- 161. RE: Queer Child Bashing (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:54:02 -0600
- I'm not really an adult, I just play one at work. Phil Vanner As I recall a wise Englishman once said "There's no point in being a grown up if you can't act like a kid once in a while". Tom Baker (Dr
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg00280.html (8,222 bytes)
- 162. Signing off (temporarily) ROAD TRIP (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 13:07:48 -0600
- Bye list I'm off on another road trip: Minneapolis, Providence (RI), New = Brunswick (NJ), Richmond (VA), St Genevive (MO) and the Mississippi = River road back to Minneapolis. With at least one stop
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg00341.html (6,541 bytes)
- 163. RE: MGA world at news stand? - warning- some sarcasm included (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 15:27:16 -0600
- I feel like I am on a Quest for the Holy Grail of automotive journals and that those around me are trying to protect me from the perils of that quest. Well I, for one, could stand "just a little peri
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01238.html (7,924 bytes)
- 164. RE: MGB weighs 2380 Lbs (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 15:53:53 -0600
- I think the 1600 pounds you read about was what an Englishman PAID for an MGB. Phil Vanner Ok whats the punch line to this joke? ..Art
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01239.html (7,501 bytes)
- 165. RE: Oh boy, power tools! (no MG) (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:47:19 -0600
- I picked mine up yesterday. There is a Home Depot about 3 blocks from my = house that opened about a month ago. (part of me loves it, part of me = hates it.) Of course they don't have last year's Ryo
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01272.html (10,592 bytes)
- 166. Re: Exercize(sic) (score: 1)
- Author: "Phil Vanner" <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 03:43:23 -0600
- While I may be "about" the same age as my MG it's got nine years on Darcie and I think she'd object if I swapped her out for a "period original" and took a road trip. Phil Vanner '61 Midget Just back
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01369.html (7,938 bytes)
- 167. RE: Off Topic, again... (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 12:14:24 -0600
- I've always been assuming that the spinning produced a gyroscopic stabilizing effect at high vehicle speeds. Have I been wrong? Phil Vanner '61 Midget (with captain's chairs for simultaneous rotation
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01396.html (7,998 bytes)
- 168. RE: Advice on a MGC wanted (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 12:31:24 -0600
- Only tangentially related to original post: Is the auto tranny B or C any different structurally from the "normal" = car? The reason I ask is that among the BMW 2002 crowd, while autos are = looked d
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01399.html (8,173 bytes)
- 169. RE: Pair of MGBs (central Texas) (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:03:21 -0600
- Looks like ol' Wes shoulda set down a few ground rules before he took that long walk ... --Original Message-- I got married over the summer and my wife said the toys have to go. I'll take $2500 for t
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01611.html (6,637 bytes)
- 170. Re: sacrifices... (score: 1)
- Author: "Phil Vanner" <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:15:30 -0600
- I agree with Ross and Ulix on this one. My wife definitely "DID NOT APPROVE" of the MG. (Her words, her emphasis, as quoted at the Minnesota MG Group kick-off brunch for the 1997 season.) However, on
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01956.html (8,952 bytes)
- 171. Re: Way Off-Topic was Engine RPM "Redline" - How to determine? (score: 1)
- Author: "Phil Vanner" <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 21:06:03 -0600
- Some Colonies do manage to complicate things: I was born in the "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" (the official name) Which is barely big enough to be one place, let alone trying to
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01957.html (8,337 bytes)
- 172. Re: Origins of Cat thread (fur balls?) (score: 1)
- Author: "Phil Vanner" <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:07:41 -0500
- Yes Philip, that last joke on the last page was kind of amusing but I think I've heard it somewhere before... --
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00099.html (9,204 bytes)
- 173. RE: Origins of Cat thread (fur balls?) (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 10:22:21 -0500
- So the way I see it is - You can laugh at a Morgan driver's goofy hat = from a distance but if you want to laugh at an MGB driver - you've got = to walk up to the car and peer in at his shorts!=20 Ph
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00111.html (8,794 bytes)
- 174. First Flakes (score: 1)
- Author: "Phil Vanner" <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 08:54:00 -0500
- Yesterday defied the meteorologists and the afternoon was sunny and cool. I had a hectic, typically Monday, day at work, and as I drove home all I could think of was how nice it would be to take the
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00834.html (8,282 bytes)
- 175. Re: First Flakes (score: 1)
- Author: "Phil Vanner" <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:20:35 -0500
- Oh, If only it were possible here! My car is from Southern California (stll has the "Burbank Sportscar Centre" badge) and is rustless enough that last night may well be the only snow it has seen in i
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00847.html (8,388 bytes)
- 176. Re: New to MG's and looking at a '69 (score: 1)
- Author: "Phil Vanner" <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 01:27:02 -0500
- Other than the body work? That leaves... -- Estimated cost of mechanics $3K not counting the paint and body work Even without the 'run, don't walk' bodywork, the mechanic makes out awfully well at $3
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01147.html (8,795 bytes)
- 177. Re: FAST British Cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Phil Vanner" <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 01:10:20 -0500
- Urban legend has it that it was one of those JATO units... -- sound rocket in the
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01148.html (8,995 bytes)
- 178. Re: Midget Kit (score: 1)
- Author: "Phil Vanner" <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 09:01:28 -0500
- So that's how this works. We think it's great when spridgets get their own list and now we find out that it's just because 'they' want to be rid of us. I believe this is what is meant by the term "k
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01263.html (8,853 bytes)
- 179. RE: [Non-MG] Dremel tool (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:39:20 -0500
- The variable speed kind that I am familiar with will not go slow enough = (10,000 RPM minimum) to cut styrene or most plastics cleanly, it kind of = melts it. Makes for unsightly seams. These have a
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01622.html (11,591 bytes)
- 180. The thread that would not die... (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 10:17:11 -0500
- Sign painted on the roll-up door of a semi-trailer I followed on my way into work this morning: Keep 'em running with genuine CAT PARTS (original emphasis) Maybe there is more to this after all... Ph
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01688.html (6,434 bytes)
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