- 121. RE: Connections (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:43:37 -0500
- Might want to bring along a long stick and some marshmallows for roasting on the inevitable fire that will occur (don't ask me how I know..........I just know). Would hate to lose a good lister. Dani
- /html/spridgets/1998-11/msg00460.html (9,435 bytes)
- 122. RE: Connections (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:28:31 -0500
- Wow, I'm still laughing over that one........ held up a match! HA, Ha, ha, hee, hee ,hee! Just like Wile E. Coyote in the cartoons! My story wasn't as bad as that, the car and the dumb owner survived
- /html/spridgets/1998-11/msg00465.html (10,513 bytes)
- 123. RE: Connections (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:52:22 -0500
- Ooooooo, that's a good one too! Let's start a contest! I will donate some useless but fascinating piece of ancient Spridget stuff to the winner. We can make a trophy. Daniel T. P.S. we havn't heard f
- /html/spridgets/1998-11/msg00469.html (9,587 bytes)
- 124. what is Diolen? (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:35:02 -0500
- Silly question from me: I just heard about a company in the U.K. that manufactures replacement bonnets for Bugeyes in fiberglass, kevlar, or Diolen. Anybody out there know what Diolen is? Any relatio
- /html/spridgets/1998-11/msg00521.html (7,194 bytes)
- 125. answer to Diolen question (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:17:39 -0500
- Thanks to Alan Fisher I have the answer to my question on the material Diolen. It seems as though this is a Brand for an industrial fiber better known to us as "polyester". So what will it be sir, a
- /html/spridgets/1998-11/msg00523.html (7,618 bytes)
- 126. RE: UPDATE : Removing tie rod Ball Joints (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 16:51:39 -0500
- One: England is the old country, everything is old over there. Two: you guys over there have a goofy word for everything. "bonnet", yeeesh. Three: you misunderstood Sir Peter of Wisconsin; he merely
- /html/spridgets/1998-11/msg00559.html (8,929 bytes)
- 127. RE: Humor (no LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:52:38 -0500
- For those of us who s*bscribe to the various Jag lists (the E-type one in particular) this is no joke but an accurate reflection of reality. Those guys have even gone so far as to sue each other for
- /html/spridgets/1998-11/msg00639.html (7,502 bytes)
- 128. RE: Door pockets for MKI Sprite (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:09:32 -0500
- I assume you are talking about a bugeye. I have always heard that the best source for original style interiors is AHSpares in England. No web site but you can email them at: ahspares@dial.pipex.com V
- /html/spridgets/1998-11/msg00733.html (9,017 bytes)
- 129. RE: More Front Suspension (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:20:02 -0500
- I'm really stumped on this "problem". Don't really have an answer for you except why not try an "Italian tune-up". I'm assuming you did not drive this car yet, of course. When I put the front end to
- /html/spridgets/1998-11/msg00741.html (11,414 bytes)
- 130. This is a new one for Ebay auctions! (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:57:48 -0500
- Anybody want a rusty Bugeye bonnet? (I have a few myself!) Check out http://www.ebay.com and type in "bugeye bonnet" Good luck and bid high! Daniel T. P.S. this is not my bonnet! I am just joking!
- /html/spridgets/1998-11/msg00794.html (7,059 bytes)
- 131. RE: Canada/USA Tour (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:59:11 -0400
- I met up with them when they stopped overnight in Montreal on Sept. 28th. Very nice people, nice cars. All the cars were dirty and ahd dirt, dust, and bugs on them. Can you imagine driving a 1932 Bu
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00009.html (8,143 bytes)
- 132. RE: Canada/USA Tour (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:50:54 -0400
- Well said. In my case more like 30 years away. Somebody ask those Brits how they manage that ;-) Daniel Europe? Just as soon as I get a job that will let me take off for 4 weeks in a row (or when I r
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00013.html (8,452 bytes)
- 133. AN5-L612 just came out of spray booth (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:12:55 -0400
- Finished spraying the bugeye shell at 8p.m. last night. Lots and lots of coats of Dupont Premiere (great paint BTW). Was worroied that the Dark Green formula we mixed up would look different "in the
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00015.html (7,709 bytes)
- 134. RE: AN5-L612 just came out of spray booth (delete if you don't care about originality) (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 09:51:29 -0400
- Consider it done. I am keeping the 8"x8" section of heelboard with the original dark green paint on it. Could this be the only piece of dark green factory paint still out there? I have been researchi
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00052.html (11,270 bytes)
- 135. RE: AN5-L612 just came out of spray booth (delete if you don't care about originality) (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 12:46:41 -0400
- Of course, many listers would like to know how hard you had to pull to open the trunk lid on a Bugeye! :-) Daniel --Original Message-- From: Michael Dietsche [SMTP:mdietsche@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday,
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00060.html (10,333 bytes)
- 136. msg00067.html (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:44:42 -0400
- Poor Michael, we're all having a good laugh at his expense! We love you Mike, just kidding! Maybe it was one of those later Spridgets with a Bugeye bonnet on it; or maybe Michael was thinking of the
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00067.html (6,813 bytes)
- 137. RE: From: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca> (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 14:01:14 -0400
- Absolutely right! Daniel Everyone has to remember that the chances of any LBC having original paint that matches any other original paint is remote. I spoke with Donald Healey about this subject many
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00068.html (7,855 bytes)
- 138. RE: frogeye bodyshell? (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 14:22:39 -0400
- I don't have their coordinates. Try someone in the U.K. It may take a while for your prophesy to come true, but you're right! I think that Wheeler & Davis use Heritage "later" Midget shells as the ba
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00069.html (8,092 bytes)
- 139. RE: alignment & jig data? (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 14:24:56 -0400
- I should think that would be a very difficult undertaking, and expensive! You could try to do what Wheeler & Davis (and others) have done. Buy a stripped version of the Heritage shell and start modif
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00070.html (7,812 bytes)
- 140. seeking a copy of the book "Sprite MG Midget Handbook and Service Manual" by Floyd Clymer (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:38:47 -0400
- If anyone on the list has a copy of this book circa early 1960's, I would like to borrow a copy in order to Xerox a few pages or outright buy a copy. If I borrow I will compensate for mailing charges
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00128.html (8,025 bytes)
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