- 121. Re: Now: Black is beautiful - was: Why is it so hard to choose (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:58:52 +0930
- My GT was black, and a lovely colour it is too. It hides the dirt!!!! Fair dinkum. My black GT needed less washing than my red roadster does. This is because the black comes through the dirt and inst
- /html/mgs/2001-04/msg00911.html (8,091 bytes)
- 122. Re: Need wheels trued (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:12:51 +1030
- My last lot of wire wheels was eight years ago...**sob**. The local MG shop had mounted a hub and spline on the wall and the wheel was balanced statically ie weighted until no point wanted to drop to
- /html/mgs/2001-03/msg00147.html (8,856 bytes)
- 123. Re: [SPOILER] Malaysian F1 Grand Prix (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:54:50 +1030
- micro-country, like San Marino or Monaco, in order to hold a second grand prix in the same country. We've already got one. It's called Queensland. Apparently they run some other funny car race there
- /html/mgs/2001-03/msg00912.html (8,369 bytes)
- 124. Re: Malaysian Grand Prix? (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:01:39 +1030
- Yup, you're definitely feeling grumpy today. Yeah, the F1s are off topic. It's more interesting than some topics we get though, but if you're not into F1, it'd be a bore. Hey, I'm enjoying the threa
- /html/mgs/2001-03/msg00914.html (7,733 bytes)
- 125. Re: List Archives (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:42:51 +1030
- - Why won't my MG start but I've been to lazy to actually have a look. - Gee, my MG blew a light, any idea why? There have been some bloody silly threads discussed ad nauseum at this place. Sometime
- /html/mgs/2001-03/msg00924.html (8,400 bytes)
- 126. Re: Engine sizes. WARNING: POTENTIAL HOLY WAR. (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:17:58 +1030
- G'day Chris, I don't want to talk engine capacities, because I think they are largely irrelevant in this question. You are building a daily driver, not a racer, so the long term life of the motor is
- /html/mgs/2001-03/msg01067.html (8,630 bytes)
- 127. MG Sighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:59:52 +0930
- TV news over the weekend - the big Japanese earthquake. Shot of a collapsed car park - collapsed onto a red, rubbernose midget. Car looked only lightly damaged, but the question arises, how do you ge
- /html/mgs/2001-03/msg01155.html (6,551 bytes)
- 128. Re: Earthquake proof midget (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:04:21 +0930
- Mark, that's the photo I saw, only on the news, it was colour and film - as opposed to a still. The colour is the same. If you look at this photo, the car appears to be crushed at first glance, but
- /html/mgs/2001-03/msg01171.html (7,687 bytes)
- 129. Re: Who is King of this List? (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:51:06 +1030
- Sacrifice the triumph and marry the virgin. Seriously, my last lot of emails came through with replies to posts I hadn't seen, so perhaps there are problems out there. You aren't by any chance sendi
- /html/mgs/2001-02/msg00202.html (7,337 bytes)
- 130. New Baby (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:26:24 +1030
- Hi Kids, Anne and Richard would like to announce the birth of their daughter this afternoon. Her name is Lauren, she weighed 7 lb and is absolutely gorgeous. Both mother and baby are doing well. Chee
- /html/mgs/2001-02/msg00773.html (7,179 bytes)
- 131. Re: Off-Topic: Copyright Reminder (related to Barney's DIY (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:32:06 +1030
- "born What Barney said was basically right. To add to it slightly. The USA has some of the most pathetic copyright laws in the world. Too many interest groups I guess. Let's face reality. If you bel
- /html/mgs/2001-01/msg00256.html (8,780 bytes)
- 132. Re: Race coverage, was: B's and TR4's (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:34:50 +1030
- Why gee guys. Here in Adelaide, we get live coverage of every F1 race - the full race. Well, they claim it's live, but it's funny how all the European races seem to start at the same time, in all st
- /html/mgs/2001-01/msg00757.html (7,464 bytes)
- 133. Re: Stirring the Pot... (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:01:12 +1030
- You really are stirring the pot by suggesting a BGT might not be quite right...Don't apologise for owning a GT, just ignore the heathen rag toppers and smile when your heater kicks in on a very cold
- /html/mgs/2001-01/msg00761.html (7,223 bytes)
- 134. Shameless plug (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:43:05 +1030
- Hi Kids, Just a shameless plug for my website - actually, it's just been uploaded so I'm interested if anyone has problems reading it or if any of the formatting looks a bit weird. Feedback would be
- /html/mgs/2001-01/msg00834.html (6,736 bytes)
- 135. Re: LHD to RHD (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:52:09 +1030
- a parts? The conversion from LHD to RHD is easy - it's done here in Oz all the time. We buy cheap B's from America and covert them. There are now more 'American' Bs roaming the streets of Adelaide t
- /html/mgs/2001-01/msg00866.html (9,383 bytes)
- 136. Re: B-GT restoration update (Boring content (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 16:36:35 +1030
- the water inner bottom of the Hah! Insignificant problems. Here in Australia, back in the seventies, Ford produced a model their Falcon with two different V8 engines. In the LTD version of one of th
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00150.html (8,402 bytes)
- 137. Re: Took the Plunge! (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:04:02 +1030
- Down Eric, Down! Cripes mate, the racing season has only just finished. If you are this jittery now, what will you be like in February? I prescribe many friday nights at the club, preferably as clos
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00156.html (8,099 bytes)
- 138. Re: Took the Plunge! (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:34:05 +1030
- Some years ago, when one of a pair of very competitive brothers in the club put a V8 in a disgusting yellow B, his brother became suspicious. You see, this yellow thing was beating the V8 TC everywh
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00164.html (8,046 bytes)
- 139. Re: 64 rolling shell. (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:47:18 +1030
- I'm no expert, but I'd be real careful of this one. It looks like it's in grey primer. How long has it been that way? Primer isn't water proof. I know of one bloke who ruined a TD restoration by lea
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00203.html (7,457 bytes)
- 140. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:50:00 +1030
- My old man rebuilt the engine on his Rugby using a screw wrench, a screw driver and a hammer. Mind you, when he taught me how to rebuild engines, we seemed to use a lot more spanners than that. Chee
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00204.html (8,197 bytes)
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