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Re: $1000 MGA saga continues.

To: "Kevin Richards" <flybirds@erols.com>, "MG list" <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: $1000 MGA saga continues.
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 17:30:43 -0400
On 7/25/98 4:42 PM so and so (Kevin Richards) said. (And I quote:)

>Well, wide smile on face, I signed the loan papers for a quick $1000 and
>down to the body shop to pick it up. Got the bill of sale, and had it
>towed home. Had to free up the rear wheel cylinder and put the spare on
>the front (it was inflated!! what a kick!), and gave her a first bath.
>She was so happy to get clean. 
>Couple of things.....Could use some answers if possible.
>1. Overflow pipe to the SU's is pouring out gas. Stuck float?? How do
>you get to those floats??
>2. Starter not engaging the flywheel. I tried the TAP method of starter
>resurrection, but to no avail...any tricks??
>
>3. In the MkII, the brakes and clutch are served from the same master
>cylinder?? is this true?? do you just use brake fluid in the single
>reservoir??
>
>Any answers would be appreciated.
>
>Enjoying the premature realization of the "owning an MGA one day"
>Hopefully within the next year she will be roadworthy.
>
>Oh yeah....turns out that the odometer has an original, yes ORIGINAL
>23,000 miles. I don't know what I have done to deserve such a turn of
>good luck.
>
>I could also use a quick primer on how to start the SU's with a manual
>choke and that funny starter switch.
>
>Thanks 
>
>Kevin Richards
>67 B parts car
>77B finished
>62 MGA 1600MkII   YIPPEEEEEEEE!!!!!!  Happy boy today.
Let's see, Kevin I do not have the results of the Occup/age survey close 
at hand, but you are in the 20's, right? I had 2 count 'em 2 MGA's (a'59 
and a '61) when I was 14. Had to give 'em up 'cuz the folks wanted the 
garage back. Got both for $300. Sold both for $300. I kick myself on a 
regular basis. 
You stink.
Good luck!!!!!!

Let me see it at "The Rocks"
Larry Macy
78 Midget (w/ new polish and wax Dave and Mike)
(yea its green and so am I)

Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, PA 19104

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