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        <title>Something smaller than a Midget!</title>
        <description> Feels powerful when my little Midget can look longer than the car next to it.  The SMART is of course taller, uglier and whole lot less fun.</description>
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            <title>Re: Something smaller than a Midget!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Those are great, Robert. I've always liked the Bantams a lot.<br />
<br />
Going way back in my archives...<br />
<br />
Here are some pics from the studio in those days. I did the green rendering in the background of the first one. We used to do those with airbrushes, now they're all drawn in Photoshop or something similar. You don't get ink all over your clothes anymore.<br />
The second one is a 20 year younger me, sketching in the studio. You can see on the clay model how far I wanted to chop the windscreen- I still want to do that to my bugeye.<br />
The two tape lines on the centerline are to help read the sections in raw clay. Fun days.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>BugeyePaul</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:53:06 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Something smaller than a Midget!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Yep.  Crosley...there is a motorcycle shop here in Middle Tennessee with a Crosley Milk Truck.  I've also seen at least two in salvage yards nearby.  Go back a few years earlier and we have the Bantam...which of course used an Austin engine I believe.  Bantams and Metropolitans--love them all!]]></description>
            <dc:creator>littlecars</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:47:15 -0500</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The original USA micro cars:<br />
<a href="http://kirks-auto.com/1_Crosley_pre_War/Crosley_preWar_index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://kirks-auto.com/1_Crosley_pre_War/Crosley_preWar_index.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.autoweek.com/article/20060130/FREE/60119005" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.autoweek.com/article/20060130/FREE/60119005</a>]]></description>
            <dc:creator>kirks-auto</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:41:45 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Something smaller than a Midget!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Paul, nice to make your acquaintance.  Like your avatar.  I saw a prototype SMART back in the late 90's I think and was all jazzed about it until the new MINI came out.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>littlecars</dc:creator>
            <category>MG Midget Forum</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:28:16 -0500</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Paul, I like THIS better than today's Smart Car.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>btinsley</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:10:05 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Something smaller than a Midget!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I worked a lot on the Smart very early on. Here is a 20 year old sketch from when we used markers- of what I thought it should be. My time growing up with LBCs had a lot of influence on this one. We did build a running speedster version (the yellow one) that was really fun. It had a little more power than the production car, but it cost almost a million dollars(in about 1994) to build so we didn't get to flog it! <br />
Later on, the MCC corp was formed and the final production design was done at their studio in Germany.<br />
I did some renderings later that had a lot of influence on the Smart Crossblade- google it, it was pretty cool, too bad it was never sold here.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>BugeyePaul</dc:creator>
            <category>MG Midget Forum</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:02:36 -0500</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I think it's different too... A different kind of homely.::o]]></description>
            <dc:creator>scoutll</dc:creator>
            <category>MG Midget Forum</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:08:10 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Something smaller than a Midget!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ .....'ell's bells- 'tain't ugly- just different- and cute in its own right.... in cleveland,  i see a few around......and think it would take nerves of steel to deal with drunken tail-gaters that abound here......anyway, 'tis a george jetson car......needs an automatic car repeller affixed to the back hatch....did 007 have one of those to ward off evil-doers....?.....]]></description>
            <dc:creator>woodstock1</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:39:19 -0500</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Feels powerful when my little Midget can look longer than the car next to it.  The SMART is of course taller, uglier and whole lot less fun.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>littlecars</dc:creator>
            <category>MG Midget Forum</category>
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