- 41. Re: MGA question (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:21:01 -0400 (EDT)
- That's exactly what I paid for mine last August. Mine is also a 1960 1600, with tired paint and little to no interior (seats are okay, just no carpet or panels). Mine had been stored for 10 years and
- /html/mgs/1997-04/msg00668.html (6,918 bytes)
- 42. Scarborough Faire (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 23:45:29 -0500 (EST)
- Does anyone have anything good to say about the quality of merchandise from SC? Specifically, interior stuff? Just looking quickly, and comparing with VB, it looks like I could recover my own seats (
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00019.html (6,943 bytes)
- 43. Re: MGs for sale (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:05:41 -0500 (EST)
- I believe I can help. It's www.traderonline.com The drawback is that you don't get the phone numbers unless you send them $1.00 (via credit card) per search, limit 100 cars. I used this quite a bit w
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg01214.html (7,322 bytes)
- 44. Re: MG vs. Triumph (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:10:35 -0500 (EST)
- I'll bite. When I was a kid, my friend Ray got a Spitfire, and I thought it was cool. When I went away to college, my dad found an MGB for me. I hated the Spitfire after that (noisy, hot, stinky, rea
- /html/mgs/1997-01/msg00128.html (8,387 bytes)
- 45. Re: Making my car level. (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:03:38 -0500 (EST)
- If you make your car level, how do you compensate for the crown in the tom 60 MGA (maybe someday it will be far enough along that I'll worry about such things)
- /html/mgs/1997-01/msg00408.html (7,956 bytes)
- 46. Mga Wheel (steering that is) (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 23:27:27 -0500 (EST)
- I noticed Moss has their repro MGA steering wheel on sale right now. Does anyone on the list (Barney, Kevin?) have any experience with these or other wheels? Mine is original and pretty well shot. 1/
- /html/mgs/1997-01/msg01055.html (7,963 bytes)
- 47. Re: fuel pumps (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 21:44:40 -0500 (EST)
- I had the same experience with my MGA. The pump would run a long time like it was out of gas. I pulled my pump and tried pumping gas thru it from a jar (easy enough to try), the pump was fine. Ended
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg00144.html (7,451 bytes)
- 48. Dan Hughes Day (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 22:33:58 -0500 (EST)
- I wasn't gonna post about some of the stupid things I've done, but after reading some of these, I thought mine were at least as amusing. So, with the details left to the imagination: 1) involves a '7
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg01104.html (8,132 bytes)
- 49. Audi bashing a B? (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:46:26 -0500 (EST)
- I saw a TV commercial the other night for an Audi Quattro. The ad featured a large SUV trying to parallel park, and beating the crap out of what looked to me like a chrome bumpered MGB which is in th
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00180.html (6,400 bytes)
- 50. Re: Guy Fawkes / Earings / Dipstick (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 16:27:39 -0500 (EST)
- I'm pretty sure I saw the earrings in a Triple C catalog I got at a show. I also think they're on the monster list. I don't have their info with me at work, but if anyone's interested, I'll look at h
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00275.html (6,624 bytes)
- 51. Re: Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 22:38:01 -0500 (EST)
- My '60 A is as Ray describes, so maybe this changed with the B? Tom
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01635.html (7,773 bytes)
- 52. Re: Part suppliers? (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 11:15:07 -0400 (EDT)
- I go through Dick Burger at the British Parts Connection. He shops the best prices for you from the vendors you mentioned, then slices off another 15-30%. He is a supplier of all the vendors you ment
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00055.html (6,915 bytes)
- 53. Re: the best top for an MGA? (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:16:20 -0400 (EDT)
- I have an Amco top for an MGA still in the box. The snaps are NOT Tom
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00112.html (6,508 bytes)
- 54. MGA Interior stuff (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:37:30 -0400 (EDT)
- I have a set of vinyl seat covers and door panels (covers, no cardboard) in tan that are in really good shape and that I don't think I'm going to use. I also have almost 5 yds of vinyl that I bought
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00114.html (6,966 bytes)
- 55. Re: MGA Choke Was:Beautiful Day for a Drive (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:23:27 -0400 (EDT)
- As long as we're all talking about chokes, I have a question about mine on my '60 MGA. The question is: Shouldn't it do something? This car sat for 10 years, then the owner got it running (a conditio
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00478.html (7,238 bytes)
- 56. Re: Trim panel cardboard. (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 11:29:35 -0400 (EDT)
- I'm pretty sure that Dick Burger at the Brittish Parts Connection told me once that if you don't need a whole interior kit, he could get individual panels. Tom
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00098.html (6,633 bytes)
- 57. MGA Maiden Voyage: A Titanic Success (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 08:31:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Well, I got the '60 A registered Tuesday, finally; fabricated a front license plate bracket Tuesday night; bowled Wednesday night (is summer really over?); was called a chicken last night by my fathe
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00150.html (7,445 bytes)
- 58. Re: mga door adjustments (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 08:36:36 -0400 (EDT)
- I'd be interseted in this also. Tom
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00218.html (7,268 bytes)
- 59. Re: mga door adjustments (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 10:35:43 -0400 (EDT)
- My doors also fit flush (actually I think the drivers side front wing is a little low near the door), but for some reason, you really have to slam the 1or 2 lb. doors. On a Cadillac, where it takes 2
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00298.html (8,356 bytes)
- 60. Re: MGA Prices (was Re: Racing MGA mods. & MGA price guessing (fwd) (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:30:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Sorry the original heading got lost. I will respond to this by saying "it all depends." I looked for a car for several years. I ended up with a '60 1600. It had been stored for 10 years, but was in r
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00572.html (11,216 bytes)
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