To All:
There are cars in Texas for sale, as I have posted some
to this alias sometime ago. The Houston area for sure
as some.
The usual verbage applies, as I get nothing out of this
except to put it out to people who might be interested.
Thanks
Tom Wagner
`67' MGB
(Various stages of restoration - All
Paint removed to metal, working on rust
removal.) Waiting for day to become daily
vehicle.
`92' Honda Civic LX(Excellent car)
`93' Honda Civic CDX(Moms car)
Sun Microsystems
Sun Service Division - Program Manager
Phone: 713-964-7068
Houston, TX.
Email: tom.w.wagner@Central.Sun.com
> From mgs-owner@autox.team.net Sun May 19 11:54 CDT 1996
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> Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 10:52:21 -0600
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> From: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
> Subject: the top's on blues
>
> While you guys discuss the wonders of driving with the top down or how to
> fold it, I am reminded of the days when I had my 65 B. But now I have a
> 71BGT. Great in the winters, it sits idle part of the summer when the heat
> inside the car, helped by the black interior, becomes intolerable.
>
> Not that I am totally with top on. I have my 74 Toyota Landcruiser with
> softtop. It brings its own pleasurable ride in a completely different style
> than a LBC. More like a tank, it goes almost anywhere so long as its
> insatiable taste for petrol is satified. And I can even fold the windshield
> down during those slow, rugged four wheel drive expeditions.
>
> But its top does not come off or on so easily. Nor does the top and frame
> fold compactly for convenient transport. But now that I actually have a
> garage (three stalls no less), I just leave the top off during the whole
> summer. Unfortunately, its not summer yet here in Montana - lots of rain and
> cool temperatures (50-60 F), but those warm and dry summer days are getting
> closer. That is part of my top is still on lament.
>
> But there is more. Just reading posts on this list, I realize what I am
> missing. The convenient and impromptu topless cruise (granted too that my
> favorite drive and perhaps one of the greatest MG cruises in the USA is
> still snowed in until at least mid-June. I refer to the Beartooth Highway,
> just an hour away).
> I must also say that I feel deprived when I see many of you have more than
> one MG. So now I crave another MG, something in the sixties vintage, perhaps
> a C.
>
> However, my wife, who does not fully understand the MG experience, has this
> belief that when a man gets older, he wants to buy a slick convertible to
> impress and hustle young women. Its part of this midlife crisis belief. So
> now that I am thinking C, she thinks I have ulterior motives. Now you see my
> dilemma.
>
> My questions:
>
> 1. How does one convince their wife of the true MG experience?
> (My wife already thinks I spend too much on the car, but in reality it is
> incredible cheap. Its paid for and I doubt I average more than $200/year in
> parts).
>
> 2. Are women really attracted to cool British cars like MGs?
> (It didn't work in college - but then my 65B had quite a bit of rust, it was
> noisy, and seldom had the top on).
>
>
> 3. Anyone have leads on a good C or even an early 60s B (with the cool dash,
> toggle switches, and numbered gauges)?
> (Unfortunately, I am not quite wealthy enough to buy one yet. But I hope
> that later this year I will have enough money to get something low on rust).
>
>
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