- 1. 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: "David F. Darby" <darby@tri-lakes.net>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 23:34:23 -0500
- Ladies and Gentlemen: Fortunately, the Voyager (Plymouth minivan) had a flat tire (tyre, or tar) this evening when I set out to drive a load of folding chairs to our studio in preparation for a speci
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00230.html (9,693 bytes)
- 2. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Becky Mahoney <bmahoney@home.com>
- Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 23:36:00 -0500
- If you are not an author...you should be! What a descriptive narrative of a necessity turned a pleasure!
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00231.html (10,520 bytes)
- 3. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 08:29:27 -0400
- On 7/6/98 12:34 AM so and so (David F. Darby) said. (And I quote:) o be s s e <SNIP> Good tale David. As I read, I was reminded of one of the last commercials I ever saw for an MG. Back about 78 -79
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00239.html (9,689 bytes)
- 4. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Ben Ruset <bruset@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 10:30:50 -0400
- As an ex-Tuba player myself, I would have just attached it to the exhaust system. I wonder, was it a Sousaphone - the kind that wraps around your body as you march, or one of the concert tubas - the
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00243.html (8,449 bytes)
- 5. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Lishego" <MIKESL@tartan.sapc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:11:19 EST
- As an ex-Tuba player myself, I would have just attached it to the exhaust system. I wonder, was it a Sousaphone - the kind that wraps around your body as you march, or one of the concert tubas - the
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00248.html (8,604 bytes)
- 6. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Ben Ruset <bruset@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 11:37:16 -0400
- Well, I would have taken the thing apart, strapped the bell to the luggage rack, and put the rest of the pipes behind the seat! I had a hard time getting a Sousaphone in the back of an '84 Oldsmobil
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00252.html (8,124 bytes)
- 7. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison)
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 23:37:17 EDT
- Probably would have sounded a whole lot better than the whimpy exhaust note on the later 1500 Midgets Only problem I could see is How does one get the tail pipe to "pucker" correctly? Sousaphone - na
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00298.html (8,672 bytes)
- 8. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 19:37:47 -0400
- On 7/6/98 11:37 PM so and so (Rick Morrison) said. (And I quote:) Yea I remember that one as well. In fact there was a poster of it at Carlisle this past may. Cool. Or the B that was dropped from a p
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00342.html (8,595 bytes)
- 9. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Furgalus <bfurgalus@geocities.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 20:42:11 -0400
- Do you or anybody else know if perhaps somebody, like the BMIHT, has a videocassette NTSC with *all* of the MG TV commercials from the past? I've seen the "right" version of the parachute commercial,
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00345.html (9,347 bytes)
- 10. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Kevin Brown <MGTRAutoXr@sprintmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 19:47:59 -0500
- If I recall correctly, the whole point of the add with the Midget and the Tuba was that the Midget had "The worlds biggest sunroof!". Kevin Brown Odessa, MO
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00346.html (9,049 bytes)
- 11. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 21:22:30 -0400
- I've seen it on speedvision a few times. Actually the "MGB" episode of Legends of Motorsport has that Midget commercial in it. It's not actually a full Midget commercial, it has a few little stories
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00348.html (8,139 bytes)
- 12. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 14:20:06 -0400
- Brian, It was on Fox, I think. Not sure of the Show title, but I believe it was a special. Like "World's Dumbest Commercial Foul Ups" or something. Larry Macy 78 Midget Larry B. Macy, Ph.D. macy@bbl
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00374.html (8,397 bytes)
- 13. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison)
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 20:29:19 EDT
- Network? TV show? That commercial was on about 1978. I have trouble remembering which channel I just turned off!!! Besides, I'm not too sure that was one of my sober decades :>) Rick Morrison 72 MGBG
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00385.html (7,674 bytes)
- 14. Re: 10-Seater MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Furgalus <bfurgalus@geocities.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 00:12:47 -0400
- Aren't we funny! ;-)
- /html/mgs/1998-07/msg00398.html (7,788 bytes)
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