I don't know about those forebears, do you have afterbears too?
As for moldering furniture, I had enough of that in and soon after college.
Aside from the MG 1100 front seats which graced the living room of the Rod
and Spanner (duplex which Larry Colen and I occupied while under the pretext
of taking University classes, but spent most of our time wrenching on LBCs),
we also had a scabrous brown couch that we lived with very comfortably, but
when we finally put it out at the curb for Goodwill to pick up, they REFUSED
to take it! - Too sleazy even for charity!
Cheers, PK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrie Alexander [SMTP:Lawrie@britcars.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 1998 6:14 PM
> To: KILE, PAUL D; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Kelvin's MG Tour of England
>
> Hey, you Amurrican would-be tourist, you, quit knockin' our Stately 'omes!
> How are our antiquated nobility supposed to pay their exorbitant death
> duties if we can't get you yanks to come over and buy tickets to walk
> around
> our draughty mansions and look at our moldering furniture and pictures of
> our dead forebears?
>
> Lawrie
>
> PS Even some of the art museums have some half-way decent pictures.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: KILE, PAUL D <Paul.Kile@Aerojet.com>
> To: 'mgs@autox.team.net' <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 8:31 AM
> Subject: RE: Kelvin's MG Tour of England
>
>
> >This sounds like great fun, I wish I could go. I went to the UK for a
> >similar adventure in the summer of 1997, met Kelvin and Paul Hunt, went
> to
> >Abingdon, saw a lot of museums, parts houses, and met Syd and Malcolm
> Beer -
> >an MG nut's dream. Also satisfied my airplane interests by going to
> Duxford
> >and Shuttleworth - GREAT collections, and even got to see everything from
> a
> >Bristol Boxkite to a Hawker Hurricane fly at the Shuttleworth evening
> >flypast.
> >
> >My trip was with a friend and fellow car nut, and therein lies the rub.
> I
> >had to swear that the next trip to the UK would include my WIFE, and that
> >SHE would have control over the itinerary. So I will have to be content
> with
> >my memories of the 1997 trip as I get dragged from stately home to art
> >museum and back...
> >
> >Cheers
> >Paul Kile
> >
> >
> >
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