Me too - and have owned them all. I presented R&T period data for your own use/information. Now that I'm home after a 12 hr work day complete with cancelled Little League game and local monsoon rain
Just for some non-emissions fun, here is the Autotest review from the same period. (UK based) The headline is "MG Midget 1500", the byline is "Smallest British Leyland sports car given much more punc
Lets see, we have a triumph engine in an MG. That is like a Chevy engine in a Ford. Or like crossing a french poodle with a german shepard. I'll agree whole heartedly, the 1500 spitfidget is a true 1
I can not dispute what R&T published. But I still don't buy it. I would like to know a bit more about the environmental conditions at the time of the test. I don't have access to the issues. I proabl
Larry The world pretty much looked the same. There was more litter on the road side and in the lakes and streams. Air polution was not as bad as it is now but the feds blamed auto emissions not big b
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
Not meaning to offend but it was actually a partial birth abortion! That surgical procedure is being outlawed in most countries now... Kent -- Original Message -- From Frank Clarici <spritenut at Ex
<< Lets see, we have a triumph engine in an MG. That is like a Chevy engine in a Ford. >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Oh come on, Frank. Triumph and MG were owned by the same company at the time. It
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OR a Rover engine in an MG, although some might call it a Buick engine, OR, a VW engine in a Bugatti, like what they were showing at the Detroit auto show. NOW you've got something. (really!) Fantast
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-- Original Message -- > Someone said that they used 87 octane fuel. Until Prime Minister tony blair got his cronies working on the classic car industry (on behalf of the Greens?) we had 97 octane as
The low compression cars were 7:1, not 9:1, and so could run on the low octane fuel. (my car cannot run on less than 93, I've tried it a few times when I had no choice) It depends on the market the c
Hey- Don't forget "Gas Wars" (no Star Wars) and 100 octane LEADED, and not giving a damn (cuz ya didn't know any better) about how much cholesterol was in that giant greasy double cheeseburger! Opps-