Come on, Skip, I told you not to believe everything Al Moss told
you........
Lawrie
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> From: Skip Kelsey <kelsey@value.net>
> To: TATERRY@aol.com; mgs@autox.team.net;
British-Cars-Pre-War@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Remembering Ray Gibbons
> Date: Monday, February 16, 1998 3:47 PM
>
> Terry:
>
> This brings to mind my 48 Y type. It has a black painted engine. This was
> done at the factory in memory of the death of Cecil Kimber's mother's
dentist.
>
> Hows that for a bit of trivia!!!!!!!
>
> SKip..................At 06:43 PM 2/16/98 EST, TATERRY@aol.com wrote:
> >Lest we forget our departed comrade and lists humorist....one from the
> >archives:
> >
> >Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
> >
> >> On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Rick Brodeur wrote:
> >>
> >> > We are restoring a 1950 MGTD which has a grey painted frame. The
current
> >> > owner has had the car since 1958 and this is its first complete tear
down
> >> > while he has owned it. All references I can find indicate that all
> frames
> >> > were painted black. The paint seems to be original. Does anyone
have
> any
> >> > additional info? I appreciate any help.
> >>
> >> The factory probably ran out of black that day, so someone grabbed a
> >> can a gray paint just in order to meet the day's quota. They were not
> >> really concerned with 'originality' in the factory.
> >>
> >> Dirk
> >
> >If you managed a factory making cars you thought one day would be
> >classics, it would be one hell of a lot of fun to play little tricks on
> >future concours restorers.
> >
> >I imagine this conversation between the shop foreman and his workers:
> >
> >"Boys, I think Cecil's taken leave of 'is senses. 'e says we're to
paint
> >all the frames light grey this week, greenish grey next week, then
change
> >back to black. 'e's the boss, so paint them grey. And I asked 'im what
> >yer wanted to know, and get this: 'e says 'MOWOG' don't mean any damn
thing
> >at all! When I left, 'e was laughin' 'is arse off!"
> >
> > Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics.
> >
> >
> >
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