- 61. Missouri Endurance Rally 2000 (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:26:19 EST
- The Missouri Endurance Rally is on for March 18-19, 2000. Once again sponsored by the MG Club of St. Louis. The rally will run in the 24 hour format used last year and will have timed stages and shor
- /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01305.html (7,602 bytes)
- 62. Re: Why Unibody (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:30:19 EST
- <<< I believe the first MG sedan with unibody construction was the MG ZA Magnette (1955 model), and the first MG sports car with unibody construction was the MGB (late 1962).>>> And when Regis arches
- /html/mgs/1999-12/msg01000.html (7,232 bytes)
- 63. More Re: Why Unibody (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:43:22 EST
- Relevant to the discussion of the monocoque MGs is the following from an article in "MGB Driver" last summer written by Peter Thornley in remembrance of his father John Thornley, the General Manager
- /html/mgs/1999-12/msg01045.html (8,570 bytes)
- 64. Title/Plates Cost (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:59:33 EST
- Yesterday I went to the Illinois Secretary of State's Office (which in most other states I have resided in would be called the Department of Motor Vehicles) to change the title of a '65 Midget I boug
- /html/mgs/1999-12/msg01182.html (7,983 bytes)
- 65. Re: NAMGBR Representation (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:20:10 EST
- As convention coordinators for NAMGBR, we have been surprised by the recent postings regarding the Register. We are well aware of the effort that has been made by the Register to locate its Annual Co
- /html/mgs/1999-11/msg00747.html (8,502 bytes)
- 66. End of One Era - On to the Next (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 23:55:00 EST
- Took my '79 Midget (Growler) out this morning for an early morning run to run the gas tank low and officially ended it's season and started working on draining everything to pull the engine on Sunday
- /html/mgs/1999-11/msg01179.html (8,658 bytes)
- 67. Overheating 1500 Midget (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:12:56 EDT
- My '79 1500 Midget has had problems lately with sudden overheating and burping coolant into the overflow tank. Background - About 98000 miles on the car. Radiator was recored 2 years ago. Water pump
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00162.html (8,829 bytes)
- 68. MG History Note (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:06:48 EDT
- I meant to post this 10 days ago but didn't get to it. 40 years ago, on October 2, 1959, Phil Hill set the record for the fastest MG ever in EX 181 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Mr. Hill's sp
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00449.html (6,625 bytes)
- 69. MG Neon Sign (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:31:42 EDT
- In addition to my MG obsession, I have collected neon beer signs for some time. Last year I saw a news item on the MG Enthusiast website that combined these two avocations - a gentleman in England, I
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00604.html (7,714 bytes)
- 70. Late MGB Fuel Lines (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 09:57:28 EDT
- In talking to Ken Smith at Moss Motors the other day, he mentioned that I should put a reminder to owners of late MGBs in 'MGB Driver' - check your fuel lines. The late cars (I think it was from '77,
- /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00045.html (7,288 bytes)
- 71. MGs on Speedvision (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:09:47 EDT
- Who saw the back to back 'Legends of Motorsport' programs last night on Speedvision devoted to old MG promotional newsreels? One was on Goldie Gardner and EX179 in 1951 at Bonneville, one on the EX18
- /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00505.html (7,334 bytes)
- 72. Re: Car Show Judging (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:49:18 EDT
- But wait a minute. They won't just 'stroll by' if you approach the situation properly. Here in the Midwest, we find the most effective approach is one we have learned from our beloved Chicago politic
- /html/mgs/1999-09/msg01169.html (9,005 bytes)
- 73. MG Spotting (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:38:20 EDT
- I had an MG spotting experience that surprised me a bit this weekend. Friday night I did a bit of a flashback to Fall 1973 when I was a senior in high school and put my dear old vinyl (snap, crackle
- /html/mgs/1999-09/msg01309.html (6,836 bytes)
- 74. Montezuma's Ferrari Book Signing (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 17:04:37 EDT
- Burt Levy will be hawking and signing his new book "Montezuma's Ferrari" (the sequel to "The Last Open Road") on Friday evening August 20 at the University Motors Late Summer Party Last Edition in Gr
- /html/mgs/1999-08/msg00137.html (6,616 bytes)
- 75. Congrats to Parker Whiteway (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 13:20:05 EDT
- Hats off to the list's Parker Whiteway who completed his first club rally. Parker and a friend (sorry I don't recall his name) ran in Saturday night's Chicagoland MG Club "Lucas Memorial Night Rally"
- /html/mgs/1999-08/msg00362.html (7,135 bytes)
- 76. RE: Petrol rip off (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:47:11 EDT
- <<<<All you chaps in the USA have it so good........... In the UK, it is 70pence a litre, that's about $5 a gallon - leaded is somewhat more (while we can still get it). Chris Nevard 71 MG Midget 78
- /html/mgs/1999-08/msg00482.html (8,628 bytes)
- 77. MG Go-Fast Good Guys (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:38:04 EDT
- I had a fun night on Tuesday when I stopped by Besic Motorsports in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. I got to see final in house prep and an engine test firing on a '91 Alfa Romeo Spyder that is now on its way
- /html/mgs/1999-08/msg00611.html (7,756 bytes)
- 78. Re: Solid State S.U. Fuel Pumps (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:25:44 EDT
- Neil Cotty quoted: <The electronic pumps are externally identical to their familiar electric <counterparts and the characteristic ticking has been retained. But if they stop pumping, will they respon
- /html/mgs/1999-07/msg00366.html (6,419 bytes)
- 79. EX182, 181 and 186 (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:42:13 EDT
- I'm at work so I'm going from memory - EX 182 was not just a car, it was 4 cars entered in the 1955 LeMans race. Numbers 40, 41, 42 & 64. Originally intended to be entered as production cars to promo
- /html/mgs/1999-07/msg00718.html (8,617 bytes)
- 80. Further EX182 Update (score: 1)
- Author: KGROWLER@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:41:10 EDT
- Further checking last night came up showing the sole surviving EX182 LeMans car of the 4 built is the #64 car driven by Ted Lund which is in Gerry Gouguen's MG Museum in Westminster, Vermont, USA. Ki
- /html/mgs/1999-07/msg00772.html (6,507 bytes)
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