Love this article and the gorgeous frogeye. I came up in Bermuda with the sprites, midgets, spitfires etc. so very pleasant memories for me. The oneness with the car via the steering and handling is what won the day for me with my '67 midget over my later "B"
Very interesting as to that little bird chirp you detected with the tach cable when the car was idling. Good ears and nice video insert for all of us to hear. I must say that if this gem was up for sale, I be headed up to Connecticut in two shakes of lamp's tail. Well done.👍👍 Save the Wave👋
I've only had three spridgets so this may not apply: instead of forcing the top bar out of the windscreen channel, there's a can on each bow half that allows them to collapse, making top setup easy. Less risk of damage to the canvas (or fingertips.)
3 месяца назад
Exactly! Maybe this expert restorer does not know as much as he pretends to.
Very nice David. Mentioned you have been doing this for 15 years and the fact that you’ve accomplished all this in that time is amazing. May I/we ask what you were doing 20 years ago? Thanks, Rich
Lovely car. It seems odd to spent so much money on an alternator that looks like a dynamo, when so many of the other parts are obviously non-standard. The heater trunking should be PVC. The door pockets are wrong, they should be curved. I fitted a perfectly ordinary alternator and converted the tachometer to electronic, all for less than the cost of a new dynamo.
We have sold 348 Bugeyes and I have never seen a worn out tire on a Sprite, only aged-out tires, like these. This particular tire was a hard compound to begin with, and as it has aged it became unusable. With just quarter elliptical springs, you need a soft tire on a Sprite, or you will go around a bumpy turn and loose tire contact and go off the road. More so on any other old car I have owned and/or driven, new tires on Spridgets make a huge difference.
Need to get a remote microphone. Audio is pretty poor. Love this vlog.
3 месяца назад
In 1962 I bought a low mileage 1960 Sprite, it was very difficult to find one. It had many problems due to poor design. After two years I sold it because of the "final straw", which maybe you do not even know about. Instead of using a metal clutch throwout bearing (like American cars had been using for 60 years) it had a carbon block to save a few pence. Had to pull the engine to replace a $7 part which would wear out in another 25,000 miles. No thanks, Sprite went bye-bye.
Mmm. Sorry, yes, it looks nice, but I would much prefer it if it had been restored to original spec, and not ‘improved’… He didn’t seem to understand the sprung tensioners in the roof frame. Fit the front of the roof to the screen first, (and remove it last!) then the rear, then release the springs.
Sorry, but the original rims are way better than what you put on there. I've seen wire wheels too; no thanks. You can get new, same size and design rims, in 2022 in Japan. They have tons of micro vans with dead ringers. Also, changing the exhaust has changed the sound of the car.
