Re: [MBZ] Floyd Needs This

[Floyd Thursby via Mercedes]

I wonder if I know this guy, or know of him.  I vaguely recall seeing 
this car around somewhere, sometime.


The kid a coupla doors down from us when I was maybe 12 or so had one, a 
total turd he bought for a coupla $hundred if I recall. Rusty, beat up, 
no top, seats almost non-existent, 4 mismatched bald tires, but it would 
more or less run.  Rode in it a coupla times, it was lots of fun, about 
the size of a go-kart.  I could fit in it when I was 12. mostly.  One 
day I was riding my bike by it and I see the magic smoke billowing out 
from under the hood (bonnet).  I run up to the house and pound on the 
door, tell him his car is on fire, he comes running out and pops open 
the hood and starts pulling wires out.  Some wires shorted out or 
something, and insulation was burning off.  Total rats nest of bodged-up 
wiring.  He spent the next coupla days rewiring it with whatever random 
wire he could find to get it to run and then I think he sold it right 
away and got something else.  I think these things are kinda fun but 
were pretty much turds at birth.


--FT

On 4/28/20 8:24 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:

And it’s already in his neighborhood, too!

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1961-austin-healey-bug-eye-sprite-14/?utm_source=dm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-04-28
 


I love bug-eyed Sprites. They look happy.

-D

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[MBZ] Floyd Needs This

[Dan Penoff via Mercedes]

And it’s already in his neighborhood, too!

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1961-austin-healey-bug-eye-sprite-14/?utm_source=dm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-04-28
 


I love bug-eyed Sprites. They look happy.

-D

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