[Mgs] Traffic on the list

[Barney Gaylord]

Chuckle.  I distinctly remember my first post on this list, but I had 
to look up the date.  It was Sat, 20 Apr 1996, at a time when we were 
still paying AOL by the minute for connect time, and my email address 
was "BarneyMG at aol.com".  My first message was, "Anybody besides me 
still thrashing an MGA on a regular basis"?  The word "thrashing" 
immediately raised quite a ruckus, almost as bad as brake fluid or cats.

By that time I had already been autocrossing with SCCA nearly every 
weekend for five years, and had already broken the engine a few 
times.  1996 was also the year I put 21,000 miles on the MGA in one 
year putzing around on club activities.  Early that year the car had 
only 75,000 miles in nine years after the first restoration 
(following 150,000 miles before I bought the car with three layers of 
paint).  The car now has 391,000 miles (241,000 or it under my foot), 
and I continue to "thrash" it at every opportunuty.  Lots of good 
memories on this list.

Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
http://MGAguru.com



At 12:00 AM 11/27/2011 -0500, mgmagnette at aol.com wrote:
>For giggles, I looked up when I first posted on mgs at autox.team.net 
>:    It was Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:28:47 EDT  My email address then 
>was  WJAD81D at prodigy.com
>Prodigy, lol.
>
>I don't know how 1995 is possible, parents bought the MGB in 1992... 
>and surely it broke down before then!  When was team.net started?
>
>Lets see so I was born May 12, 1978.  I was on this list Apr 1995, 
>when I was 17.   Now I'm 33...   Oh geez, in one year I'll have been 
>on this mailing list 1/2 my life!
>
>There used to be so many messages I'd have to delete hundreds of them a day.
>
>Anyway, I'm never giving up on Mgs at autox.team.net  even if everyone 
>has moved over to the MG Experience site.  Barney Gaylord is an MG-enius.
>....