- 1. Warning: dead possum story (was Re: MG enthusiasts aren't always human) (score: 1)
- Author: "M.P. Trebelhorn" <mpt3265@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 17:57:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Two springs ago, I found a 'possum in my '70 MGB, which was then, as now, my daily driver. Someone spotted the critter in my urban neighborhood and called animal control. The poor thing decided that
- /html/mgs/1998-05/msg00473.html (8,537 bytes)
- 2. Re: Mazda engines (no LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: "M.P. Trebelhorn" <mpt3265@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 18:09:16 -0400 (EDT)
- Unless, of course, it's a pre-92 Miata, in which case a broken crank at under 100k is not unheard-of. They tried to make it a *little* bit lighter and a *little* bit smaller, and ended up making it
- /html/mgs/1998-05/msg00474.html (7,462 bytes)
- 3. Re: Gear Stick Vibration/Rattle (score: 1)
- Author: "M.P. Trebelhorn" <mpt3265@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 17:27:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Also, if the three bolts which hold the gear lever in place (hold down the plate which sandwiches it to the aluminum housing) are loose, then the symptoms can be similar. Take off the shift boot & t
- /html/mgs/1998-05/msg01526.html (8,408 bytes)
- 4. MGB Starter: Help! (score: 1)
- Author: "M.P. Trebelhorn" <mpt3265@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 14:15:16 -0500 (EST)
- Okay, here's the situation: '70 MGB, intermittent starter failure. Twisting the key will always trip the relay, which will *not* always engage the solenoid. Three basic modes: 1 (95% of the time) Tur
- /html/mgs/1998-04/msg00072.html (7,680 bytes)
- 5. Re: The next MG (score: 1)
- Author: "M.P. Trebelhorn" <mpt3265@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:40:23 -0500 (EST)
- Well, I currently drive the only RWD car in the family, a 1970 MGB. (well, only RWD daily driver, anyway) I live in Rochester, NY, where non-el-nino winters rack up better than 10 feet of snow per se
- /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00716.html (8,270 bytes)
- 6. Re: NON-LBC - Opel GT Question (score: 1)
- Author: "M.P. Trebelhorn" <mpt3265@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:48:20 -0500 (EST)
- Opinions adn speculation, coming right up. Chuck Jordan, who ran the styling department at Opel in those days, was in fact a Ferrari fan, and had in his garage at the time the most beautiful car eve
- /html/mgs/1998-03/msg00720.html (7,970 bytes)
- 7. Re: Choke, Battery, Etc. (score: 1)
- Author: "M.P. Trebelhorn" <mpt3265@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:27:37 -0500 (EST)
- This strikes me as unreasonably long. Here in Rochester, NY, where the weekend brought lows in the teens or single digits and six inches of snow, my 'B will start on 2 or 3 seconds of cranking. (whe
- /html/mgs/1998-03/msg01232.html (7,669 bytes)
- 8. Re: Was some legal mumbo jumbo but is now "Most Bizarre Suicide" (score: 1)
- Author: "M.P. Trebelhorn" <mpt3265@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 14:33:01 -0500 (EST)
- Homicide often takes stories from the press, though -- usually from Baltimore (land of pleasant living) but sometimes from wherever they can find bizarre material. It actually happens pretty often t
- /html/mgs/1998-02/msg00493.html (9,105 bytes)
- 9. Re: a survey of character ... (fwd) (score: 1)
- Author: "M.P. Trebelhorn" <mpt3265@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:09:58 -0500 (EST)
- Class win at LeMans. 1964, I think, and I know that the car was a hardtopped-roadster with a fender/ hood (okay, bonnet) arrangement I've never seen anywhere else -- a long droopy nose, with a small
- /html/mgs/1998-02/msg00634.html (7,555 bytes)
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