In the short time I had it, it was an absolutel blast. Topped out on the
Ohio Turnpike @ an indicated 140mph. Unfortunately I got it in May and it
was stolen and parted out in early Sept.
If you ever saw a female driving one you had to be impressed with no power
steering a clutch pedal that really required alot of effort to depress.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Davis" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: PESO - Bugeye
You obviously have a thing for sweet iron. The Shelby GT had to be a sweet
ride.
Jack
--- On Fri, 1/2/09, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Ken Waller <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PESO - Bugeye
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 2:21 PM
Thanks Jack
I don't know about well known, but back then there were
very few I ever saw
on the streets.
I sold it upon graduation and bought a 1966 Shelby GT 350.
The Shelby could
go faster in second gear than the Sprite in fourth !
Many time I've wished I kept the Sprite. If I recall
correctly I bought it
for $700 and sold it for $550.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Davis" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PESO - Bugeye
> Good looking machine, Ken. I'll bet that car was
well known in New Jersey.
> Wouldn't it be "neat" (in the '66
vernacular) to have now?
>
> Jack
>
>
> --- On Fri, 1/2/09, Ken Waller
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Ken Waller <[email protected]>
>> Subject: PESO - Bugeye
>> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List"
<[email protected]>
>> Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 11:52 AM
>> Check out
>>
http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/offwallphoto/id2.html
>>
>> These two images are not posted for any of their
>> photographic content but for the memories.
>> I came across these two slides taken over 42 years
ago -
>> probably on a Voightlander folder or a Zeiss Ikon
Contessa.
>> I was surprised by the original slide format -
27mm square.
>> Film was Kodak Kodachrome. The years or the film
have given
>> these image an almost monochrome appearance.
Scanned on my
>> Nikon Super Coolscan 4000ED.
>>
>> The images are of a 59 Austin Healy Sprite
(Bugeye) that
>> was my first real car. Got me thru college with
only regular
>> oil/filter changes, a tune up or two and a set of
Michelin
>> radial tires.
>
>
>>
>> The most fun for the buck in a car that I've
ever had.
>>
>> Comments welcomed
>>
>> Kenneth Waller
>> http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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