Mog 97 was in the UK last weekend. If no-one else posts a report I will
later this week, but it would take too long now (and my company expects
some work from me).
UK waving practice is (more or less) wave at those who are likely to wave
back.
Older cars (up to early 1960s) wave back whether open or saloon or whatever
with few exceptions so they get a wave.
MGBs don't wave (well hardy ever) so they don't get waved at.
Hi tech older cars (GT-40 et al) don't wave so....
Similarly newer sports cars (MGF, Mazda, Jaguar, McLaren etc and etc ) don't
wave and so....
Similar position with bikes, old upright bikes wave. Modern bikes and
racers don't wave, probably because they are trying to stay on the bike
while it is trying to pull their arms off.
One other thing you get more waves in a 4 seater when the car is fully
loaded. and lots of grins from passers by, especially with a 6 foot plus 15
year old in the back.
Dave Vodden
1992 Plus 4 4 seater
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From: morgans-owner
To: 'morgans@Autox.Team.Net'; 'William Zehring'
Subject: RE: waving
Date: Monday 28 July 1997 11:35
Will,
I haven't driven my +4 for some time now, and I'd almost forgotten the
neat custom of waving. Now that low-slung, open-cockpit cars are
becoming scarcer, maybe the best thing is to wave at all low-slung, open
cockpit cars, whether or not they initiate the greeting. The last thing
we want is to be considered as snobs. Waving, to paraphrase a comment
supposedly made by Mark Twain on honesty, "will gratify some and
astonish the rest."
As to the motorcyclists who waved at you, maybe they know that Morgans
used to be (and some still are) propelled by Matchless Twins and JAPs.
However, initiating waving at a one-armed motorcyclist is probably not a
good idea.
Chuck
>
>It was a real pleasure for me to wrap this job up and take the old dear out
>for a test drive. All is well. Though my front end shimmy is not
>completely eradicated, it is diminished by a great deal, such that cruising
>in the 50-65 mph range doesn't rattle my eyeballs like it did before.
>Those kingpins NEEDED attention. I now think I understand the workings of
>the mog front end.
>
>Two things I noticed that I'd appreciate comment on:
>--the steering seems a tad stiffer after reassembly
>--the car doesn't easily return to straight ahead forward motion after a
>turn, like it used to.
>
>I wonder if both of these observations aren't related and if I need to
>check toe in (what ever that is).
>
>Regardless, as the song goes, I'm on the road again. Next stop: that leak
>in the steering box. Heck, I was feeling so good about my handy work that
>I even waived at a guy in a TD!
>
>Will Zehring
>
>p.s. The list has been shockingly quiet this past few weeks, and as Bob N.
>is want to point out, I DO suffer withdrawals. Therefore, I wish to
>discuss the following: I noticed something else on my test drive having to
>do with the hierarchy of waving. This is a topic that poses an seemingly
>endless number of puzzles to me. Who deigns to wave to whom? I've spoken
>at length on the wave relationship between MG, Jag, Mog, and TR owners and
>won't go into it here. I was surprised to discover motorcyclists will wave
>at Mog drivers. I've never been waved at by a motorcycle driver when in
>any other lbc, but I have *three* times now in the Mog. Once I even
>received a hearty 'thumbs up!' from a fellow on a freeway in Deeeeetroit.
>Can someone suggest why? As to that TD, what can I say? I was filled with
>generosity, what with my newly shimmyless Mog and the other fellow only has
>a TD, after all, and... well... what the heck!
>
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