No, i am not going to look.

[JPSmit]

Really.

https://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-classic-cars-1960-bugeye-sprite-bodies-W0QQAdIdZ512005109

 

[weewillie]

no, no, no, I want to live a bit longer

 

[apbos]

Scarborough, ON
Sat. Afternoon
Sunny with a chance of AH Mk1 Sprites by noon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

24°C
Feels like 26
P.O.P: 10%
Wind W 15 km/h
Wind gust -
Humidity 53%

One of you will be there before 12

 

[JPSmit]

Won't be me! ( of course I am in DC :laugh: )

 

[Guest]

Nothing but headache to be found there.

 

[Jim_Gruber]

So JP what's the bonnet look like? I don't want to do that 900 mile round trip again.

 

[Guest]

So JP what's the bonnet look like? I don't want to do that 900 mile round trip again.

See the edge of the rust hole on the left? How you think the underside looks?

 

[Jim_Gruber]

Kelly, likely not much better. In the fall I may be able to acquire a BE parts car that gas some issues like last titled in'78. Bonnet is surface rusty and rear patch panels needed on rear quarters but not near the repair issues I need to do to Bugsy's bonnet. Started chasing this BE in SW Ohio close to 3 years ago. Price will be very reasonable.

 

[JPSmit]

So JP what's the bonnet look like? I don't want to do that 900 mile round trip again.

Did you want me to go look Jim? I really don't plan to go after this, but, I can look for someone else - perhaps you could ask the seller for pics and see from there.

cheers
JP

 

[Jim_Gruber]

JP no need to look. The guy who is the holder of a BE I've been chasing for 3 years called me yesterday afternoon and said come pick it up. He stored as a favor 15 years ago for a friend and it is an abandoned project. Car last titles in 1978, broke, and has been sitting since. Lots of surface rust bonnet needs new rear quarters but an easy fix with patch panels that O already did on Bugsy I. This will be much easier than fixing the bonnet that came with Bugsy II. Car is unmolested but good sized dent in trunk,needs A posts both sides and outer rockers. Really dirty and crummy now but intact seats, dash, instruments, etc. A parts car. working on how to get from point A to B in the next few weeks. NowI need to tell Colleen I'm dragging home a car even worse looking than Bugsy II. The next battle is ahead.

 

[JPSmit]

Congrats - and, good luck.

 

[Guest]

NowI need to tell Colleen I'm dragging home a car even worse looking than Bugsy II. The next battle is ahead.

No no no, you're going about it all wrong, just drag the thing home.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission....:wink:

 

[Jim_Gruber]

My better half and I have come to an agreement on me dragging home "The Sitter" as Gerald nicknamed it. I had it all arranged for the owner to deliver to my driveway about 45 minutes away from his house. Wife insisted I need to go down there and get underneath to verify if this BE is not all rusted underneath and can be salvaged. I am meeting with nephew of the guy who originally bought this car some 40 years ago and will be working with him to obtain a Bill of Sale and he has promised to help me out in getting a title from the actual owner who no resides someplace in Colorado. OK this is getting more towards being a legal transfer from one owner to another. I have learned as is thought that although this BE has been stored inside a nice hangar for the past 15 years, prior to that it it was in a barn over a dirt floor. The BE had sunk to its floorpan in mud and needed to be dug out of the mud in order to move to it's present storage space. Last titled in 1978. It broke and got put into storage. It is all original and unmolested on the interior. I will be able to reuse seats, full dash with all instrumentation and switches, steering wheel, lights, lamps and lenses, cockpit surround, top bows. Oh yeah and most important I believe the bonnet is fixable. Lots of surface rust from the bottom up and it needs rear quarter patch panel on both sides. I truly believe I can make this bonnet work on Bugsy II much easier than the one I've got already. I'll post some pics and get opinion from others. I'm supposed to meet at 8:30 Saturday morning to close this deal. Will drag home about 2 weeks later.