Heh heh, pretty funny description, Albert. Not that anyone who smokes in a
car ever uses the ashtray that I've seen. They generally flick it out the
window or the sunroof so the hot ashes can fly into the face, eyes and hair
of the person following them in an MG (this happened to me yesterday, as a
matter of fact -- the young lady couldn't understand why I was yellling at
her). Isn't ejecting burning material onto a highway against the law?
on 6/30/04 4:01 PM, Aeseeyou@aol.com at Aeseeyou@aol.com wrote:
> Hi People,
> I just HAD to get in on this one. I don't know how many of you have ever
> tried to smoke a cigarette when you're trying to drive, but believe me it's
> not
> one of lifes easiest proceedures. It's right up there next to juggling 3
> oranges, 2 apples and a chain saw(thats running!) First you've got to light
> the darn
> cancer stick, then you have to try to get a puff or two in before the need to
> shift comes up. If you had any modicum of success and were lucky enough to
> have actually managed to pull a couple of drags out of the cigarette before
> you
> burned your eyes with red hot ashes, you must now try to flick the remaining
> ash into that example of British engineering acumen, the MGB ashtray. Which is
> located directly behind the gear shift. No, I take that back...it's located
> directly behind and about halfway up from where the gearshift rests in 4th
> gear.
> That way you can grab the smoldering cigarette out of the MGB's fab ashtray
> bringing the remains up to your lips take a couple of drags, cough a couple of
> times before returning the remains of the cigarette back into the ingenious
> little MGB ashtray, making sure that the spring loaded lid (which can be sharp
> so
> don't cut yourself!) doesn't decide to snap shut, guillotining the poor half
> finished cigarette into two-quarter sized cigarettes. Then before you have
> time to mourn the demise of the illfated Marlboro or whatever you're poisoning
> yourself with...it's time to shift into third, and then second so that the
> engine can help your car come to a stop. Now of course you can shift into
> first and
> once traffic allows proceed on your way. Until you start to smell something
> burning......Ooops! I guess when the ashtray lid came down it must of thrown
> the still burning cigarette onto the carpet...except that it landed on the
> other
> side of the transmission tunnel, where you can't reach it unless you stop the
> MG and go around to the passenger side and try to put it out. Remember the
> next time the urge to light one up hit's you, make sure that you're not
> driving...
> Albert C. Escalante...1978 MGB
> The Central Coast British Car Club (CA)
> 14th Annual British Car Show
> July 18th, 2004 9:00am-3:00pm
> Ventura, CA (info at www.ccbcc.org )
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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