- 61. Silly car (not MG) (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 17:01:15 -0600
- Anyone want to do this to a GT? http://www.dealsonwheels.com/database/cars/10845big.jpg Makes you wonder doesn't it. Regards, Bill Eastman 61 MGA
- /html/mgs/1998-11/msg00112.html (7,198 bytes)
- 62. RE: Silly car (not MG) -Reply (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 10:49:04 -0600
- Maybe I should have given more details. I did not mean to imply that it was an MG. In fact it is an Opel GT. The car is for sale for the very modest sum of 25k. It is advertised as a "Batmobile." As
- /html/mgs/1998-11/msg00155.html (7,542 bytes)
- 63. Winter blues (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 10:54:33 -0600
- Well I went and did it. For the first time in my life, I have paid someone else to store my car for the winter. The MGA took all of this in stride, nestling into her new surroundings with Mike H's BG
- /html/mgs/1998-11/msg00407.html (7,177 bytes)
- 64. MkII Sprite for sale. (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 11:21:57 -0600
- My neighbor still has his Sprite for sale- MkII with side curtains but square body. Body redone- red. New top. Brakes redone. Runs. Needs interior work. Car is near Minneapolis, MN. He was asking $25
- /html/mgs/1998-11/msg00577.html (6,512 bytes)
- 65. Bending brake lines (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:37:30 -0600
- In the past I have bent brake lines around a 2 inch or so diameter piece of steel held in a vice. I never kinked anything but everyone is different. Although I used solid steel, I expect that a piece
- /html/mgs/1998-11/msg00693.html (7,173 bytes)
- 66. Defending the MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:47:00 -0600
- The Pininfarina GT design is by far the best body MG ever produced, even better than the A. >>>>> I realize that styling is a personal taste thing but jeez, Steve, you should know by now that any sla
- /html/mgs/1998-11/msg00705.html (7,667 bytes)
- 67. Re: Defending the MGA -Reply (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:39:18 -0600
- The 'A' was the sad and slow 'wonder bra' MG era. >>>> Bob, I don't know about you but I would not consider the 'wonder bra' to be ugly or in poor taste. Now if by jumping in on the side of the GT o
- /html/mgs/1998-11/msg00710.html (9,230 bytes)
- 68. Trailer questions (not very MG) (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:08:14 -0600
- I am about to embark on a journey of epic stupidity. Through the great bounty of this list, I have located and agreed to purchase a large pile of parts represented to be what remains of a 1958 Jaguar
- /html/mgs/1998-11/msg01661.html (7,907 bytes)
- 69. Trailer take two (No MG) (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:38:27 -0600
- As stated before, I have a mismatch between my truck and the rented trailer. The trailer is a low boy heavy duty tandem unit. The rental place also has a lighter duty trailer made to haul multiple (f
- /html/mgs/1998-11/msg01663.html (7,233 bytes)
- 70. Weekend trip, MGA cooling update (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 11:16:26 -0500
- This weekend I was called upon to make a quick jaunt up to Niagra on the Lake in southern Ontario. Flew into Toronto, rented a Chevy Lumina (a pig of a car but probably a decent value) and drove down
- /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00156.html (8,357 bytes)
- 71. Side Curtain Sprite for sale- Minneapolis, MN (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:44:37 -0500
- I am posting this for a friend who has a side curtain Sprite Mk II (not a Bugeye) for sale. He restored the body a few years back- his father had a body shop so it looks nice (bright red). The interi
- /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00584.html (6,773 bytes)
- 72. Bringing a car in from Canada (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:01:00 -0500
- I am considering buying an old car or, more precisely, a pile of parts that were at one time more or less assembled as an old car, in Canada. Has anyone on the list had experience in doing this? I am
- /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00727.html (6,737 bytes)
- 73. Cool Web site- solder-it (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:11:56 -0500
- I was surfing the net looking for sources of body lead when I came across this website: http://www.solder-it.com/ The sell all sorts of solder paste and torches for use with different base materials.
- /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00886.html (6,548 bytes)
- 74. MGA radiator Q (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 11:23:04 -0500
- Has anyone seen the new Moss sales paper yet? Do they have MGA radiators on sale? I know that they were on sale cheap last month but I didn't need one last month, I need one now :-( Also, any input o
- /html/mgs/1998-09/msg00084.html (6,910 bytes)
- 75. Stromberg jetting (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 13:30:25 -0500
- I had the same problem with a Spit**re. After putting on a Longflow air cleaner, an exhaust header, and recurving the distributor, I had lean top end and rich bottome end. What I did was buy a coupl
- /html/mgs/1998-09/msg00372.html (7,681 bytes)
- 76. Classic Motorbooks Wheels and Wings 12 September (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 10:27:10 -0500
- If you can make it, this is a fun event. Lots of cars of all descriptions from custom bodied prewar Roll's to Competition Cobras to Hot rods to old farm tractors. For those of us with an aeronautical
- /html/mgs/1998-09/msg00417.html (8,184 bytes)
- 77. MGA Radiator Update- Back on the Road! real long (score: 1)
- Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:58:24 -0500
- Once again the MGA is back on the road. It took two weeks but it now has a radiator in front of the engine again instead of a big hole to match the one in her driver's head. It all started when I fo
- /html/mgs/1998-09/msg00676.html (11,088 bytes)
- 78. New MG (score: 1)
- Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 22:12:41 -0500
- <<<The next MG, which will be front-engined, front-wheel-drive (sadly) will also be sold in the US. -- Philip Raby, Editor, MG World>>> This must be further proof that either BMW is trying to kill MG
- /html/mgs/1998-09/msg00725.html (9,094 bytes)
- 79. Aluminum head Q (score: 1)
- Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:31:48 -0500
- Northwest Imports is offering a complete aluminum B series head for USD 695.00. This prices does not seem unreasonable. Has anyone had any experience with these heads? This is not a cross flow head b
- /html/mgs/1998-09/msg01082.html (6,760 bytes)
- 80. New MG (score: 1)
- Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:37:03 -0500
- I was reading in Autoweek that BMW has discontinued the 4 cylinder Z-3. So, Philip, do you have any pull with the powers that be? It sounds like there may be room at the bottom of the line up for a s
- /html/mgs/1998-09/msg01083.html (7,669 bytes)
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