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Fuel, ugly paint

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Subject: Fuel, ugly paint
From: Keith Wheeler <keithw@sand.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:07:32 -0800
Fuel consumption:

I swear it's true!  I *once* got 29 MPG from my 'B.  This
was on The Trek Out West (moving from Arkansas to California).
Crusing at 85 to 90 in the Arizona desert.  The car ran a little
hot, but not too bad.  Maybe a DCOE is a happy carb when it's
opened up.  

Or maybe it was just the desert air...

Ugly paint:

Eric Erickson wrote:

>> 
>> ....Canary yellow with Orange stripe down middle of bonnet and 
>> boot...Orange MG logo on bonnet and doors...
>>
>
>May I be the first to say... YUK!  Who in their right mind would do
>*that* to an MG?
>
>We are getting quite a few MGF's cruising around Adelaide now and they
>are all nice, solid metallic colours (blues and greens mostly).  Canary
>yellow with an orange stripe...?


Yep.  Never know what folks will do to a poor MG.  There was some fellar
what painted a couple of 'em funky, one dark green with a bright yellow
chin panel and the t'other dark green with a red chin panel.  They
were all modified and stuff, non-original body panels and other 
unspeakable acts.  Heck, he even went so far as to give 'em a
non-stock name:  MGC GTS.  ;)

When I was very young, my dad had an *orange* Bugeye, and his best 
bud had a *purple* one--late sixties/early seventies.  They used to
drive 'em side by side in one lane, must've killed the eyebones of
hundreds of poor drivers.

-Keith Wheeler
Team Sanctuary                  http://www.teamsanctuary.com/


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