I must say when I first saw the car in pink I had my reservations but after you explained the story of Donna I think it's a great idea.

That's a great story. I love the paint, knowing what it's about. And, she runs. Can't kill those old Sprites.

Fantastic story about Donna Mae Mims. I learned something new! I think that's a worthy tribute. 😊 Great job as usual!

Cars from my era, worked on many of these in the late 60's. Can still remember the part number for the points. They were Lucas L19 or L19V (V was for "ventilated" which was just a hole in the middle of the contacts). Great to see people keeping these old cars alive.

Had no knowledge of this lady so this was educational for me . Not sure about the funeral Corvette though.😨😨 She obviously had a sense of humour . I met Sir Stirling a few years ago and he seemed to be more interested I my wife than me , he did love the ladies! As you've gone this far you may as well make it as accurate as you can . I think Donna Mae would love that . You certainly impress me with your passion and knowledge of not only the frogeyes but all of your collection. Thanks Steve.

@hangmonysreylen8332

3 жыл бұрын

Can In ou .

The old sports cars of this era were great , kids could learn some mechanical and basic engineering skills while having fun. Another entertaining video, so thanks .

Nice to hear it fire up Steve, I love that old 'A' series BMC engine, such a great little workhorse.

Your knowledge of these primitive cars is very impressive. I rewired a 69 MGB and thought I was a God, nope rookie at best. You rescuing these old beauties is amazing. How did someone so young learn all of this? I am 71 and I thought I was a gear head, hardly. My 74 TR6 is still my favorite ride and I wish I knew these old classics half as well as you. My respect sir!!

That PINK paint-job has transformed the bug-eye. - I'd love to follow it's further progress please.

Nice tribute. Very envious on your haul of Bugeyes. In my part of the world, these cars would be depressingly rusty.

Me and my brother ran a Bugeye in H/P back in the 80's. a ton of fun and great memories!

Seeing you do the work on these cars is very educational and historical, please keep showing the "how to's of these rebuilds

Donna Mae history that needs to be remembered. Thanks for doing that for us all. I never knew of the pink bugeye racer before. There was an Earl's Court 100-4 painted hot pink and black I remember. Another great video.

The car reminds me of 'The Compact Pussycat' as driven by Penelope Pitstop. :^)

Great video. Haven't heard Donna Mae Mims name in so long!

Thanks for the history lesson! I always learn something interesting and useful from your videos.

Very nice tribute and brilliant diagnosis.

You are the sprite whisperer! Loved the story and the restoration. I had a 1965 Austin Healey sprite that was my first car. It was a beautiful light blue metallic, originally the flat blue color I could see in the trunk and engine area. I loved that car, but boy was I in over my head being a broke teenager. I bought it for $1500 in 1979. I sold it after 3 years as I couldn't afford to keep fixing it as it was my only transportation and nobody knew how to fix it and were always messing it up because of the positive ground. It drove well, but simple repairs like brakes, wiper motors, leaf springs, little things were hard to have fixed properly. I miss that car. Thanks for restoring them so we can appreciate them today! Love those cars!

Amazing that your 6 Sprites have such solid bodywork. There's another great video of an older gentleman's 4-year restoration of a bug-eye Sprite (an hour and a half long!), but the body he started with was a mass of rust. He basically had to replace the entire body, one welded piece at a time.

More British Iron!! Thanks and keep doing the how to’s as I own a Bugeye as well! Thanks!!

the pink looks amazing

Yeh I’d love to see see more o this one😊

Before I even got my first car I helped my dad on his We often went through all the same process as you did on cars of the same BMC era I miss it on today’s cars😊

I was in an automotive Explorer Boy Scout group in Savanah GA back in 1966. At some point, we got an invitation to be the pit crew for Donna Mae Mimms when she was driving her Yenko Stinger. I don't remember much about the race which I think was a week or two after the Daytona 24 Hour. There might have been a Porsche Carrera 6 at the race. And for one of the races, Peter Gregg might have driven a Fiat 124 Station Wagon.

Love it. Great job. And a great legacy to honor and a great way to honor it.

A fantastic tribute!!!

These videos are the dessert of youtube. Thank you very much

Love the tribute and the paint job! I vote for white under the hood. Really enjoying you channel. The barn find XJ6 got me here.

Your an old school mechanic, not many could work like you.👍

Nice tribute car to an amazing woman. 👍

Really cool to let it rep that part of history !

This takes me back to my youth, I'm 74 now but when I was a teen I cut my mechanical teeth on frog eye sprites, healys and mini coopers. Those were real cars back then

I really enjoy your videos. Well paced, informative and fun. Keep doing the British cars!

