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To: "Rick Brown" <mgrick@ptd.net>, "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Damn, Damn Damn
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 00:55:27 -0500
Well Rick
Back to the drawing board. I think I may have turned a rod bearing in the 
Artero this AM - just when I was getting ready to put it on the old 
auction block of eBay, so I would rather have your problem. ;-)

Larry

>>>>On 1/3/00 9:31 PM so and so (Rick Brown) said. (And I quote:)

>This morning drove the BGT as usual to the park-&-Ride to catch my bus
>into NYC.  While backing into the parking space i heard a ***crunch*** -
>"OH NO" says I! Get out to check what I did, fearing the worst,  Hmmmm
>No bady damage! Lights are still intact! But the Muffler was hanging! I
>had backed too far and the muffler pipe hit the guardrail which surronds
>the parking lot and broke both the rear hanger and the middle one. 
>Tried to tie it up so I could drive it home tonight but I couldnt get it
>to raise high enough to make it drivable.  I have a feeling I may have
>bent the downpipes.  I haven't put it up on ramps yet to completely
>assess the damages.  I hope I didnt crack the manifold!
>
>This was a new stainless system which I put on in September - I have had
>it off the car three times since then to try and fix an exhaust leak
>which has been persistent since I put it on.  I finally fixed it just
>last Saturday (it was caused by two bent studs where the pipe and
>manifold meet).
>
>Now I have to start all over again! DAMN! NOT a good start to the new
>Millenium!
>
>Rick 
>74 BGT (daily driver-now garage bound)
>61 MGA 1600


Larry Macy
78 Midget

Keep your top down and your chin up.

Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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