Vintage Log

[histerical]

A while ago, a friend gave me a binder that he got with a Bugeye he was going to race. Unfortunately, he was too big for the little car, and sold it. I don't know the ensuing history. The binder appears to hold the log for some Sprite, and contains some receipts from 60's through the 70's for work and parts to prep it for racing, detailed descriptions and notes of set-ups both before and after races, and many pages of tech sheets with specific diagrams and measurements for porting, cams, flywheels, etc. Lots of trial (and error) stuff. Somewhere around 60 pages collected for what looks to have been ( or still is) an East coast car. I do not need all this information, so I figure someone out there could use it. It's also quite a piece of history. I haven't yet found any body numbers yet, but I'll look through it more carefully. So, here's the plug: I don't know what it might be worth so it's on the block.
E-bay Item # 280318243857.
If anyone's interested, I can give the names of apparent owners of this Sprite in the case that someone knew, or maybe knows, them.
Bill

 

[histerical]

Here are the names I have found. Looks like later owners as many of the older pages are mid-late 60's.

Dr, Ray Gage Ft. Lauderdale 3/70
Mel Lipson Mass 4/73
John Gardell Acton, Mass 12/73
Tom Zabel Burlington Ct 5/78

no specific car numbers, but one older page says" Sprite MK I" on it

 

[Silverghost]

It appears Thomas Zabel still lives in Vermont:

www.mylife.com/c-2515428069

There is a John Gardell who teaches at a communtiy college in Ma:

https://www.massasoit.mass.edu/admin_depts/hum_res/directory/details.cfm?dID=136

And Dr. Gage:

1973 ARRC Entry List
Race 6: Formula C
#29 Ray Gage II, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Car = Cooper Jr.-BMC, Div.= 2-SE