- Welcome back Paul, We may (???) be out on the road in a couple of weeks. If so will see about getting together for that meal that we owe you. Stay tuned to the constantly changing world of Bob and An
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00511.html (6,717 bytes)
- 63. Re: Mark I? (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:47:43 EDT
- Just checked some of our old BMC documents. There is no reference to a Mark I Sprite, just Sprite, Sprite Mk II, III & IV, Midget Mk I, II & III. No offense to the RB folks, we just do not have any d
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00512.html (8,601 bytes)
- 64. Re: Mark I? (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:47:45 EDT
- << You specify "little d" or "big D" when you order parts. >> Yes, - - - - once had a M-B 220a. There was no 220A however (I think) Bob and Annice
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00513.html (8,151 bytes)
- 65. Re: It's a sickness! (long) (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:47:41 EDT
- << I've owned one of my Bugeye's since 65/66 (can't remember that far back). I know some listers have owned their Bugeye since new (Bob/Ann). >> OK, we have been caught. In 1959 I (Bob) was driving a
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00514.html (10,080 bytes)
- 66. Re: It's a sickness! (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 20:10:41 EDT
- << I keep telling my wife it's time to trade her in for 2) 21 year olds. She says 2) 21 year olds would kill me. >> Frank, Has your wife been talking to my wife? <G> Bob
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00517.html (8,728 bytes)
- 67. Re: English terminology (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 03:36:48 EDT
- << You do understand that they are talking about body working with lead, don't you? Superior to Bondo but much more expensive, heavier and harder to use. I recently stripped a '79 RX7 for painting. T
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00800.html (7,331 bytes)
- 68. Re: looking for side curtains (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 03:36:50 EDT
- << Does anyone have a nice set of side curtains for sale? I would like the bag for them also, if possible of course. It's for my car I just got on the road - winter coming and all. TIA Jon Paschke 58
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00801.html (6,982 bytes)
- 69. Re: Intro (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 03:47:16 EDT
- Hello Ross, Welcome to the list where everything gets aired and a lot of great LBC stuff also. Bob and Annice 1960 Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) 1966 Sprite Mk III (in boxes) (Trevor ?) Judson Superchar
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01183.html (7,160 bytes)
- 70. Texas Healey RoundUp 2000 (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 03:47:24 EDT
- Wow, have you folks been busy the past couple of days. Been cleaning the garage and not keeping up on the e-mails. So here is some additional information on the Texas Healey RoundUp 20. April 7-8, 20
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01184.html (7,021 bytes)
- 71. Re: BMC manual(s) (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:24:06 EDT
- Do not know if the color has any meaning. Our Bugeye BMC workshop manual, 3 ring binder, is blue, purchased in from the dealer in 1960. The BMC workshop manual for Sprites Mk II, III, IV and Midgets
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01218.html (7,793 bytes)
- 72. Re: BMC manual(s) (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 02:28:51 EDT
- Hi Gerard, I should have learned by now not to put anything on this list until I go back and check it out <G> Both of my manuals are four ring binders not three ring binders. The Sprite and Midget ma
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01256.html (8,332 bytes)
- 73. Re: Tach drive (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:10:48 EDT
- I have SDP's "Handbook of Gears" if that will be of any help. Bob (and Annice) << I have been working with a machinist in town to try to come up with gears to replace those in a generator tach reduc
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01493.html (8,025 bytes)
- 74. Re: Dizzy problems and now a gearbox (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:10:45 EDT
- <<My need for a new gearbox is looming hard and fast. <-snip-> but she's fairly original including mechanically: 948 motor, drum brakes, etc. The only mechanical mod (that I know of) is the alternato
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01494.html (9,144 bytes)
- 75. Re: Elizabeth's GT (Get Together) (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:59:28 EDT
- << While I don't mind driving 2,000 miles in the Midget and have done it several times, my wife has a different view of that kind of motoring. >> Drive the car, fly the wife :-) Bob and Annice 1960 S
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01575.html (8,880 bytes)
- 76. Re: Listers age (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:19:23 EDT
- Oh alright, we are 62, the Sprite is 39 1/2, we have had it all that time. We both maintain and drive the car. (it's really her car) Bob and Annice << I might as well get into this. I am 62 years old
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01735.html (9,209 bytes)
- 77. Re: Elizabeth's GT (Get Together) (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:19:21 EDT
- << As to the conditions of Texas roads...I hope you have to go through Arkansas first, then you will appreciate the fine roads of Texas! >> That is for sure, except for I-10/I-20 in west Texas. Maybe
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01736.html (9,125 bytes)
- 78. Re: Listers age (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 23:24:33 EDT
- Good for you. The cars are great, being an original owner adds just that much more joy. Bob and Annice << I Too might as well chime in; I am 35 and my midget is 20 years old. I have owned her for the
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01751.html (8,747 bytes)
- 79. Re: Zoom, was Elizabeth's GT (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 23:24:36 EDT
- whenever I get behind the wheel. On a long run I usually take it up to 105 once and now and again I take it over 115mph.<<< On a pre-75 Midget, I am at 4000 RPMs at 65 mph, approximately. At this poi
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01752.html (8,719 bytes)
- 80. Re: Elizabeth's GT (Get Together) (score: 1)
- Author: Bkitterer@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 23:54:16 EDT
- Don't bet on it. They are down to one lane for about 10 miles east of El Paso, and bumpy rutted for the next 100.......... R. Houston >> It has been that way for the past two years ! ! ! Have they be
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg01756.html (8,788 bytes)
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