- 121. Re: What a weekend (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:38:47 -0700 (PDT)
- Hans Duinhoven SEZ - Sometimes a gauge doesn't help. Way back when I was in high school, a friend's parents bought a Mercedes 300D. This was when Mercedes was really starting to make a push in the US
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00584.html (8,182 bytes)
- 122. Re: Center console help (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:27:59 -0700 (PDT)
- Paul M. SEZ - You're not crazy. I had a 1968 MGB and I liked the look. The earlier dash always looked too "50s" to me, for what is on the outside a very 60s-looking car. In fact I'd go so far as to s
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00631.html (9,017 bytes)
- 123. Re: Center console help (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 09:24:05 -0700 (PDT)
- Max Heim SEZ - Oh, I was around in the 60s alright. Even though I wasn't old enough to drive. Certainly aesthetics are in the eye of the beholder, and I didn't write what I did to try to convince any
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00656.html (10,066 bytes)
- 124. Re: MGB tonneau bars ? (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 09:33:51 -0700 (PDT)
- These bars are essential on cars with stowable tops, and they provide a great deal of hidden stowage space when the tonneau cover is snapped in the "open" position. I would think that even with a fol
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00745.html (7,567 bytes)
- 125. Re: Fast and Furious (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 12:52:33 -0700 (PDT)
- Lambdin, Mike SEZ - Do they still sell the stuffed cat with lightbulb eyes that come on with the tail lights? One of my favorite products from the 70s was the fake antenna to "Give your car the CB Lo
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00813.html (9,146 bytes)
- 126. Re: British Motoring (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:37:54 -0700 (PDT)
- Dodd, Kelvin SEZ - So, Kelvin, other than its amusement value :-) why is your picture featured? I was expecting to see you'd written an editorial or something (like the articles you've written before
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00850.html (8,081 bytes)
- 127. Re: [LBC but no MG] Pretty spiffy new car... (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 13:46:15 -0700 (PDT)
- Rick Brown SEZ - Well, if you accept the Morgan premise that the "traditional" sports car form is a legitimate styling basis in the 21st century, it seems to be a logical progression of what they've
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00863.html (8,214 bytes)
- 128. Re: cigarette lighter in positive ground (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 08:23:50 -0700 (PDT)
- MonteMorris SEZ - That's it. Most DC power supplies are polarity sensitive. Unlike AC, which changes polarity with each cycle, most CD circuits will (best case) not work or (worst case) self destruct
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00882.html (8,319 bytes)
- 129. Re: Failed MA inspection (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:30:13 -0800 (PST)
- Charles & Peggy Robinson SEZ - You know, up until the 19th century, when humans began pumping oil out of the ground as a replacement for whale oil in lanterns, there were many places in the world whe
- /html/mgs/2003-04/msg00013.html (8,347 bytes)
- 130. Re: Failed MA inspection (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:27:06 -0800 (PST)
- Michael W. Jose SEZ - You're lucky that you have that option. Here in the People's Republic of Washington, one of the things they check is the idle speed. They put a little beanbag-like thing with an
- /html/mgs/2003-04/msg00020.html (8,536 bytes)
- 131. Re: OFF TOPIC but useful (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:14:26 -0800 (PST)
- Barrie Robinson SEZ - "demime" will convert incoming mail messages to plaintext. I've not set it up yet on our depratmental mail server, but I'm planning on doing so. Lots of mailing lists use it. --
- /html/mgs/2003-04/msg00123.html (7,431 bytes)
- 132. Re: How To Take Along A One-Year Old In An MGB [getting pretty (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 13:10:07 -0800 (PST)
- Hugh Wolfe SEZ - I noticed way back in the 70s, when I first got my MGB, that many drivers didn't pay much attention to me, no matter what they were driving - and there wasn't much you could call an
- /html/mgs/2003-04/msg00154.html (9,012 bytes)
- 133. Re: How To Take Along A One-Year Old In An MGB [getting (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 05:44:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Rocky Frisco SEZ - I never carry a loaded gun in the car for the simple reason that nearly every day I encounter another driver I'd gladly shoot dead. Who needs that legal hassle? :-) -- David Brenem
- /html/mgs/2003-04/msg00191.html (7,429 bytes)
- 134. Re: what car was it? (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:19:19 -0700 (PDT)
- Stephen West-Fisher SEZ - Was that the Fiat Spyder? I can't believe that at one time in the 70s I actually considered buying an X-1/9. (X/1-9?) -- David Breneman | "Just because something doesn't Dis
- /html/mgs/2003-04/msg00203.html (8,262 bytes)
- 135. Re: Big Bore (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:04:05 -0700 (PDT)
- WSpohn4@aol.com SEZ - That's certainly an improvement over a society where only the criminals (in and out of government) have them. -- David Breneman | "Just because something doesn't Distributed Sys
- /html/mgs/2003-04/msg00214.html (7,089 bytes)
- 136. Re: MGB makes a pilgrimage! (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:26:48 -0700 (PDT)
- R. Martin Rogovein SEZ - (With vast deletions...) I think I'm like most Americans, who don't think of the middle east as anything but desert and sand dunes. This really sounds like a great drive. It
- /html/mgs/2003-04/msg00247.html (8,833 bytes)
- 137. Re: MGB makes a pilgrimage! (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:04:37 -0700 (PDT)
- Charles & Peggy Robinson SEZ - In 1978 a friend and I drove my 68 MGB from the Tacoma area to Palm Springs and back. What is that, about 1200 miles each way? On the way down we took 101 from Astoria
- /html/mgs/2003-04/msg00310.html (9,182 bytes)
- 138. Re: Carburetors for MGB (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:39:09 -0700 (PDT)
- Aeseeyou@aol.com SEZ - Whoever told you "horror stories" about SUs obviously didn't know what he was talking about. SU carburetors are a model of ingenious simplicity. Five moving parts: 1) Piston, 2
- /html/mgs/2003-04/msg00313.html (9,038 bytes)
- 139. Re: Carburetors for MGB (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:06:12 -0700 (PDT)
- Marc Siegel SEZ - Well, anybody can *break* something to the point it won't work! :-) -- David Breneman | "Just because something doesn't Distributed Systems S/W Analyst | do what you planned it to d
- /html/mgs/2003-04/msg00315.html (8,355 bytes)
- 140. Re: MGA tonneaus (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:17:09 -0700 (PDT)
- Bullwinkle SEZ - I'll take a look. My car is actually a 1500, which has a "mostly 1600" set of studs. That is, the studs on the cowl are like those on a 1600, and there are no studs on the tops of th
- /html/mgs/2003-04/msg00532.html (8,398 bytes)
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