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PSST!!! Brian! Find a Lotus Elan...
 
I always fancied a 7 ( he said, knowing nothing about them), but I'm afraid if there is another car it will need to be another real basket case. Or a barn find I run across myself. But...on the other side, if it's the right group of kids it will take on a life of its own.

Brian
https://www.teamsprite.com
 
The 7 is one of my all-time favorites too! After a BE it would be an easy, smooth restoration. I would find that a hard one to part with at the end though, as I'm sure Mr. Toad must have been also. If you want to do a BE again, check the ebay thread I posted the other day in the Spridgets forum, it might be worth a chat with the executor of that estate. If you picked up the whole batch, you would have enough resources for up-coming classes through to your retirement, hehe!!

PS Just checked your site and could not find the link to your "Fiddlesticks"!! Did you remove the link?
 
That HAS to be a typo or he is the worlds greatest optimist Brian!! I think your record is safe for a bit!!

If that is what he really wants, imagine the record and pedigree of THAT car, hehehe!!! It must be put together with nothing but exotic metals!!
 
Oh, BTW the bid is for a BE, but it also comes with its own house. A very large, plush house in the English countryside.
Still too much.
 
And that folks is prob not a bad price for the house and 3 acres etc etc. Prices are awful in England. I have no idea how those folks manage.
 
I didn't read that far /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gif
 
tell me about it... When my late mother passed on I sold her house in a pleasant suburb of Oxford, about 2 miles from the Cowley factory where Spridget bodies were built, and the MINI is still built to this day.

The house was under 1000 sq ft and sat on less that 1/10 of an acre. It sold for slightly less than I paid for my house in Raleigh, nearly 4 times the square footage and on 2/3 of an acre.
 
The girls can tell their grandchildren (assuming any boys ever get past me) that in the year 2007 their car manufacturing endeavors put them ahead of Ford by 12.7 billion dollars. Hopefully the kids won't ask: "What is a Ford."

Brian
https://www.teamsprite.com
 
<Super!! brian, will your next project introduce us to a new crew, or will the "veterans" try it again? Or is it too soon to ask?

This is the one question I dodged throughout the RM preview, and, in case you haven’t noticed, on these sites as well. The fact is, I tackled this project, pretty much on my own. This is a small school, in a low-income area, and there was no budget, salary or otherwise, for this “wild” of a project. I knew if it were to fly (on school time) it would be on my clock, on my Visa card, and with my tools. It was a great idea, asked for by the girls, and I felt it was worthwhile, as I’ve mentioned I’ve taught several of these girls since fifth grade. Everything else fell into place, the car, you all; it was clearly a good thing. People like Kent White (The Tin Man) and Nick Conklin donated numerous hours to make it all work.

So we had an official class, held during school hours, and recognized for credits, I was just unsalaried for those eighteen months. And, for the last term (Sept through December), it was only the three younger girls and myself working after school and on the occasional weekend. Two of the college girls helped over Christmas, and Nick put in numerous hours to finish it by the January sale date

I am wrestling with the idea of another car. The first call home from Bailey (Humboldt College) after the auction, revolved around doing another car, starting this summer, and Gaurja, our student from India, has brought it up several times. If I can put a small core group together, and the right car shows up…….we’ll see, if not, maybe something entirely different. In the mean time, I need to bring in a little green.

Brian
 
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