Hmmm... a car cover?
My observation is that it is spiders that are particularly fond of my MG. I
often find webs enshrouding my steering wheel, and festooned across the
passenger footwell.
Certain varieties seem to be adapted to living in brake parts. One would
think the centrifugal forces, or at least the heat, would deter them, but
there they are, every time I take a wheel off.
This isn't on a "barn" car, either -- it is what passes for my daily driver
(though I don't drive every day, necessarily).
Live and let live, I figure...
on 11/4/03 5:45 PM, Glenn Schnittke at schnittke@mindspring.com wrote:
> At least it's Britcar content. I'll try to make it MG content.
>
> Since Jeanette got her Jag, we've noticed the car has an affinity for
> insects. I think it's the color (willow green).
>
> First we started finding green grasshoppers on the car when we'd come out
> to get in. Then small praying mantis's's's'eses (what IS the plural?). Then
> one day she's driving along and a walking stick (?) flies in the window.
> Now we find box elder bugs infesting it. Open back door; see a huddle of
> box elders on the outer side of the rubber. They don't bother the redcar.
> The BIRDS tend to like IT. I can't seem to find anyplace to park it at work
> where I don't come out to drive home and find it covered in bird shit.
> (Obligatory MG content.)
>
> Anyone have any ideas about insect murdering substances that won't also
> murder leather and cloth?
>
> Glenn
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> Glenn Schnittke
> VP - Tennsessee Spokes Sports Car Club
> schnittke@mindspring.com
> '67 B (my daily driver)
> '71 XJ6 Series I (Jeanette's daily driver)
> dead '69 B
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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