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[JPSmit]

was with SWMBO at the mall yesterday and went in the Kate Spade (designer clothes, shoes) Anyways, the spring collection shoes models in and out of a lovely green Bugeye! I took a picture, and I think my computer ate it 'cause I have no idea where it went.

Then today, watching TV and the new Old Spice (wolfthorn?) anti-perspirant commercial came on - the hero drive off in an Opel GT.

 

[AN5Sprite]

Don't remember the product but I recently saw a tv commercial that featured a Jensen Healey. Made me go "huh, interesting..."

 

[JPSmit]

BTW, was at the mall, and this time figured out where the computer put the pic.

 

[John Turney]

Probably SWMBO hid it from you. :wink-new:

 

[AN5Sprite]

BTW, was at the mall, and this time figured out where the computer put the pic.View attachment 26317

I recognize that car. It was known as the "Bishop". Factory ordered stage 5 prepped race car.

 

[JPSmit]

I wondered if anyone would recognize it - as it is distinctive! and, wonders, google turned up Bring a Trailer https://bringatrailer.com/2011/04/1...ry-stage-5-tuned-1961-ah-bugeye-sprite-racer/

BTW - what is stage 5? I've never heard of that spec.

and today saw a commercial with a red Karmann Ghia

 

[dougie]

The stage 5 spec is a factory prepared full race motor. It's basically the highest level you could get from BMC.

 

[AN5Sprite]

Fortunately I have an original "Special Tuning" pamphlet. I figured your question JP was a good reason to find it. When I went back to see what it says, I was a little surprised. Tuning condition 5 refers only to a "special tuned exhaust system" that can be used with any of the other tuning conditions, 1-4 and will provide 2-3hp depending on the other condition it's paired with.

The pamphlet I have is AKD1021 and is a first issue, 1958 publication. I wonder if the specs for each condition evolved...?

If you went all in (like the Bishop) and got Tuning Conditions 1 to 5, it looks to me like you got 55hp.

 

[JPSmit]

So, presumably, 5 included 1-4?

 

[AN5Sprite]

So, presumably, 5 included 1-4?

Thats not the way it reads. 5 could be added to conditions 1-4. In theory you could have ordered 1- a little head work and 5 - an exhaust system.

 

[PC]

Don't remember the product but I recently saw a tv commercial that featured a Jensen Healey. Made me go "huh, interesting..."

 

[PC]

...Then today, watching TV and the new Old Spice (wolfthorn?) anti-perspirant commercial came on - the hero drive off in an Opel GT.

 

[AN5Sprite]

That was the one. There's another one that I just saw with a white Jensen Healey.
There's also a soup commercial with a vintage Mini.