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AUinHsv

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  1. and it's time to choose the "correct" shade of Iris Blue for my MGA. The shop sent 3 samples and I am not sure any are what I remember the car being. I asked if we could take a time out until June when the national MGA club meets in Memphis. I could drive over and compare a lot easier. On the other hand no one knows exactly what the shade of Iris Blue was 60 years ago. Most paint codes have changed and the original was methyl cellulose based.
  2. Good ole Lucas - inventor of intermittent wiper. Corporate motto - be home before dark
  3. So you are digging the masterpiece for no reason other you wanted to? Have you considered some products from our new sponsor instead of manual labor?
  4. Could we get just a little more detail on this issue
  5. Growing up in Huntsville we had Picadilly and Britlings cafeterias. One of the Britlings was next door to the largest Baptist church. More than one other church played the BBB game - a minister described it as - we end the sermon at 10:45 to Beat the Baptists to Britlings.
  6. Just tossing out that the head of Apple went to Auburn. No idea if that changes anything or not in terms of getting SEC.
  7. Everything is short lived compared to clever's attempted hole. He must have worked on Boston's Big Dig in another life
  8. It's not a good position to be in this year - if you need a QB. There are a large number of them but no Joe Borrow or Trevor Lawrence - consensus number 1's. Gotta hand it to Carolina for having guts to trade in a year like this
  9. I drove my first one for 10 years - five as primary car. Sold it and bought a Miata in 1990.
  10. Using a classic shop in Holland Michigan. Quote is around 20K which is huge but it includes a lot of body work before painting. I probably could have saved a few grand by doing it locally but I didn;t know anyone and in this case the people doing the restoration know the shops and have complete control of the process
  11. You have to be kinda crazy to drive at anything resembling speed limit with that racing windscreen. In other news my MGA is somewhere in the body shop getting prepped for paint
  12. Until the early 90's with 2 divisions that was what Auburn had every year almost back/back/back. Auburn, Georgia and Florida played a mini round robin starting Halloween every year. Auburn got Florida then Georgia, someone for homecoming and then Alabama. Coach Dye called it Amen Corner
  13. Changing the water pump on a 73 Vega on the side of the road was unbelievably easy. hardest part was waiting for Dad to show up with new pump
  14. You forgot the important step - the plastic housing breaks in half.. I have a spare on the shelf for that reason
  15. From my comment on page 1 - back in May Exactly... I second the use of explosives and video
  16. I guess they fixed the traction control software. I had one as rental about ten years ago and it would not move from a flat parking space. My 01 was a big improvement over the early 3Gen's. Someone on the forum described traction control as "Toyota decided they wanted to kill every driver of 4Runner so they added traction control and ABS"
  17. The Midget was what the name implied. No clue why British Leyland decided to make a smaller MG than the MGB. It was about 10% smaller in general and really had no redeeming qualities.
  18. That is a LOT of information on one dial
  19. Finally getting ready to send to paInt shop. It's being worked on in north Michigan since the shop specializes in British cars. I posted a while back but it's been in the family since 1980 but sat under a deck for almost 20 years. I got it from my brothers estate and it needed everything mechanical and a lot of body work. On and off for 2-3 years and getting near the end. Keep learning things about it - someone before 1980 had run the front end into something and that took a lot of sheet metal work. Dad painted it in early 80's but never totally fixed the front end damage. Also apparently someone switched some of the rims. Had correct 1962 rims on rear and incorrect 1955+ rims on front. No clue why. The two are very similar though
  20. Very fancy but good grief. You would need to be a small business to recover the cost of that setup. My setup might be 15 bucks - rubber holder for shaft, knife blade and large glass container to recapture solvent. I think I mentioned that I once did my woods in a Residence Inn hotel room with a kitchen knife
  21. No idea why I saved a single photo from 18 years ago but I am glad I did. Was thinking how to use it in the thread when someone else asked. Kinda shows the power of Surly. One person had the text and another the photo. There was another photo a little later I really wish I had. Someone else ran into Leach at a museum in Key West and had a really cool picture of him sitting in a pirate chair staring down the camera. That photo would be perfect now
  22. tried to edit but time had expired so reposting for background. On the sub at Pearl his son's hat blew off. Leach walked past the security people and rummaged in a storage are for the pole with a net and then walked past them again to fish the hat out. Basically Leach being Leach and marching to his own drum
  23. I think so. I saved the picture. It was described as a ridiculous long pole and correct
  24. I knew you had an MGA (I still have one) but also a Vega? if you also had a Corvair we just hit for the cycle
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