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#476300 - 07/03/08 09:40 PM My favorite square-body Spridget
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Yoda

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If I didn't have the Bugeye...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110267283732

I 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... grin
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#476302 - 07/03/08 09:46 PM Re: My favorite square-body Spridget [Re: drooartz]
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That's the year Midget I'm looking for....its just too far away.
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#476310 - 07/03/08 10:05 PM Re: My favorite square-body Spridget [Re: tony barnhill]
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I can be there in an hour and a half, give or take! Let me know! smile
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#476311 - 07/03/08 10:08 PM Re: My favorite square-body Spridget [Re: Silverghost]
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I'm watching it - way too early to bid!

Edit: Wonder how many forms of "2/to/too/two" I can get in 1 sentence? "I'm watching it to see if I can add it to my collection of twenty-two cars but its way too early to bid, plus right now there are only 2 other bids, too few to matter."


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#476325 - 07/03/08 11:06 PM Re: My favorite square-body Spridget [Re: tony barnhill]
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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

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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. smile
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#476346 - 07/04/08 12:20 AM Re: My favorite square-body Spridget [Re: drooartz]
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Loc: Kelso, Washington
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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#476355 - 07/04/08 12:59 AM Re: My favorite square-body Spridget [Re: Pythias]
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Registered: 05/30/07
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Loc: Ames, Iowa, USA
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 wink 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]
John Moore Offline
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Loc: Clifton Park, New York
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

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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. grin
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#476402 - 07/04/08 08:24 AM Re: My favorite square-body Spridget [Re: drooartz]
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Loc: Ames, Iowa, USA
50mpg, right hand drive, 3 feet off the ground? That's the perfect car for a rural mail carrier.
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#476861 - 07/05/08 12:00 PM Re: My favorite square-body Spridget [Re: Luke_Healey]
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Well, its gone over $3,000 & the reserve hasn't been met...I dropped it from "My Watched List"....if I'm gonna buy one I'd probably disassemble it anyway so no reason to bid on a car that's gonna go well over $6,000.
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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

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Loc: Utah, USA
I'm still watching, but just recreationally.
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2007 Triumph Bonneville
2009 Honda Fit Sport
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#476937 - 07/05/08 04:46 PM Re: My favorite square-body Spridget [Re: drooartz]
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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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#477266 - 07/06/08 06:20 PM Re: My favorite square-body Spridget [Re: mccalebr]
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I just had to look....its at $9,000 and counting!
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