My next door neighbor is an older retired man, he keeps this thing in the garage 364 days a year. He only drives it to get it inspected and registerd each year. He told me he was getting to the point where he just couldnt get in and out easily. He said it just wasnt fun. Now its on Evil Bay.


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funny thing, if my 914 wasnt at translog, it would be in the background lol

Buy it. You know you want it.

Nice, but not a BugEye

I have always called it a bug eye too! But on Wheeler Dealers, they called it a frog eye! Whatever, it is still a classic!

That's because it's always been known as a Frog Eye in England and a Bug Eye here. VWs were always Beetles in England and Bugs here. Two nations, separated by a common language.

nice, but this car is later than the bug / frog eyed cars. my good friend just purchased a red Bug Eyed AH Sprite three weeks ago, nice project car, super light, no windows (cept front), no outside door handles, no opening trunk, does have the heat option however, less than 1 liter motor.

the later sprites such as this one where much more civilized

Cute little car. I'm a bug eye fan myself. My dad had one when I was a baby

Cool little car. I enjoy British cars - my first car was a TR4 - but I enjoy them even more when they are in someone else's garage.

Nice car, pre-74 as mine is a 74 and has the black grill. I would love to get my hands on a bugeye or Frogeye as the Brits call them.

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FROGEYE SPRITE

I'd settle for a Healey too, not greed just love the design.

Read: leaking oil on their floor, not yours? My dad still has my gdad's 51 MG TD, which will be mine someday.

No, I have German and American cars to fill that role. My 914 is much friendlier for driving on a regular basis: spacious cabin, top system, storage space, fit and finish, handling, on & on. My '54 Merc ragtop is just plain fun and makes people smile...but they both are equal opportunity puddlers.

I just like the Brits because they have a LOT of character and nostalgia, but they also have enough idiosyncracies to make owning one a full time job to keep on the road. (there's a jackstand joke in there somewhere)

But we speak English correctly.

I just love watching Wheeler Dealers because of the different words they have for the same thing.


Bonnet---Hood
Boot---Trunk
Hood---Rag Top (Convertible Top)
Motor---Car
Bright Works---Chrome
Respray----Paint

I am sure there are others I have missed!

...And so much of what they find on their cars is "in good nick". Or, good shape as we would say. Or it's "knackered", in which case you know Edd (the big man) is going to get his hands dirty.

I had Sprites that I autocrossed in the Sixties, Bugeyes through a 1275 MkIV chrome bumper with rollup windows (wow!). You might think you want a Sprite but you don't, not really.

Nice start for a project.

Here's an Alien Project that either needs to be finished or needs to find a new home. Unfortunately it won't be cheap though... I can't believeWe have had this car that long and not finished it.

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=51775

What I enjoyed was that when I saw a couple episodes earlier this week where they came to the US to buy some cars, they started giving both names. What, did their English viewers suddenly forget the "proper" names for things just because it's a Yank car?

Someone might have gotten a bargain. Nice motor.

Spanner = wrench
Diff = rear end
Lorrie = truck
Choc ice = ice cream
Sherbert dab = cab
Apples and pears = stairs
Cream crackered = knackered = wasted = drunk (or wrecked)

Okay, so the last few were cockney.

My buddy has a 67 GT6 which is basically a spitfire coupe/hatchback. I've helped him wrench on it some.

It is a great looking car but it's really 1950s technology. The straight 6 makes a nice noise but is gutless and the thing is downright scary if it his a bump on an onramp or offramp. The side-draft SC carbs are rube goldberg contraptions. I won't comment on the lucas electrics. When I get out of his car and into the 914, the 914 feels much more like a "real car," if you can believe that.

Of course, if he ever sells it I told him to call me because i'd buy it in a second.

Lorry, or Juggernaut is used but you have missed some of the classics, windscreen, gearbox, estate, mole grips, pinking, wing and my fave of all Shooting brake...

I like - Knock you up ......

Bun in the Oven...

No phone call?

Well anyway, I'm taking the Shooting Brake to a roundabout, but my dampers are wasted. I'll probably need a torch to see the leaks, but I can use a mole wrench to stop them. I lost all my nave plates when my tyres took a dump.

Bummer that sold already, I could see my parents tooling around in that around town.

Their Saab just got totaled too...and the payout was the selling price

I always prefered Sprite over 7Up.

Sunshine = Dude?

No, Bloke = Dude


try this


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7YuAKWcAwY...feature=related

Those things aren't really cars. They're toys. Why the DOT ever permitted their importation is beyond me.

Bird

I win.

A spanner also = retard.

Boffin = someone with high levels of knowledge on a particular subject. Like an egghead.

Tele = TV

Pasty = food type thing

For most humans over the age of 12, that point was when it was new!

Maybe he'd consider a trade for a Midget?

Going on Holiday with a Bird for a Fort Night

A pasty is wonderful thing. You can get them in parts of the USA, like Upper Wisconsin & Michigan's UP.

Anorak = geek/nerd or fanboi about something really obscure, like VW-Porsches (hey! aren't they all now VW-Porsches??)

EDIT: Hey Mark - Fortnight is one word =)

Midges = mosquitoes.

Telly, to be accurate, and as an exercise try to find the meanings for


wanker, tosser, throw a wobbly, smeghead (although that will be easy if you watch Red Dwarf), rozzer, and going spare....

I had one of these once. Mine was a '62- possibly the first year for this body style after the bug/frog eye. I think I paid $300 for mine.

Apart from the different look and the opening trunk, it's not much different from the bugeye. That is to say, it is a primitive machine with drum brakes all around (twin leading shoes in front, not effective in reverse), quarter-elliptic sprung live rear axle, lever shocks, and 948cc pushrod cast iron lump making about 45 hp with twin SU carbs. The trans is a 4-speed with non-synchro straight cut first gear that sounds like a siren. The top dismantles and goes in the trunk and it has side curtains instead of windows. Makes a 914 seem like a luxury car. In the immortal words of Monty Python: Run Away!

Buggery was a capitol offense at one point.

If they had continued to build the Bugeye's they would now look like this.




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And cost $25K

neighbor just told me the buyer never paid, never contacted him.

He has a friend doing all the ebay stuff for him, cause he has no idea, and i asked him if he did the second chance offer to the second and 3rd highest bidders and he said he had no idea.


I wished him luck.

Dosnt anybody want to buy another project?
I might get free beer if I can help sell it

Just checked the ebay link but it was taken down. How high di the bidding get?

I think he said 3900.00 but don't quote me, i can ask him. He would take less, he really wants the garage space.

Now that the link is dead I can't remember what year it is. Makes a difference. As long as were still playing chip chip cherio and all that rot, how about posting photos and details about the car. Maybe it's worth a second look.