If you had added suave, debonair, handsome and modest to your description, I'd
think you'd have met me before!!! Otherwise, sounds like you may have had an
after life sighting of Jerry Garcia!
Dr. Doug
An assemblage of 69 MGs
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net On Behalf Of Larry Macy
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 1997 10:46 AM
To: doug russell; MG List
Subject: RE: opinion on new mg now kindred spirit and how we apparently
stand
out in a crowd
Hello??? doug russell
Longish hair and a grey beard?
>What's weird is that I cannot think how this guy knew that the MG belonged
>to
>me. He pulled up well after I did and I was not discussing the car with
>anyone when he did arrive. I was wearing shorts and a tee-shirt and the MG
>logo tattoo on my forehead was covered by my hat. But he knew (or guessed)
>that the car belonged to me! I'm thinking that maybe we're all beginning to
>look funny or something.
>
>Dr. Doug
>An apparently obvious gaggle of 69 MGs regardless of where they are.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net On Behalf Of Jurgen Hartwig
>Sent: Friday, August 15, 1997 11:06 AM
>To: RAY WYGONIK; mgs@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: opinion on new mg
>
>At 11:02 PM 8/14/97 -0500, RAY WYGONIK wrote:
>>
>>It always gives me a chuckle when I am on my bike with my Harley friends
>and we
>>pass other Harleys. 99% wave to their comrades on American "irron". If I
>am
>>lucky, 20% of those same riders wave to me on my rice burner. That attitude
>>is probably the reason I will never own a Harley. Once my B is on the road
>>I'll probably flash my lights at M***a's!
>>
>oh, most indubitably so. i agree here; the only time i get waves from
>anybody else while I'm driving are other fellows in mgs. the rest of the
>populous is out on the streets with goals of getting from point a to point
>b as efficiently and quickly as possible. i figure that if i am going to
>spend a few hours per week in my auto, i might as well have fun or at least
>make it enjoyable. well, that's what i like about mgs besides the other
>characteristics of the mg. you only live once, you know.
>
>the throwaway generation is here and i don't want my mg to be mutated into
>some plastic creation with a huge gas-guzzling engine just out of
>convenience for the new generation. I know that last statement is rather
>selfish. like i said in my last post, the mg has character and is fun from
>every aspect. if chrysler wants to reincarnate the mg, i would have no
>choice but to accept it and hope the designers do a good job(i think they
>would).
>
>sorry for the defense of the old mg; i feel like an old-timer now even
>though i'm only 21
>
>oh, and please disregard the absence of capitalization; my pinky finger was
>lazy
>
>Safety Fast while Old
>Jay
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