Dan,
Somewhere, and I can't remember the source, someone rigged up a sleeve
(pipe of some description) that slipped over the handbrake and passed
over the gearshift shaft in such a way that a padlock could be clipped
on. With the car in 1st and the sleeve on the brake, the lever could not
be pulled out of first. Seemed like a good idea to me.
Finally--when I was a senior in HS, my parents let me get my licence.
My car was the trusty TD I still drive. My friends did what your son's
friends are doing. I never knew where I would find the car. TD has no
steering column lock, and one can hot wire it very easily. Of course,
that meant that they would move the car whenever they saw it, even if the
Old Man were using it that day. He would come home livid, having hiked
all over town looking for the car..... And, since it was my friends who
did the deed, I would be back on the bicycle at best, and grounded at
worst.
Bob
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:16:57 -0500 Dan Pockrus <dpockrus@efficient.com>
writes:
>
> I may have asked this before, but I've slept since then,
>so....
>
> Has there ever been a locking shifter for the MG? By locking,
>I mean
>a shifter which has a keylock on it that would allow one to lock the
>tranny
>in gear (usually reverse) using a key. I've seen other convertible
>cars that
>had one, but I've never seen or heard one mentioned for MG. Loyal son
>is
>having a hard time with people jumping in his car and pushing all over
>the
>parking lot at school.
>
>Dan Pockrus
>'74B about to be gleaming silver
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