Keep them coming Steve! 🇨🇦👍

Great video and tribute Steve. I knew a similar person here in Los Angeles that raced club Alfa Romeos in the 1960s - the 1990s, Phyllis Gaylord.

more on the Mims car please - and the rest of the barn six

What an awesome idea. To build a car honoring D.M.M. and the telling of her story. Thank you for doing that for a sport dominated by male masculinity and their stories. Cheers!

Good Job Steve

I like your enthusiasm and attitude to these old cars. Looks a good paint job.

Great channel love it and like watching your work and the way you explain it 👍

Yes that is a cool car

Steve, I like the pink! I think the seats are from a Lotus Elan, series 1 or 2. Please work on the Morris, I need encouragement!

Neat car, neat story!

I had one in the mid '60s. Already past its best before date as it had lived by the seaside. But it was easy and cheap to work on and I loved it. Finally the floor rusted out and that was it.

Thanks for highlighting women’s history 2020 is the year of the woman

Cool tribute. I'm guessing that Donna May was the inspiration for Penelope Pitstop too. LovE it.

@ThisWeekWithCars

3 жыл бұрын

Penelope Pitstop was inspired by Natalie Wood as Maggie DuBois in the movie The Great Race.

@grayfool

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThisWeekWithCars possibly. Still love the Sprite though.

Donna Mae bought the Sprite from Dr. Jonas Salk of polio vaccine fame.

GOOD. ON. YOU!!! For the tribute in particular, for your channel overall!

That motor sounds great... !! Vvrroomm!!

I like the knowledge you have about the old cars, very interesting. How many cars do you have in your collection?

Yer gonna get noticed in that one, for def!

Bloody good reason to paint it pink, good call.

I enjoyed your video, keep going.

Barbie wants her car back!

Keep the videos coming on these ,how about one in a nice british racing green paint job? BTW have you done any further work on the blue Jag?

You use a torch a lot more than I do

Great job. Hope you get it drivable by October for breast cancer awareness month....then drive it around town and stop at local events.

@ThisWeekWithCars

3 жыл бұрын

Neat idea!

It’s a three minute switch to convert from positive ground to negative ground when you have a generator, so without a generator why not just make it negative ground when you install the battery?

Donna Mae Mims is from my area, Pittsburgh! Supposedly her 59 Sprite belonged to Dr. Jonas Salk, the creator of the Polio vaccine (here in Pittsburgh as well). So do you do all of your own paint and body work?

enjoyed it :-)

nice

GAGG IM SICK

i wish i could nip down to ur shop so you can have a look at my 998 mini clubman that has issues with driving, but im on the other side of the world xD

Oh! You mean it’s not Penelope Pitstop’s car!?

i started on british m cycles had a lots of problems with dynamo s until a old gentleman at night (no lights)stopped to check whats the problem young man no power will have to by a new one old man just take it off when you get home then with a battery reenergises the fild coils by rotating the dynamo theres a arrow on the bynamo. bloody hell it worked no more bark night s just saying uk citizen old 75

Delivered to Racing Point. That does not look like a Mercedes!

Don't by any chance happen to have in your collection anything as that may have been raced by Denise McCluggage?

@ThisWeekWithCars

3 жыл бұрын

No but I did meet her with Stirling Moss once!

@roguedalek900

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThisWeekWithCars my dad eventually raced the 60 mini I came home in. We had 6 all total . I learned to drive in a Morris Minor. Dad had a big Healey courting mom and mom eventually had a 72 Plymouth Cricket. (Dads buddy bought the Sebring Sprite back up engine BTW and dad put that cam in the Mini) any way dad got to watch at different times Ms. Mims and Ms. McCluggage . I would of liked to have met Denise . I was fan of hers and have read a lot as well as subbing to AutoWeek when she was publishing it. Did you know she was married to actor Micheal Conrad who was the roll call Sgt on Hill St Blues?

Show me one with 180 or more HP!

Do you have an Instagram

Steve, you spent all that money on a paint job, then decided to see if the car runs?????. DAVID

@ThisWeekWithCars

Жыл бұрын

Doesn’t matter if it runs that’s easy to fix.

Donna's Sprite was a different shade of pink....

Every kid’s first car should be an old British roadster. Tip to kid: don’t sell your bicycle.

🤢🤮Pink. !!!

Can watch Finigan and freiberger if I wanted to be exposed to corporate marketing vomit. "Let me know in comments what you want me to do". Right. Know your busy but gets old with no updates. Take marketing in school? Unsubscribed. Best of luck with your business model.

@2H80vids

3 жыл бұрын

wtf? What does this even mean?

Gee, I learn something new every time I watch one of these. I never cleaned a spark plug with a torch, and now I know it is a thing.