- 21. Re: Multi-threaded: MG World, MG dash; MGF & Sports car styling (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:50:00 -0000
- I too like the RV8. Dynamically it may have been inferior to the state-of-the-art stuff, but then to some of us that is perhaps part of the appeal. You might be interested to know that the guy in cha
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01370.html (9,877 bytes)
- 22. Re:British Motor Heritage Museum (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 11:04:00 +0100
- and any other places of interest that one might find MG cars on show. My wife and I will be in England next month, and I would like to visit "MG PLACES"<<< The Heritage Museum is at Gaydon, Warwicksh
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00150.html (7,510 bytes)
- 23. RE: PR5 prototype, was Never seen MG (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:24:00 +0100
- Bless you - the cheque is in the post. A friend of my wife asked if it was true we were having the carpenters in - to make the door frame bigger, if you get my drift. PR5 is certainly a stunner - I w
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00922.html (8,737 bytes)
- 24. Midget based on Honda Civic? Not actually true.... (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:52:00 +0100
- At the time I thought "STUPID" then I thought It's an MG, get the placard in the consumers view. As far as I know they never delivered. Larry & Janet 78 Midget<<<< As far as Austin Rover (as the comp
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00924.html (8,694 bytes)
- 25. Re: Midget based on Honda Civic? Not actually true.... (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:51:00 +0100
- I love MGCs myself - but not everyone else in the world has done in the past, and sadly not even the people at MG really liked it much when it was current. And that is not just "subjective blather" b
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01039.html (10,824 bytes)
- 26. Re: Midget based on Honda Civic? Not actually true.... (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:57:00 +0100
- By the powers vested in me, thou art forgiven Oh Great and Powerful OZ (er David) I stand (er sit) corrected. As I read this I remebvered the details in R&T. Oops Forgive all Knoweledgable Larry Macy
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01040.html (9,491 bytes)
- 27. Re: Midget based on Honda Civic? Not actually true.... (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:55:00 +0100
- As far as the Acura Legend/ Sterling was concerned, these cars were jointly developed, and it is not strictly correct to say that the latter was just another version of the former. If you saw a Green
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01041.html (8,878 bytes)
- 28. Re: Acura Legend/ Sterling (was Midget based on Honda Civic not t (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:30:00 +0100
- It was admittedly very much a case of Honda being the dominant partner - mechanically the Acura and Sterling were very close. But teams of engineers from both companies worked closely together, devel
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01046.html (8,621 bytes)
- 29. Re: MG RV8 (was "never seen MG") (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:17:00 +0100
- a it axle in for were sure, but were examples <<<< The RV8's were all right hand drive, irrespective of the market. The only significant differences for non-UK markets (principally Japan, Germany and
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01146.html (9,385 bytes)
- 30. Re: Rover based on Integra (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:06:00 +0100
- the Concerto (sp?).<<<< Not quite true I'm afraid. The Honda Concerto was a sister car to the Rover 200/400 series of 1989-1994, and was a small (Escort sized) five door hatchback.
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01396.html (6,772 bytes)
- 31. RE: Concerto (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 09:27:00 +0100
- I don't think that the Concerto was sold in the 'States - certainly not the version built in the UK. Years ago, we had a Honda Integra (remember, the Acura name has never been used outside the US mar
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01528.html (7,301 bytes)
- 32. MGC V8 - they could have done one at Abingdon but didn't (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:26:00 -0000
- license Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net> wrote in eply: An MGC with a V8? What blasphemy! What sacrilege! What a hack! Was it for sale? Did it look cool? Who's V8? Enquiring minds want to know! MGCs
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01993.html (9,404 bytes)
- 33. Princess Diana (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 11:17:00 +0100
- Not wishing to dwell on this on an MG list, but thanks to those offering condolences to us Brits. The whole nation is in shock - all the palaces and places with a connection to either Diana or Dodi a
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00053.html (7,247 bytes)
- 34. Re: Princess Diana (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 15:57:00 +0100
- I too heard from a friend in the 'States, who phoned me at 5:00 a.m. our time as the news broke on US TV. The Kennedy connection struck me too - I was just a kid in London on that fateful day in '63,
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00069.html (10,345 bytes)
- 35. MGD and MGE - what they were (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 10:12:00 +0100
- I noticed the thread asking about what these cars were - and whether there were any pictures. The story of course is not simple; the MGD could have been Abingdon's own Midget in the late 'fifties, ha
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00511.html (8,698 bytes)
- 36. BMW, Chrysler and Rover (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 10:07:00 +0100
- record straight. "There has never been any discussion or plan, and I don't expect a merger of any kind," the frank-speaking CEO said Friday at a launch party here for the new Dodge Durango sport-util
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00623.html (7,842 bytes)
- 37. Kai's folks' suspicion of MG owners (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:55:00 +0100
- type of people who own HotRods and Muscle Cars...<<< heheheheh... have his folks got a shock coming if'n'when they meet some of us...
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00737.html (6,950 bytes)
- 38. Re: BMW, Chrysler and Rover: NEW MINI LOOKS GREAT! (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 10:26:00 +0100
- garage and says 'Vroom, vroom'. Insists on going for a drive around the neighbourhood, standing on my knees and turning the steering wheel himself. Girl (2) first wouldn't go near the garage because
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00738.html (7,647 bytes)
- 39. MG Book (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 10:47:00 +0100
- the best MG history I've come across (beats McComb hands down!)<<< aw shucks Phil - y'all made me blush (the money is in the post!)
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00742.html (6,600 bytes)
- 40. MG Magazine e-mail address? (score: 1)
- Author: David Knowles <dknowles@uk.b-r.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 16:32:00 +0100
- I tried to e-mail <britbooks@norwich.net> as suggested but it bounced as undeliverable; anyone have a correct/full address please?
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00745.html (6,647 bytes)
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