- 281. Re: Period performance (different perspective) (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:05:13 -0700 (PDT)
- ATWEDITOR@aol.com SEZ - (With deletions...) Well, the Mustang was built on the Ford Falcon chassis, and what was a Camaro? A Chevy Nova? Chevelle? Anyway, that's not exactly what you'd call a sportin
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00321.html (9,222 bytes)
- 282. Re: Period performance (different perspective) (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:56:58 -0700 (PDT)
- Max Heim SEZ - I really think that sports cars are a dieing category of cars. There are a few that I suppose would be "luxury" sports cars, like the MGF, Miata and Boxster, in that they pile on a lot
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00324.html (9,245 bytes)
- 283. Re: Period performance (different perspective) (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:40:52 -0700 (PDT)
- Aaron Whiteman SEZ - All the ads I've seen for them tout the Tiptronic transmission that shifts, from what I can tell, like a motorcycle. Up-up-up, down-down-down, with a little lever. Have they chan
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00331.html (8,574 bytes)
- 284. Re: Replacing dash (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:27:29 -0700 (PDT)
- Larry Colen SEZ - Wow, I'm surprised to hear this. I always thought that the "Abingdon Pillow" was the best-looking and most functional MGB dashboard, at least from the driver's perspective. Nice gau
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00444.html (8,071 bytes)
- 285. Re: Replacing dash (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:33:20 -0700 (PDT)
- Max Heim SEZ - Interesting. I never had any trouble seeing the gauges on my '68. I guess at the time I owned it, it was new enough that I didn't need to be rooting around behind the dash much. :-) Al
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00449.html (8,292 bytes)
- 286. Re: Replacing dash (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:34:46 -0700 (PDT)
- Charles & Peggy Robinson SEZ - It doesn't have cup holders either! :-) But it does have the map pocket on the passenger's side. -- David Breneman | "Advice is somethin' the Distributed Systems S/W An
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00477.html (7,591 bytes)
- 287. Re: Title woes. (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 08:22:59 -0700 (PDT)
- I think this is a case where you really need an attorney who knows the laws in your state. I'm just astonished that Ohio requires a Social Security number to register a car! There's *supposed* to be
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00512.html (8,916 bytes)
- 288. Re: Title woes (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:02:37 -0700 (PDT)
- Susan Rutherford SEZ - (With deletions...) Hey, we're almost neighbors! I live in Washington, and the DMV here proposed a similar solution for my MGA. What I would do is file an affidavit and have th
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00519.html (8,264 bytes)
- 289. Re: Cop vs. LBC's (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:51:03 -0700 (PDT)
- Charles & Peggy Robinson SEZ - It's hard to instill in people a respect for the rule of law when the laws are so capricious and their enforcement so arbitrary. Even here in the Little Soviet of Washi
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00640.html (9,529 bytes)
- 290. Re: Cop vs. LBC's (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:16:29 -0700 (PDT)
- Rick Lindsay SEZ - I'll probably end up installing belts in this car, too. Like I said, I've always worn seatbelts. But if this car is ever in an accident bad enough to require seatbelts, I'll probab
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00642.html (9,037 bytes)
- 291. Re: Legal Matters (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:36:08 -0700 (PDT)
- WSpohn4@aol.com SEZ - The biggest traffic problems where I live are people blowing stop signs, failing to yield the right of way, and turning without signalling. These are real traffic violations tha
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00726.html (9,665 bytes)
- 292. Re: Re: Front License Plates (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:40:02 -0700 (PDT)
- dmeadow@juno.com SEZ - (Deletions...) I paid $125 for a set of unissued 1958 Skamania County (Wash) plates for my MGA. But they *were* unissued, so they're perfect; and having two, I now have a spare
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00732.html (9,265 bytes)
- 293. Re: Cops vs.LBCs (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:27:44 -0700 (PDT)
- Rick Lindsay SEZ - (deletions...) Studies have been done with a lot more statistical rigor than I can remember or recite here, but they usually boil down to this: If you take the speed limit signs of
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00740.html (10,635 bytes)
- 294. Re: Cops vs.LBCs (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:57:21 -0700 (PDT)
- Stephen West-Fisher SEZ - The whole point of my message was that the laws are intentionally parasitic. There is no nobility in being a sucker, whether that's the law or not. Exactly. Those are the ty
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00752.html (9,243 bytes)
- 295. Driving Philosophies (Long) (Was: Re: Cops vs.LBCs) (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:01:55 -0700 (PDT)
- Charles & Peggy Robinson SEZ - There seem to be two mutually-incompatible views on this list about what constitutes a good driver. The first is that to be a good driver, you must exercise discretion
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00865.html (12,062 bytes)
- 296. Re: Driving Philosophies (Long) (Was: Re: Cops vs.LBCs) (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:21:31 -0700 (PDT)
- Leckstein SEZ - My grandfather taught me to always drive with your left tires slightly over the centerline unless a car is coming in the opposite direction, in which case you move completely into you
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00921.html (10,235 bytes)
- 297. Re: A cool thing about our cars (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:20:54 -0700 (PDT)
- Bob D. SEZ - My best friend's teenage sons found my MGA under its tarp a couple years ago and promptly dubbed it "The James Bond Car". Now that they're old enough to drive, and the MGA is getting res
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg01146.html (9,258 bytes)
- 298. Re: What would you drive? (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:51:32 -0700 (PDT)
- It's funny reading all these *non-MG* cars that supposed MG enthusiasts would buy! I'd want to get one of the big pre-war saloons, and a TC, and an MGB-V8 to go along with my MGA. And I'd keep the Bl
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg01197.html (9,156 bytes)
- 299. Re: Get your Mexican MGs across the border! (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:13:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Importing cars into the US is a spectacularly complicated proposition designed, primarily, to *prevent* people from importing cars into the US. There was a law proposed about 10 years ago that would
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg01247.html (7,735 bytes)
- 300. Re: What would you drive? (score: 1)
- Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:41:30 -0700 (PDT)
- Ajhsys@aol.com SEZ - Hey, those are utility vehicles needed to support the estate! -- David Breneman | "Before there were CDs there were Distributed Systems S/W Analyst | records, and before there we
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg01254.html (9,463 bytes)
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