- 1. Hypothetical question about driving a TC (score: 1)
- Author: hineline@helix.ucsd.edu (Mark Hineline)
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:57:14 -0700 (PDT)
- This question is hypothetical, because I do not now have a TC. But if I did have one -- and an MGTC is high up my life list of material wants -- I would want to drive it on back roads, primarily unpa
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- 2. Re: Hypothetical question about driving a TC (score: 1)
- Author: JagMkV@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:06:24 EDT
- As a TD owner as well as one who participated in a number of vintage races in a TC, I can tell you unequivocably that a TD handles far better than a TC. That said, a TC on a paved road can be a hand
- /html/mg-t/2000-07/msg00050.html (9,134 bytes)
- 3. Re: Hypothetical question about driving a TC (score: 1)
- Author: Dave and Liz DuBois <ddubois@sinclair.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:16:42 -0700
- My initial reaction to your question of a TC on unpaved or logging roads was NO WAY!!! Then I got to thinking of the many books that I have that shows TC and older MGs in hill climb competitions in
- /html/mg-t/2000-07/msg00051.html (8,284 bytes)
- 4. Re: Hypothetical question about driving a TC (score: 1)
- Author: PMS GB Ltd <100070.740@compuserve.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 03:58:31 -0400
- Message text written by INTERNET:ddubois@sinclair.net roads was NO WAY!!! Then I got to thinking............. < The TA B and TC are well siuted to a certain form of off road sport, i.e. off road tria
- /html/mg-t/2000-07/msg00053.html (8,286 bytes)
- 5. Re: Hypothetical question about driving a TC (score: 1)
- Author: MGTD1952@cs.com
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 06:00:13 EDT
- << The cars (all of them) were made to be driven (even hard, in competition), so why not drive them. I had a similar reaction to Dave, and then recalled all the trials pictures in the various books a
- /html/mg-t/2000-07/msg00054.html (8,228 bytes)
- 6. Re: Hypothetical question about driving a TC (score: 1)
- Author: hineline@helix.ucsd.edu (Mark Hineline)
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 03:58:49 -0700 (PDT)
- Many thanks for all of the considered answers to my question. I see now that there are two questions, really: one is, how prudent is it to take a 50+ year old automobile off paved roads? And the answ
- /html/mg-t/2000-07/msg00055.html (8,114 bytes)
- 7. Re: Hypothetical question about driving a TC (score: 1)
- Author: "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:00:17 -0700
- As perhaps one of the oldest born-in-England listers, may I address the implied misperception that most roads in England at the time of the first MGs were dirt roads. My early years (during the war a
- /html/mg-t/2000-07/msg00056.html (9,311 bytes)
- 8. Re: Hypothetical question about driving a TC (score: 1)
- Author: rjs <rjs@computan.on.ca>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:41:53 -0400
- Hi! In 1970 when I was driving both a TC and aTD, a favourite pastime was spending Sunday afternoon "Going MGing" A friend would join me in his TD and armed with a long rope we would head off onto th
- /html/mg-t/2000-07/msg00058.html (8,675 bytes)
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