> Hello all, Just a short non-lbc note here...There's a new member of my family
> that just arrived last night at 12:54am, 20Jan94. Her name is Victoria
> Noelle, and she weighed 7 lbs and 1 1/4 oz. Mom and baby are doing fine.
Congratulations! As this is my birthday too, I can assure you
that you'll have... um... a very *special* child. :-) My own
daughters bought me wonderful presents: Torrey, 6, bought me that
special little SU wrench made just for adjusting the mixture nut.
"And I bought it with my own money," she told me proudly, "and I
wrote all the words on the card." Bronwen, almost 3, contributed
to the decision to purchase a genuine pair of string-back gloves,
of the kind advertised in the Moss Motors catalog and other places.
They're quite nice, and they're just my size, the perfect thing
for driving my M.G. Next I need to get my leather flying helmet
back out, find a set of goggles, and cut the dashing figure again.
Now, of course, you'll have to figure out a way to put the kid
seat into the LBC. I can attest for great success in early MGBs,
as the fixed seatbelts adapt very well to the Renolux line. I've
seen a car seat installed on the rear bench -- perhaps "perch" is
more appropriate -- of an MGB-GT as well (Stan, are you still on
the list?) I took Torrey to preschool for some three years as
the passenger in my M.G.
And note also that kids *love* LBCs. Last Saturday, Chris Kantarjiev
was at my house helping me get the Green Car started. On the same day,
my neighbor was selling his '87 Porsche Carerra; I had the ZX and the
red Volvo parked in the driveway, and Chris had Sarah, his '67 TR4-A,
parked in front of my house. We heard two boys about 10 ride by on
bikes, and one said "Cool car;" the other said "Yeah, that's the kind
my dad used to have when he was younger."
They were looking at the Triumph.
We've noticed the same phenomenon in the past. Once when I had the
M.G. parked in front of Chris' GT-6, a neighbor of his walked past with
two little kids about 2 and 4. Both teeny heads swiveled in unison
as they walked past, as though there was a string tied between their
noses and the doorhandles of the two cars.
"Kids love LBCs," I commented. "They're little, they don't look like
real cars, they have faces and character and neat weird little details,
they just look like toys that are going to be fun to play with."
"Of course," Chris said. "All the same reasons we like them."
Kids haven't lost the feeling that the sense of wonder is more important
than wondering what makes sense. And if that doesn't define what it
takes to like British cars, I don't know what does.
--Scott
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