My favorite square-body Spridget

[drooartz]

If I didn't have the Bugeye...

https://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110267283732

I love this generation of Spridget, my favorite (especially in Midget form). RHD makes is just right. Pop in my new Hap-built motor and carbs, and good to go. If only I had funding... and room... and patience...

 

[tony barnhill]

That's the year Midget I'm looking for....its just too far away.

 

[Silverghost]

I can be there in an hour and a half, give or take! Let me know!

 

[tony barnhill]

I'm watching it - way too early to bid!

Edit: Wonder how many forms of "2/to/too/two" I can get in 1 sentence? "I'm watching it <span style="text-decoration: underline">to</span> see if I can add it <span style="text-decoration: underline">to</span> my collection of <span style="text-decoration: underline">twenty-two</span> cars but its way <span style="text-decoration: underline">too</span> early <span style="text-decoration: underline">to</span> bid, plus right now there are only <span style="text-decoration: underline">2</span> other bids, <span style="text-decoration: underline">too</span> few to matter."

 

[glemon]

I like the '67 with the full convertible top and 1275 with a better crank for that year only (nitrided? I think), but otherwise looks the same. Have been fortunate enough to have owned two of them. (not that I have anything against the '66, which was my first car, but was a Sprite.

Also like the round wheel arch cars well as the series II Sprite and Series I middget, just because you don't see too many of them anymore.

Greg

 

[drooartz]

I'm watching it as well, but no possibility of bringing it home. One project at a time, that's the rule, and I don't think the seller would take a partially disassembled Bugeye in trade.

 

[Pythias]

Apparently the rarest of the rare. Only one of that body style Spridget at LotO! Removable top like the earlier, wind up windows like the later.

TRUNKS RULE!

 

[Luke_Healey]

I like the 66 because it's got legitimate windows and the top removes for a clean roadster look. I swear it's not just because that's the year I've owned :wink: Also, it's got all the gauges and interior items it needs and none of the ones it doesn't.

I prefer the sprite since it is devoid of the chrome strip on the hood.

I think Pythias has my twin car. Mine is a bit newer I guess since my VIN ends is HAN8L59710.

I don't remember what my other '66 was, but it was within 200 of my current one.

 

[John Moore]

Those are great looking midgets! A guy I know up here has a 66 restored to concurs condition. It's Old English White and magnificent, I saw it two days ago at a cruise in and my eyes always pop! I love the chrome stripes.

 

[drooartz]

You guys are killing me. I'm trying to figure out how I could make a deal work, but there's just no way. Someone needs to buy it, then trade me for my project... yeah, that'll work...

But then I'd have no Bugeye either... I need a bigger garage. And a bigger income.

 

[Luke_Healey]

50mpg, right hand drive, 3 feet off the ground? That's the perfect car for a rural mail carrier.

 

[tony barnhill]

Well, its gone over $3,000 & the reserve hasn't been met...I dropped it from "My Watched List"....if I'm gonna buy one I'd probably disassemble it anyway so no reason to bid on a car that's gonna go well over $6,000.

 

[drooartz]

I'm still watching, but just recreationally.

 

[mccalebr]

Drew, I put it on my watch list the other day when I first noticed it. I sold a '66 Midget a couple years ago for $3K and it's available again for $4500...after a quite nice restoration that brought the total investment to over $6K. I'm tempted...there are a few things the car needs, the tranny is notchy and the grille is wrong (Sprite...should be a slatted Midget), but those things can be remedied pretty easily.

I have to agree, the mid-year Midgets are a favorite of mine...especially since my very first car was a '65.

Ray

circa 1968

 

[tony barnhill]

I just had to look....its at $9,000 and counting!

 

[Luke_Healey]

That's promising. They should have mentioned that you can drive the snot out of it and get better fuel economy than the Prius in the background.

I think the little vintage cars like this are going to rise in value as gas keeps getting more and more expensive.

 

[drooartz]

Good that folks are finding it worth that much. Also good since I truly couldn't afford that much. Hope it finds a good home.