Man o man - I thought I was the only one to ever rear end a police car with
an MG!! I was sad for years over the loss of my MGA - I am still known to
say 30 years later to whoever I'm with when I see an MGA - "You should have
seen the MGA I had, rear ended a police car with it back in '71.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From <RBHouston at aol.com>
To: <mpcook@highaltitude.com>; <type79@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: 262 on list
> In a message dated 04/04/2000 11:03:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> mpcook@highaltitude.com writes:
>
> << My first spridget was a blue 1960 Midget, which
> I drove daily in Connecticut in the early '70's. I bought the blue one
> because my 1961 MGA which I had totalled the year before (by rear-ending
a
> Danbury CT police car) had also been blue. >>
>
>
> Ahhhhh...the memories, my first LBC was a Riley 1.5..MGA chassis
basically
> including the twin SUs amd a 4 door sedan (saloon) body. Drove it right
> smack into the back of a 64 Ford Galaxie police cruiser in downtown Waco,
> Texas...it's a wonder I lived to tell about it....
>
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