- 1. Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Buchanan <buchanan@preferred.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 22:30:47 -0500
- A little exercize for you listers. If you were going to take a 3000 mile trip in your MGB, what parts would you take with you??? Tom Buchanan buchanan@preferred.com http://www.preferred.com/~buchanan
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01289.html (7,331 bytes)
- 2. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: "J. Neil Doane" <root@yeah.indstate.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 22:45:26 -0600 (CST)
- Great question! I've got a friend in Seattle and I've toyed with the idea of heading west to visit (from Indiana!!), but I figgured it'd just be too hard on the little 'B. ...do people actually _make
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01291.html (8,259 bytes)
- 3. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: bugide@juno.com (Larry Dickstein)
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:09:06 EST
- I'd make sure I had a cooler, a cellular phone and a AAA Plus Card. You can wing the rest of it. Larry Dickstein bugide@juno.com There is no problem that cannot be solved with either a checkbook or h
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01295.html (7,761 bytes)
- 4. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Lishego <mikesl@tartan.sapc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:23:15 -0800
- Without sounding like everybody else, I would take, in no particular order: 1 new/rebuilt starter 1 new/rebuilt alternator 1 toolbox, fully stocked 1 soldering iron, solder, and shrink wrap 1 extensi
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01296.html (8,724 bytes)
- 5. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: "Christopher G. Moog" <cgmoog@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:30:18 -0500
- Skip the start you can push start it
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01297.html (7,501 bytes)
- 6. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:45:13 +0000
- Your favorite LBC catalog The roster (with phone numbers) from your car club. Folding canvas chairs and a good book. Tools: Harbor Freight or Northern has a $7 tool bag which looks like a really big
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01301.html (7,909 bytes)
- 7. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Landy <plandy@idt.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 01:27:08 -0800
- Haven't seen anyone suggest a good CB setup. They come mighty handy when lost or stranded. Cell phone is great for 911 calls but on back roads truckers might get help faster. I carry both. Even bette
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01303.html (8,002 bytes)
- 8. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: drded@ix.netcom.com (David Deutsch)
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:08:31 -0600 (CST)
- mile The most useful thing you can have on a trip of that distance is a cell Phone, AAA plus card and your North American MGB Register "Service Recommendations & Membership List". With these three th
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01309.html (8,774 bytes)
- 9. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 97 09:00:20 -0500
- Yep A CB is great. Broke a tranny in nowhere No Carolina one night about 11:30 little to no traffic. Got a trucker on the CB and a little while later had both a Highway Patrol and a tow truck. Wasn'
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01312.html (8,936 bytes)
- 10. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 97 09:00:18 -0500
- We took a 2000 mi trip last summer. I took a full set of tools, some extra wire, some extra water lines, fuel line and of a VB an Moss catalog. No spare tire, new tires and tubes on wires. Larry Mac
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01313.html (9,024 bytes)
- 11. RE: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: "doug russell" <dr-doug@classic.msn.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 97 14:52:17 UT
- Amen brother Larry. However, I would add duct tape and a BFH. Dr. Doug I'd make sure I had a cooler, a cellular phone and a AAA Plus Card. You can wing the rest of it. Larry Dickstein bugide@juno.com
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01319.html (9,026 bytes)
- 12. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: "John J. Peloquin" <peloquin@mamba.bio.uci.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:50:14 -0800 (PST)
- Dear Netters, When I was in college in the early '70's my buddy (now deceased) Tom Wilson from Yakima WA and I took his yellow mgb 1970 roadster (OD) on a 400 mile road trip fduring the thanksgiving
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01320.html (8,958 bytes)
- 13. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: "John J. Peloquin" <peloquin@mamba.bio.uci.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:59:49 -0800 (PST)
- My buddy, Tom wilson, drove his 1970 mgb to South Bend In and back to Yakima Washington each summer and christmas vacation while he was in college. He never had any trouble he couldn't handle. Of cou
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01324.html (9,316 bytes)
- 14. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: Lane Rollins <laner@teleport.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:33:50 -0800
- Why not???? I've taken the '55 TF on several 2000+ mile trips! Yes, under it's own power. I live in Portland, Oregon and it's been to all the GoF West's the last few years Lake Tahoe, Ventura, Calge
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01325.html (9,228 bytes)
- 15. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: mmcewen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (John McEwen)
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:49:42 -0500
- Hi Tom: I would take a cell phone, a gold card and a shop manual so that the runny-nosed kid who comes to take the car away will be able to show the "mechanic" at Harry's Mechanix and Bottle Depot wh
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01327.html (9,148 bytes)
- 16. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:03:52 +0000
- 2500 miles in five days round Britain in 76, similar distance to south-west France and back this year, never missed a beat despite two days of torrential rain on the French trip. Planning 3500 or so
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01337.html (8,543 bytes)
- 17. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: Leckstein <bleckstein@mail.monmouth.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 06:33:35 -0500
- General Comments. The condition of the car. The problem is most often the lack of regular use. I've been on six extended NEMGTR trips up to 7500 miles. The cars that have trouble are, the ones just o
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01341.html (10,763 bytes)
- 18. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: Tyson Sherman <tsherman@tecinfo.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:17:13 -0600
- Funny you mention Cavaliers. Today on my 70 mi round trip(far from 1000) I saw a dead Cavalier on the side of the road. There were also two other dead cars on the shoulder. All three were newer than
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01343.html (8,101 bytes)
- 19. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Brown <mgrick@ptd.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:45:57 -0800
- Well Ive driven my 61 MGA 1600 roadster from New Jersey to Indianapolis, from New Jersey to Grand Rapids, Michigan (Twists summer party) and on the return trip from GR drove to Ottawa Canada for a fe
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01344.html (8,717 bytes)
- 20. Re: Exercize (score: 1)
- Author: Art Pfenninger <ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 19:12:48 -0500 (EST)
- To the list I would add a length of wire. Recently I had a tail pipe break off from the muffler. I had two choices remove the tail pipe(being dressed for work I didn't want to crawl under the car) or
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01346.html (8,547 bytes)
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