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68 Sprite on ebay

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Gerard

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Nice resto. Looks like you could eat off the engine...and that's quite a feat with these cars!
 
Looks as if it's being properly respected by the bidder's, Gerard! Nice car!!

Kurt.
 
It's great to see a Square Sprite generating the kind of bidding that this one is. Like the video with the exhaust note...a good "go by" for me for my own Mark IV.
 
nomad said:
Looks as if it's being properly respected by the bidder's, Gerard! Nice car!!

Kurt.
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Yep, thanks Kurt. Still a steal in my opinion, and have seen many that spend a great deal more and not have half the car this is. The seats were recently added and are all new leather and everything else right down to the seat frames, which were cleaned up and repainted as well. Materials alone are close to 2k. Someone is going to get a great deal, even at that price.

I recently had a local Midget owner come over in his car to check out the 5 speed kit. I had seen it pictured on another forum, and it appeared pretty decent. After seeing it in person, I was stunned at what a POS it actually was. The paint was worse than you could possibly imagine. There was lots of very heavy orange peel, and it had several runs that resembled catsup squirted for length of about 10 inches, then allowed to dry in the hot sun. Paint cracking and bondo cracked and popping out here and there. There were rust bubbles in every typical location, and in others you wouldn't expect. Typical filthy engine bay. It had a bad gearbox, and a tired engine that needs rebuilding. His plan is to rebuild the engine and add a 5 speed. It's tarted up with a set of VTO's, which about the only thing nice on the car. His investment to get the car mechanically in order thus far, plus the purchase price of $4500, has him at $11,000, and he still has the engine and gearbox to do, plus some other mechanical deficiencies. (never mind the paint and bodywork). I could go on and on, but I would be very generous to categorize the car as a "50 footer". Unfortunately, I see this all the time...
 
Agree that the car is probably under priced for what it would cost to duplicate but us guys that like to fool with these car's really can't expect to make a profit. We do it because we like the car's and as I tell my wife regularly there are more expensive hobbies.

Priced a new Harley lately??!!!

Kurt.
 
nomad said:
Agree that the car is probably under priced for what it would cost to duplicate but us guys that like to fool with these car's really can't expect to make a profit. We do it because we like the car's and as I tell my wife regularly there are more expensive hobbies.

Priced a new Harley lately??!!!

Kurt.
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Funny you mention Harley... you'd be surprised how many people have emailed wanting to swap their Harley for this car.
 
Gerard said:
Funny you mention Harley... you'd be surprised how many people have emailed wanting to swap their Harley for this car.
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Coming to their sense's apparently!!

Kurt.
 
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