- 1. RE: Car Names (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 97 10:04:00 PST
- I think the first "generically-inoffensive" name was KODAK which supposedly doesn't mean anything in any language. Phil Vanner O.K. Folks, this is going to sketchy, because it was something I heard o
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01218.html (7,534 bytes)
- 2. RE: K Series engine in B ? (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 97 09:51:00 PST
- It's been done, in street and full-race form. See MG World issue 1 Phil Vanner And A Midget with Dreams MGF, Now, how to I get a 1.8 VVC shoe-horned into my Midget? Just think of all the fun passing
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01366.html (7,804 bytes)
- 3. RE: Spiritual home (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 97 09:58:00 PST
- Some spridgets were also built at Cowley in the 60's Phil Vanner there Er hum, not all MGs. The early ones were built in Oxford. The MGF is built at Longbridge. Philip Raby Editor, MG World PO Box 16
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01654.html (6,995 bytes)
- 4. RE: Mobil MG signs (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 97 10:00:00 PST
- By the way, are there any Mobil executives out there who might be able to tell us how it happened that they used a car that's been out of production for 30-something years for these signs? Is the CEO
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01655.html (8,074 bytes)
- 5. RE: Brits believe in Peter Pan (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 97 09:50:00 PST
- I believe it is liquid soap, as when I lived in Ireland there was a brand of soap called Fairy. In the same category are the Canadian supermarkets named MAXI, it just won't sell to the US consumer. P
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg00146.html (8,292 bytes)
- 6. RE: Tachometer (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Oct 97 14:24:00 PDT
- The tach in my Midget barely moves at all in response to the engine RPM. How would I know if the loop is the right size? How does the size of the loop affect the reading? It seems like an awfully ina
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00410.html (9,186 bytes)
- 7. RE: Brake Pedal pads (was MGB website) (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 97 11:12:00 PDT
- A glob of semi-dry 3M weather-strip adhesive on the end of an old choke or throttle cable is useful for retrieving the plastic replacement MC cap from a spridget when it falls into the "Black Hole" a
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00769.html (8,594 bytes)
- 8. RE: BBQ??? (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 97 14:42:00 PDT
- Is it like the midget with the smallblock that would flip if you stomped it? Or does the Weber kettle survive the ordeal? (long stretch for LBC content) I once read somewhere about a bunch of guys w
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg02144.html (7,919 bytes)
- 9. Re: Garage Layouts (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 97 11:23:00 PDT
- All this talk of garage layouts reminds me of a house we looked at recently. (Darcie, my lovely wife, favors restoration projects of the wood-and-plaster variety.) This house was in Buffalo, MN. Ther
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg02147.html (7,898 bytes)
- 10. RE: Battery drain (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 15:11:00 PDT
- Boot light? We don't need no stinkin' boot light! Phil Vanner (with a batman mini-mag light for finding elusive tools) Mk1 Midget GAN1L2395 from I posted this back in April, but it seems appropriate
- /html/mgs/1997-07/msg00732.html (9,086 bytes)
- 11. A bit of drivel (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 16:05:00 PDT
- Somewhere there's a nineteen-year-old in a battered MGB. He seeks a bit of country road, where traffic shouldn't be. No silencer to speak of, loose spokes and rotted sills No care at all for niceties
- /html/mgs/1997-07/msg00737.html (7,241 bytes)
- 12. A bit of drivel (score: 1)
- Author: Phil@8.medpower.com
- Date: 11 Jul 1997 17:19:30 EST
- --< COMMENTS BY Monadnoc >-- Well my MG is without and engine and interior, but I sat in it today, out in the driveway, on an upturned milk crate, gripping the steering wheel. I did not know Dick, bu
- /html/mgs/1997-07/msg00756.html (7,551 bytes)
- 13. RE: Greece (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 09:33:00 PDT
- They say that most of the MGs were exported to the US, but I saw what seemed like an awful lot of them in Portugal this spring, including the only MGFs I'm likely to see "in the flesh" for some time.
- /html/mgs/1997-07/msg00863.html (7,628 bytes)
- 14. RE: Battery drain (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 15:04:00 PDT
- Hmmm.... good point! but since I don't have one do you suppose I could duct-tape my mag-light to the bumper so it shines on the plate? Phil Vanner (who suspects that cops pull people over for trivia
- /html/mgs/1997-07/msg00871.html (7,933 bytes)
- 15. RE: CD player (was Questions (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 97 11:34:00 PDT
- One of my wife's friends has a theory that penis size in inversely proportional to vehicle size. She calls it "compensating" Phil Vanner Mk1 MIDGET (heh, heh) --Original Message-- From: mgs-owner [SM
- /html/mgs/1997-07/msg00996.html (9,120 bytes)
- 16. RE: Birth Certificate for my Sprite? (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 97 10:23:00 PDT
- I didn't use an official "form." I mailed a letter to BMHT (I got the address from their site.) and included my credit card info and told them I wanted a trace certificate. Gave them the chassis numb
- /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01681.html (8,036 bytes)
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