Excellent buy. Saw it sell quickly once it hit BAT. You should have fun with it. Nice that it turned out to be a "known" car thru the Mini family and that it will be race ready via Dean's capable hands. eNJoy!

From the header I thought you were hiring me as shop sweeper.... but that deal is OK too.

Congratulations to the 'partner in life' - a keeper with an eye for value and style like that.

Beauty! ( the car I mean!)

That's a beautiful car and I'm thrilled to take the Unsby car off your hands

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Team Mini Mania has been growing for a number of years and just this past week I could not pass up the opportunity to add another Vintage Bugeye Sprite Race car to the Stable.

And we're  racing our new  acquisition at the Rocky Mountain Vintage Racing charity event!

This 1959 Bugeye was found by a friend of mine on Bring-a-Trailer. The listing reported that the car was on sales on Craigslist in the Denver area.   


While I procrastinated, my partner in life decided that she wanted to buy it for sure! 
Two hours later we made the deal over the phone without ever seeing the car except in pictures.  

We then realized that the owner of the Bugeye is only 30 Minutes from a great mechanic and good friend of ours, Dean Snippenger of Computer Car, Inc. 
A phone call later we found that Dean had actually built the motor in this little jewel and thus knew a lot about the car.

We also then realized that we needed to think about how to get the Bugeye from Colorado to our home in California.  We had planned a couple weeks earlier to race our Unsbee Mini in Colorado at the Vintage Races but had no desire to haul a two car trailer over the Rockies. We made another quick decision- we would leave the Mini at home, pick-up the Bugeye from Dean and race the Bugeye in the Charity event!   Dean, our friend in Denver has had the car for a couple days and with the addition of updated seatbelts and a transponder- it is ready to race! (He is also qualified by RMVR to provide official Tech Inspection that will make the process a lot easier).  Jamie Stiehr, another racing friend of mine that is very involved in the Charity event aided in contact for RMVR that have been very helpful in making this all happen with needed paper-work, etc.

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