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1. Late Seventies B for sale, California (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 15:55:30 -0800; A friend of mine has a 1979 MGB for sale. It's orange with a black interior, has very little rust except along the front of the bonnet, needs a top. All the smog pieces are intact and on the car. It; /html/mgs/1995-04/msg00051.html (7,266 bytes)
2. Sniglets (was re: Todd's Questions) (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 16:52:18 -0800; Well, technically it's just "acronym," when you mean a word made up from initials, like SOL or NASA or PCMCIA (which stands for People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms, of course, and thank; /html/mgs/1995-04/msg00080.html (7,974 bytes)
3. Re: Electrical question (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 16:22:27 -0800; That's not an electrical question, it's an ignition question. An electrical question on these cars means something like, "When I turn the lights on, the car makes this funny gurgling noise from behin; /html/mgs/1995-04/msg00081.html (10,178 bytes)
4. Re: Silly Little MGB Questions (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 13:52:13 -0800; They're neat if you live somewhere that's very hot and very sunny. I have been known to put the top up while parked, but leave the rear window zipped out. That way the seats don't get scaldingly hot; /html/mgs/1995-04/msg00082.html (9,986 bytes)
5. Re: Electrical question (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 10:15:02 -0800; And the duck drops down and gives the man a hundred dollars! Actually, I have boiled all the water out of at least one battery, on Highway 1 about 26 miles north of Cambria (where?), roughly in line; /html/mgs/1995-04/msg00097.html (8,023 bytes)
6. Of Island Nations Saved by Divine Storms (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 11:15:07 -0800; (Kim -- here's one for Over The Windscreen -- Scott) I must be one-a them weirdo California types who's into Ethnic Diversity. I've got four cars -- the MGB, a 1963 Volvo 122S that my wife uses as da; /html/mgs/1995-04/msg00141.html (13,374 bytes)
7. Re: HELP MGB Tranny Dissasembly (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:06:29 -0700; Filoli Tour Just to remind everyone, we're still having the Filoli Estate Garden Tour and Mountain Road Extravaganza on April 29, in Woodside California. We'll be leaving from the Palo Alto Elks Lodg; /html/mgs/1995-04/msg00288.html (7,613 bytes)
8. Top 10 List of Reasons to Own an M.G. (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 16:47:21 -0800; 10. You decided that you liked building model cars better than having them, because they didn't go anywhere or do anything, so you bought a full-sized car that you're constantly building on, and it d; /html/mgs/1995-03/msg00044.html (8,401 bytes)
9. Re: MGs in the press (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 12:05:27 -0800; The power figures are as quoted, but there's more than carburetion at work here. In 1973 the compression ratio dropped with the introduction of the 18V motor, which also lost its inner valve springs.; /html/mgs/1995-03/msg00056.html (9,634 bytes)
10. Rational Enthusiasm (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 12:15:41 -0800; or, Why I Get Grouchy When I Can't Drive My M.G. Recently, Will Zehring quoted a line out of an article about the MGB that ended with the line, "what more could the rational enthusiast ask for?" Some; /html/mgs/1995-03/msg00064.html (9,526 bytes)
11. Re: SU carb styles (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 15:09:43 -0800; I've observed that 80% of what most people perceive as wrong with SU carbs is probably traceable to the age of the carbs, not their design. Swapping from old SUs to new ones on The Green Car cured th; /html/mgs/1995-03/msg00077.html (11,514 bytes)
12. Re: 18V engine upgrades (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 11:01:21 -0800; Only if you want to run consistently over 8000 RPM, in which case you also need to do things to the crank's oilways. It's a durability issue primarily for race motors. I have been making up other pla; /html/mgs/1995-03/msg00145.html (9,640 bytes)
13. Re: spridget vrs. Mini (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 11:45:53 -0800; Oh, but that's the *fun* question! The answer comes from an examination of your Car Wardrobe, and what it already has. From conversations we've shared in the past, I'd guess that the Spridget will du; /html/mgs/1995-03/msg00200.html (10,723 bytes)
14. Re: Determining model year (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 11:45:56 -0800; Model years and calendar years don't line up. The model year begins in September of calendar_year - 1 and ends in August of calendar_year. So what you have is an early production 1974 MGB. The most n; /html/mgs/1995-03/msg00201.html (8,787 bytes)
15. Re: high mileage... segue to Lucas ramblings (score: 1): Author: fisher@avistar.com (Scott Fisher); Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 17:52:43 -0800; Putting a B18 into an MGB would be a mistake. Putting a B20E into an MGB, on the other hand... The difference is about 50 bhp. Our family car is a 1963 Volvo 122S with its original B18D motor, rated; /html/mgs/1995-03/msg00245.html (9,542 bytes)

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