- 1. NC MGB siting -- someone here? (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:43:49 -0400
- This afternoon I passed someone in a green chrome-bumpered MGB in Archdale, NC, at the corner of 62 and Archdale Road. Is that anyone here on the list? -- Keith Gernert 79 MGB -- /// /// mgs@autox.te
- /html/mgs/2001-07/msg00612.html (6,480 bytes)
- 2. Shocks and lowering a rubber-bumpered B (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:48:13 -0400
- Hi all, I've considered installing a lowering kit on my 79 B sometime in the future. Would this preclude me from installing tube shocks at the rear before then? Or do shocks having nothing to do with
- /html/mgs/2001-07/msg00838.html (6,918 bytes)
- 3. Stainless braided brake lines--OK for street? (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:52:18 -0400
- Hi all, I've noticed that the catalog listings for stainless steel braided brake hoses usually say "for off-road use only". My question is, why? Is it just because they are so different from the orig
- /html/mgs/2001-06/msg00258.html (7,286 bytes)
- 4. MGB siting in a commercial (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 15:08:12 -0400
- I was sitting around watching TV the other evening and noticed a commercial that had an MGB in it. The ad is for USA Today, and the spot features a woman in a chrome-bumpered MGB, top down, stuck in
- /html/mgs/2001-06/msg00474.html (6,700 bytes)
- 5. 79B dash vents always open? (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 20:39:36 -0500
- Well, I just tried searching the list archives, but I got some kind of "internal script" error. So I'll ask my question here. With the advent of the cooler weather, I've noticed that the center dash
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00138.html (6,819 bytes)
- 6. MGB siting in Greensboro -- anyone here? (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 07:48:02 -0500
- Yesterday afternoon (Wednesday 11/15) at about 1:40 PM I spotted through my office window in downtown Greensboro a red MGB, chrome-bumpered, suitably topdown even in cool weather. Is that anyone here
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00687.html (6,528 bytes)
- 7. The sounds you hear with the top up (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:25:56 -0400
- The last few days have been uncharacteristically chilly here in North Carolina, so I've been driving my 79B with the top up. It just shouldn't be that way here in early September. Anyway, with the to
- /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00296.html (7,446 bytes)
- 8. OD transmission and timing switch (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 07:29:44 -0400
- I noticed by accident a while back that my 79B with overdrive transmission better when I have the shifter in 3rd gear. Place the shifter in 1st, and the thing definitely idles worse. I'm guessing the
- /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00463.html (7,451 bytes)
- 9. Re: RIP R&T (or what happened to Road&Track?) (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:28:09 -0400
- Regarding Road & Track: I have to admit I'm disappointed with the number of pages over the last few years. I started subscribing in the late 70s, and I remember getting some issues that were rather h
- /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00740.html (9,993 bytes)
- 10. Re: Pictures from Colorado English Motoring Conclave: (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:33:59 -0400
- Andrew, thanks for posting the pics. I enjoyed looking through them. A lot of great MGs there. I've always had a thing for the Lotus Seven and Minis, so those pics were appreciated. And how did that
- /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00741.html (7,584 bytes)
- 11. Re: One Bummer of an MG Summer (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 23:16:00 -0400
- Sorry to hear about that, Tom. But my advice, too, is to just drive the thing. This is my first summer with my B, too, and this week was the first time I drove it in the rain. (Bought the car last Fa
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00159.html (10,328 bytes)
- 12. Oil dipstick seal (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:04:59 -0400
- I think I read somewhere that a good seal around the oil dipstick is essential maintain good vacuum in the engine. (I think I got that right--this is well outside my area of experience or knowledge.)
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00666.html (6,921 bytes)
- 13. MGs in music (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:04:44 -0400
- Hi all, Earlier today I was listening to an MP3 of Bobby Bloom's song "Montego Bay". While I've heard the song numerous times, this is probably the first time I've heard it in headphones. And I just
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00668.html (6,709 bytes)
- 14. RE: Tach, etc. cutting out (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:13:33 -0400
- My thanks to all who replied to my question about my tach, fuel gauge, and turn signals all cutting out periodically. The consensus was a fuse box connector was flaky, so I pulled most of them off an
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00669.html (6,575 bytes)
- 15. Re: carb rebuild problems (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:53:12 -0400
- Could you elaborate on "cannot put it back"? I was considering removing the auto choke from my ZS carb this weekend for general cleaning, lubrication, etc., but now I'm having second thoughts. -- Kei
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00695.html (6,844 bytes)
- 16. Re: Oil dipstick seal (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:53:12 -0400
- [snip] Thanks for setting me straight on that, Max. At this point it seems I have nothing to worry about. -- Keith Gernert 79 MGB --
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00696.html (6,965 bytes)
- 17. Re: Road & Track Sing MG's praises (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:51:12 -0400
- That was the first article I read when my Road & Track arrived. It was titled "OpenAir Memories", with a great subtitle starting "Inspiration is often only a couple of windshield-header latches away.
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00725.html (8,521 bytes)
- 18. MGB siting -- someone here? (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:56:32 -0400
- This afternoon on my commute home I spotted (and waved to) a blue MGB going south on Rt. 311 in Archdale, NC. Is that anyone here on the list? -- Keith G.
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00843.html (6,430 bytes)
- 19. Re: Dream Cruise (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:01:38 -0400
- Enjoy it, Gordon. The Dream Cruise is one of things I miss about Detroit having moved from there last fall. That and the Meadowbrook Concours and vintage racing. And the big Detroit Auto Show. And th
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg01109.html (6,614 bytes)
- 20. Re: Your age vs. Your Babys age [LBC related - No Tech] (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:25:36 -0400
- I'm 37, and drive a 21-year-old MGB ('79). And it seems so weird to me to that a 1979 car is 21 years old! -- Keith Gernert 79 MGB --
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg01140.html (8,764 bytes)
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