- 1. Re: Power is good (short version) (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RParker@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:08:19 -0800
- Sounds like you had a great time regardless. I live in Chico, not far from Thunderhill, and take a motorcycle ride over there from time to time on Sunday mornings. Next time you're going to be there
- /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00490.html (7,254 bytes)
- 2. Re: Manufacturer's Profits at Buyer's Expense (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RParker@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:13:31 -0800
- I get the digest, so sometimes a thread goes a long way before I see any of it. And I should also say that I'm in a great hurry this morning and can't begin to say the things that come to mind after
- /html/mgs/2002-12/msg00195.html (9,248 bytes)
- 3. Re: "Why are there no listers from China?" (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <rparker@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:29:56 -0800
- Hmmm. Never occurred to me to wonder why there were no listers from China. Haven't noticed any from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Belize, Guatamala, Chile, or Myanmar either, now that I think about it. Son
- /html/mgs/2002-11/msg00012.html (7,116 bytes)
- 4. Re: LBC magic (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <rparker@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:50:36 -0700
- << . . . I thought about the day we had and, well, Jim's car isn't for sale Very nice story, Phil. Congratulations all 'round! Richard Parker Chico, Calif '62 MGA Mk II roadster /// or try http://www
- /html/mgs/2002-09/msg00475.html (7,073 bytes)
- 5. Re: Cop vs. LBC's (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <rparker@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:50:16 -0700
- I had a pick-up stolen last May. A nice young officer investigated, took down some details, left me his card, and filed a report. Two months later, a citizen called in about a truck that had not been
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00677.html (8,794 bytes)
- 6. Re: Anyone going to Chico, CA....??? (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <rparker@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:39:05 -0700
- I'm not exactly going to Chico, since I'm already there (for the last 30 years). I'm sending you some info off-list about next Sunday's All Brit Car Show. If anybody else wants it, just let me know.
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00590.html (6,923 bytes)
- 7. Re: Argh! Lost my MGA keys (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <rparker@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 13:59:59 -0700
- I'm in sympathy. I lost my main key a while back and have been meaning to get another spare (or two) cut. Thanks for the reminder!! Hope you get the problem solved. Richard '62 Mk II MGA Roadster '9
- /html/mgs/2002-05/msg00854.html (8,023 bytes)
- 8. Re: Bean ball (almost) (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <rparker@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:36:56 -0700
- " As one big rig roared by it kicked a metal plate up from the road. This plate flew up and over the MGA, clearing me and the car by only inches." Cripes. The moral here is: If you're not fast, at le
- /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00773.html (6,790 bytes)
- 9. Spin-on leaks (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:50:49 -0800
- I have a newly rebuilt 1622 engine in the MGA, and everything is working like a charm except: I installed an aftermarket spin-on oil filter adapter so the filters would be less of a pain in the what
- /html/mgs/2002-03/msg00160.html (7,432 bytes)
- 10. Re: MGA (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:42:37 -0800
- Lawrie, and others . . . I have a situation similar to Danny's, which you made a telling comment about yesterday. I have a Mk II MGA, and I bought (actually, a friend found and bought and I bought fr
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00220.html (7,565 bytes)
- 11. RE: MGA (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:03:24 -0800
- Thanks, Lawrie. I think I'll put the ones I've got up for sale and then buy some that I know will fit. Richard Parker Department of Philosophy California State University, Chico /// /// mgs@autox.tea
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00223.html (6,815 bytes)
- 12. Bonnet Lock (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:27:23 -0700
- Due to an igno-sec (as when you're slamming the car door and see your keys in the ignition an instant before the door slams and locks) the other evening, the bonnet of my MGA is locked tight as a dr
- /html/mgs/2001-08/msg00056.html (7,367 bytes)
- 13. Re: Bonnet latch (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 17:25:24 -0700
- Well, I got the bloody thing open, and, after some to do, fixed. Since the latch pin was never touched from the time the hood was taken off until the time it was put back on, I'm pretty sure I must h
- /html/mgs/2001-08/msg00138.html (7,744 bytes)
- 14. Bonnet Latch Revisited (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:28:00 -0700
- I sent the following message a week or so ago, but it never turned up on any of my digests as far as I could tell. It probably went out when the list was acting funny. I promised several people I'd r
- /html/mgs/2001-08/msg00359.html (8,069 bytes)
- 15. Re: Hagerty won't play with me anymore.... (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 12:56:05 -0700
- I'm with State Farm and pay $160 a year for my MGA. They give me 3,000 miles a year. I should point out that I have four cars and a motorcycle insured with them and have not run over anybody lately.
- /html/mgs/2001-05/msg00162.html (7,745 bytes)
- 16. Fw: 5 speed conversion (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 10:33:30 -0700
- Another new source for five-speed conversions is Ian Hamer, who lives in Manchester but spends much of his time here in my town in California. He's starting to import Ford Sierra gearboxes for about
- /html/mgs/2001-05/msg00327.html (7,119 bytes)
- 17. Engine compartment (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:55:04 -0700
- Looking for some advice, List: I have the engine out of my '62 MGA Mk II for a rebuild and want to spruce up the engine compartment before putting it back. I've chiseled thirty-nine years of grease a
- /html/mgs/2001-04/msg00175.html (8,031 bytes)
- 18. RE: Cruise (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:07:42 -0800
- I don't reckon I'd count as a disenfranchised liberal, but if I wanted to cause dissension, annoyance, and distraction on an automobile mailing list, I'd post a thoroughly unrelated, irrelevant, and
- /html/mgs/2001-02/msg00856.html (6,944 bytes)
- 19. 'Nuff said! (was: Cruise) (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:51:26 -0800
- Sorry, George (et al), if I jumped a bit quickly yesterday. The MG digest is something I turn to for education and a good bit of fun, and yesterday's arrived not too long after I'd been around the ed
- /html/mgs/2001-02/msg00909.html (7,713 bytes)
- 20. Positive/Negative (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:50:16 -0700
- I've just come into possession of an MGA Mk II, almost exactly like one I owned back in the middle sixties. I mean to make an almost daily driver out of it, and look forward to help from what looks
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00246.html (6,958 bytes)
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