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#476300 - 07/03/08 09:40 PM
My favorite square-body Spridget
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Yoda
Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 4143
Loc: Utah, USA
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If I didn't have the Bugeye... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110267283732I love this generation of Spridget, my favorite (especially in Midget form). RHD makes is just right. Pop in my new Hap-built motor and carbs, and good to go. If only I had funding... and room... and patience... 
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Drew Frink 1959 AH Sprite AN5L27843 -- Tunebug 2007 Triumph Bonneville http://www.drooartz.com
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#476310 - 07/03/08 10:05 PM
Re: My favorite square-body Spridget
[Re: tony barnhill]
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Jedi Knight
Registered: 05/10/07
Posts: 903
Loc: Chicago, IL
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I can be there in an hour and a half, give or take! Let me know! 
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Peter Hays Chicago, Il 1963 Mini Mk1 Traveller 1956 Jaguar Mk1 2.4
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#476325 - 07/03/08 11:06 PM
Re: My favorite square-body Spridget
[Re: tony barnhill]
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Jedi Trainee
Registered: 06/27/07
Posts: 392
Loc: Nebraska, USA
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I like the '67 with the full convertible top and 1275 with a better crank for that year only (nitrided? I think), but otherwise looks the same. Have been fortunate enough to have owned two of them. (not that I have anything against the '66, which was my first car, but was a Sprite.
Also like the round wheel arch cars well as the series II Sprite and Series I middget, just because you don't see too many of them anymore.
Greg
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#476327 - 07/03/08 11:14 PM
Re: My favorite square-body Spridget
[Re: glemon]
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Yoda
Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 4143
Loc: Utah, USA
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I'm watching it as well, but no possibility of bringing it home. One project at a time, that's the rule, and I don't think the seller would take a partially disassembled Bugeye in trade. 
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Drew Frink 1959 AH Sprite AN5L27843 -- Tunebug 2007 Triumph Bonneville http://www.drooartz.com
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#476346 - 07/04/08 12:20 AM
Re: My favorite square-body Spridget
[Re: drooartz]
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Jedi Hopeful
Registered: 04/01/08
Posts: 146
Loc: Kelso, Washington
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Apparently the rarest of the rare. Only one of that body style Spridget at LotO! Removable top like the earlier, wind up windows like the later.
TRUNKS RULE!
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1966 Sprite MK III - "the red thing" HAN8L49403 President, Pacific Northwest Chapter, Sprite Midget Club, USA
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#476355 - 07/04/08 12:59 AM
Re: My favorite square-body Spridget
[Re: Pythias]
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Jedi Trainee
Registered: 05/30/07
Posts: 266
Loc: Ames, Iowa, USA
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I like the 66 because it's got legitimate windows and the top removes for a clean roadster look. I swear it's not just because that's the year I've owned  Also, it's got all the gauges and interior items it needs and none of the ones it doesn't. I prefer the sprite since it is devoid of the chrome strip on the hood. I think Pythias has my twin car. Mine is a bit newer I guess since my VIN ends is HAN8L59710. I don't remember what my other '66 was, but it was within 200 of my current one.
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#476387 - 07/04/08 07:54 AM
Re: My favorite square-body Spridget
[Re: Luke_Healey]
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Jedi Knight
Registered: 08/04/03
Posts: 1331
Loc: Clifton Park, New York
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Those are great looking midgets! A guy I know up here has a 66 restored to concurs condition. It's Old English White and magnificent, I saw it two days ago at a cruise in and my eyes always pop! I love the chrome stripes.
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#476392 - 07/04/08 08:09 AM
Re: My favorite square-body Spridget
[Re: John Moore]
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Yoda
Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 4143
Loc: Utah, USA
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You guys are killing me. I'm trying to figure out how I could make a deal work, but there's just no way. Someone needs to buy it, then trade me for my project... yeah, that'll work... But then I'd have no Bugeye either... I need a bigger garage. And a bigger income. 
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Drew Frink 1959 AH Sprite AN5L27843 -- Tunebug 2007 Triumph Bonneville http://www.drooartz.com
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#476882 - 07/05/08 12:54 PM
Re: My favorite square-body Spridget
[Re: tony barnhill]
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Yoda
Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 4143
Loc: Utah, USA
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I'm still watching, but just recreationally.
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Drew Frink 1959 AH Sprite AN5L27843 -- Tunebug 2007 Triumph Bonneville http://www.drooartz.com
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#476937 - 07/05/08 04:46 PM
Re: My favorite square-body Spridget
[Re: drooartz]
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Jedi Warrior
Registered: 05/24/05
Posts: 652
Loc: GA, USA
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Drew, I put it on my watch list the other day when I first noticed it. I sold a '66 Midget a couple years ago for $3K and it's available again for $4500...after a quite nice restoration that brought the total investment to over $6K. I'm tempted...there are a few things the car needs, the tranny is notchy and the grille is wrong (Sprite...should be a slatted Midget), but those things can be remedied pretty easily. I have to agree, the mid-year Midgets are a favorite of mine...especially since my very first car was a '65. Ray circa 1968 
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