sorry I missed seeing some of you fellow listers at the show. My family came
along
for a look. I had my list badge displayed around my neck and got no comments. We
arrived at 2PM on Saturday in the Taurus not the TD. Had a good time seeing some
of the vendors that have become friends as I have spent mucho denaro with
several
of them.
Cheers,
Steve
52 TD
doug russell wrote:
> I made it to MG-98 on Saturday and made the nearly 500 mile round trip in a
> single day. I left my house at 4:30 am and met up with Larry Macy at about
> 5:45 - we made the remainder of the trip together. The pre-dawn hour drive to
> meet up with Larry was very pleasant and peaceful in the topless C (sun rise,
> birds chirping and all that).
>
> Larry and I agreed that we would install CBs (that's Citizen Band Radio) to
> communicate with each other while driving. It was only a marginal success as
> it was very hard to understand what was being said over the wind noise. But
> all-in-all, it served a useful purpose and the term "Pee", used by Larry on
> several occasions, could be differentiated from the other most frequently used
> term - "what?".
>
> On the way, the C developed a "top of the tank" leak that I learned of when
> Larry noticed a growing puddle under the C after filling up at a gas station.
> Undeterred, we continued along our way in octagonal bliss. I was impressed
> that Larry's Midget seemed to cruise at a comfortable 70mph - there were a few
> times where I lost sight of him in the rear view mirror but I think this is
> because Larry needed to adjust his tonneau. BTW, Larry has this great system
> for keeping the passenger side tonneau taught - he keeps a collapsible chair,
> and some other odds and ends, on top of it! Along the way I took a few camera
> shots of Larry cruising down the highway with his tonneau system - we'll see
> how these turn out. Anyway, the trip there was a real joy and even better
> when we started meeting up with other MGs - the first of which was this guy
> and gal driving a CB MG from ALASKA - now that's a long trip!!
>
> We arrived about 10 am and there were about 50 cars already on the field.
> Neither Larry nor I had pre registered (I guess we're just lazy) and had to go
> through that routine. Once on the field Larry and I learned what happens when
> you over fill a C crankcase with oil - it ends up on the front of Larry's
> Midget! Anyway, no problem, I had glass cleaner and body detailer that
> cleaned up most of it - anyway, we found David D. spontaneously waxing the
> engine hood on Larry's car a few hours later and he made it shine like new -
> it's good to have a guy like Dave around.
>
> The show was spectacular - I am always impressed with seeing so many other MGs
> in one place. They use to be so commonplace.
>
> I met a few listers that I had not seen before including Dan Ray (although I
> missed the Tohoe parked a mile away), Mike Robson (uh, I'm 43 not 44), Bill
> Schooler (yup, I thought you were Bill Spohn too and thought it very ironic
> that you were parked next to a GT with a union jack painted on its top!!!) and
> of course Kevin Richards who was bubbling all over about his car and his first
> MG gathering (I couldn't really tell if he was excited to be in the company of
> all the MG stuff or just happy that his car made it or both) - either way,
> this is probably why he forgot my name. I missed John Rossi and Gene Fox but
> said hello to your cars (did they mention that??). A few folks from my new
> local "Keystone" club were there as well including Rick Brown with his nicely
> done GT.
>
> The trip home was fortunately, uneventful. I headed out about 4:30 pm and
> passed about 50 MGs on Route 70 prior to heading north on Route 81 - you were
> all looking good and I was sorry to have missed the day's evening events - I
> was very tempted to just get in line and head off to the banquet with the rest
> of you but ....
>
> One last thing, Larry and I came up with this brilliant idea - display our
> online badges in the windshield next to the show ID placard to garner online
> votes. This strategy failed us as neither drove home with awards.
>
> Kudos for the MGs of Baltimore crowd for Hagerstown event - good job.
>
> Dr. Doug
> 69 C Rdst
> 69 C GT
> 69 B Rdst
> 76 B Rdst
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