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41. Re: Alaska Trip Update - 2/11 #1 (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:16:19 -0800
Hi Barney - I don't know whether or not it would fit into your plans, but the Okanagan British Car Club has their annual all marques British car show on in Penticton, B.C. on July 4, 5, & 6. This eve
/html/mgs/1997-02/msg00507.html (11,770 bytes)

42. British Sportscar Center (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:00:42 -0800
/html/mgs/1997-02/msg01207.html (7,888 bytes)

43. Re: Burned Big Time (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:41:38 -0800
Hi Bill - I don't think the perfect system can ever be devised to enable you to buy a car sight unseen, although, as you suggest, the proper questions will definitely assist you in your determination
/html/mgs/1997-02/msg01324.html (14,389 bytes)

44. Re: Cold Starting (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 09:13:16 -0800
Hi Tom - in the wilds of the Canadian prairies, where it has been known to get a little chilly, I was taught with the purchase of my first LBC in 1959 (a bugeye) that the proper starting procedure wa
/html/mgs/1997-01/msg00511.html (8,148 bytes)

45. Re: was 79 MGB FS now Maintanance of automobiles (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:42:35 -0800
Hi David - since when did God move to NYC? I can appreciate some of your postings to the list, but have you ever noticed that whenever an issue comes up (other than Dan Hughes)that gets people riled
/html/mgs/1997-01/msg00726.html (11,798 bytes)

46. yellow leather? (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:12:55 -0800
Hi - I recently got my MGC GT back from the paint shop with its new primrose paint. Everything looked great, until we started re-assembly of all the bits that had been removed prior to painting. The
/html/mgs/1997-01/msg01146.html (6,823 bytes)

47. Re: Sales Broachers 1971< MGB (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:25:25 -0800
Dick - it ain't necessarily so! Here in the wilds of Canada, our government did not deem the threat of broken kneecaps from the eared knock offs to be a threat to our population. I believe Mr. Clausa
/html/mgs/1997-01/msg01183.html (7,246 bytes)

48. MGB LE (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 16:02:26 -0800
Hi - I recently purchased a 1979 MGB LE #GHN5UL492209G from the original owner. The car was originally sold in Canada although it spent almost all of its life in southern Calif. My question is this -
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01249.html (7,541 bytes)

49. Re: MGB LE (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 23:58:47 -0800
Hi David - thanx for your help. You don't mention body color or interior color. All of the Canadian ones I have seen have the black exterior with tan interior - is that the case on all the US ones? C
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01269.html (9,031 bytes)

50. homestay@infolearn.com.au (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 10:10:13 -0800
Hi - regarding the recent thread on autocrossing and the terminology for the different events we use our cars for, what Barney's country calls autocrossing, is known as slaloming in western Canada. I
/html/mgs/1996-11/msg00098.html (7,126 bytes)

51. Re: MGA track width (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 02:12:08 -0800
How about buying a long length of 2x10 inch lumber, and strapping it on to the trailer so that one side of the car rides on the lumber. As long as there are an adequate number of structural cross bra
/html/mgs/1996-11/msg00192.html (7,663 bytes)

52. RE: Winterizing (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 18:30:35 -0800
Hi Nick - surely you jest! You have yet to experience a Canadian winter. Once the snow gets to be two feet deep in Ottawa, the road maintenace folks have probably used a million pounds of salt. Anyon
/html/mgs/1996-11/msg00509.html (8,182 bytes)

53. Re: windshield wipers (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:16:44 -0800
Hi Larry - I have found the easiest way to solve this problem without damaging the wheel box or the body sheet metal, is to use a nut splitter. New nuts are available from all the British parts house
/html/mgs/1996-11/msg01527.html (7,245 bytes)

54. Re: Conversion rates (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:11:48 -0800
Hi Sheree - not very much! Seriously, about $5140 US$ I think. Cheers, Len Drake Kelowna, B.C. Canada
/html/mgs/1996-11/msg01683.html (6,974 bytes)

55. MG's for offspring (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 21:10:53 -0800
Hi - I'm an eccentric old fart of 56 who loves LBC's with a passion and have a personal collection of about 30 of them. We have a family of four kids who, for some reason, seem to have inherited the
/html/mgs/1996-11/msg01855.html (8,238 bytes)

56. MGB V8 (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 09:36:53 -0700
Hi David - it gets better. My V8 conversion, using the 215 c.i. Buick, turns over at just over 1700 rpm at 70 mph. I used a Borg Warner T50 five speed and a narrowed Ford 8" rear end with 273 gears.
/html/mgs/1996-10/msg00031.html (6,724 bytes)

57. want to buy mg (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 16:38:36 -0700
Dear Folks - I am a collector and supplier of cars to many folks in British Columbia. I am leaving for California on Sunday with my son. We had planned on bringing back two cars and now one of my dea
/html/mgs/1996-10/msg00144.html (7,407 bytes)

58. Coverting a "B" to V8 power (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 19:07:02 -0700
Hi I just ran across a really good web page devoted to V8 conversions, complete with parts lists and prices. So...... if this interests anyone, the address is http://www.mgcars.org.uk/v8conv/v8conv1.
/html/mgs/1996-10/msg00149.html (6,394 bytes)

59. Want to buy MG (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 21:42:08 -0700
Dear Mr. C Master - I am sure every subscriber appreciates your self appointed role as watchdog of the net to save it from corps who would ravage the British car owners along the west coast. Unfortun
/html/mgs/1996-10/msg00159.html (8,110 bytes)

60. Re: jump starting (score: 1)
Author: drake@direct.ca (len drake)
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 20:35:41 -0700
Hi Chet - apology accepted. I'm sure your cc to mgs@autox will make the people who e-mailed to me regarding your comments also feel a little better. I don't know where you live, Chet, but if you ever
/html/mgs/1996-10/msg00186.html (7,064 bytes)


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