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[jlaird]

How to turn your box sprite or Midget into a bugeye.

https://www.spriteparts.com.au/shop/performance.html#Bugeyebodyandhardwarekit

 

[mightymidget]

what is the world coming to?

 

[livinginthepast]

That sebring bonnet is pretty slick. If I still had my box sprite, I might consider something like that someday, but not with the BE. I would miss it's smile and pop-eyes.

 

[JPSmit]

Nice! Though I'm with Bill, if it came to that, I think I'd go with the Sebring bonnet.

 

[Tullamore]

I would love that Sebring bonnet!

 

[jlaird]

Thought you might enjoy Colins offerings. Stuff comes from down under preaty fast.

 

[vagt6]

I like the SU air filters, $65 (about $56 U.S.). That's good, but shipping might be quite a bit. Haven't seem air filters with the MG logo.

Nice. Anyone have them on their car???

 

[John Moore]

I thought this line was funny...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]The model retains it's style and appeal to mainly a mix of gentlemen and a growing number of younger lasses who have discovered it's retro style. In fact we don't know a single women who is not aroused by the marque nor a married one either.[/QUOTE]

 

[Hap Waldrop]

Just a little bit Jack but not much, Spridgetech (right here in the USA) makes the same fiberglass body parts to turn a square body into a bugeye for alot less, and Dave Craddock is the man when it comes to fiberglass. Alot of their offerings are the same stuff we can get here or the UK at much higher prices, even after the exchange rate. Prices on the Minitor wheels was outragous, and to hear them you would think they are the best wheels , when in fact they are the entry level wheel in that marketplace. Sorry didn't see anything there, I could get better and less expensive here.

 

[jlaird]

I had not seen a fiberglass rear end for a bugeye before. It is so nice that folks can get all the useful parts here, there or anywhere.

 

[Hap Waldrop]

Jack, we live in a fairly small community as far the offerings for our cars, but that community being small is still worldwide. Some parts literaly travel the world to only get back to cusotmer to near where they were made to begin with, I seen this happen way too many times

Funny Story: I got a Brit friend in my car club, he's a good guy, we get along just fine. He was putting the finishing touches on his drop dead gorgous AH 100M, he did a great job on the car alot of hidden performance goodies. One night at a club meeting he brings this trick head gasket in for his 100M to show me, right off the bat I knew what is was, he tells me he got from a company in the UK and it was like $250 plus shipping, he was really proud of it I then had to break the bad news to him, it was Cometic MLS head gakset made in CA. and I told him if he needed another one I could get him one for 89.95

Another example is the uprated rotor buttons and point sets that were made right here in the US, the person who had these uprated parts made offered them directly to a very large LBC parts vendor, they showed no interest, in the meantime he got a rather large order from a a company in the UK, who then turned around and sold a large quanity to the same vendor my friend had tried to sell them in the first place, at thier UK based operation, who then supplied the US location with the same parts. Point, those poor little rotor buttons and points sets had to travel across the big pond twice to get to you, kinda silly and guess who pays for that silliness, you got it


I've also seen folks buy ARP fastners from UK suppliers at way higher prices than they should be paying for a part made here to begin with, lots of goofey stuff like this happens in our hobby.

 

[Trevor Jessie]

It is all about marketing and vendor image.