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1. Packing for extended touring - Midgets (score: 1)
Author: "A.D.Smith" <A.D.Smith@boris.umds.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 10:27:30 GMT
On the subject of packing for extended touring, I wonder if any midget owners can offer helpful suggestions. We've been on two week camping trips in my midget - two people, camping gear, drinks, food
/html/mgs/1995-12/msg00073.html (9,203 bytes)

2. Re: Packing for extended touring - Midgets (score: 1)
Author: Matt Liggett <mliggett@seven.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 10:34:56 -0500
This is a very interesting topic for me, as my fiancee and I plan to head to the Southwest (New Mexico perhaps) for a 9-day mostly-camping vacation in my '70 Midget this Spring. ...and I may have res
/html/mgs/1995-12/msg00076.html (9,513 bytes)

3. Re: Packing for extended touring - Midgets (score: 1)
Author: Dirk de Boer <deboer@duke.usask.ca>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 09:56:57 -0800 (PST)
One thing that will help is to use one of those anti theft special nuts for which you need a special key to get it of. People use those to protect their fancy mag wheels from theft. Of course, this o
/html/mgs/1995-12/msg00079.html (8,237 bytes)

4. Re: Packing for extended touring - Midgets (score: 1)
Author: "U. Goettsch" <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 11:35:50 -0800 (PST)
It was like that originally. When the top (hood) design was changed to the fold-down design (67?), they moved that firewall to make space for the folded down top! Ulix __/__,__ ________/____,,_______
/html/mgs/1995-12/msg00087.html (8,055 bytes)

5. Re: Packing for extended touring - Midgets (score: 1)
Author: "A.D.Smith" <A.D.Smith@boris.umds.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 09:28:32 GMT
Many ideas there, the one closest to my own came from Matt Liggett <mliggett@seven.ucs.indiana.edu> who suggests bolting a wire wheel hub to the boot lid and putting a rack over the top so you can st
/html/mgs/1995-12/msg00096.html (9,220 bytes)

6. Re: Packing for extended touring - Midgets (score: 1)
Author: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 10:08:23 -0500 (EST)
There used to be a thing called (in the US) a continental kit. Basically, you'd extend the bumper brackets 8 inches or so, and nestle the wheel between the bumper and the body in the position it had
/html/mgs/1995-12/msg00101.html (8,961 bytes)

7. Re: Packing for extended touring - Midgets (score: 1)
Author: "A.D.Smith" <A.D.Smith@boris.umds.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 15:30:35 GMT
So the bumpers are stuck out on 8 inch stalks behind the car ??? Sounds a bit wierd. I have split rear chrome bumpers, so it would look even more wierd. I'd like to see it though. Does anyone know i
/html/mgs/1995-12/msg00104.html (8,910 bytes)

8. Re: Packing for extended touring - Midgets (score: 1)
Author: jfischer@supercollider.com (James Fischer)
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 12:46:50 -0500
Think about trying one of the bike racks that attach to a trunk lid without bolts (often using straps). The goal would be to take a page out of the MG TD's book, and have the tire hang down behind t
/html/mgs/1995-12/msg00105.html (10,627 bytes)

9. Re: Packing for extended touring - Midgets (score: 1)
Author: RickEraser@aol.com
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 21:29:57 -0500
owners A member of my MG club has a midget with the spare mounted "continental style". He has what I believe is a '71 with the split rear bumper. It doesn't actually look too bad. I think the whole t
/html/mgs/1995-12/msg00128.html (7,913 bytes)

10. Re: Packing for extended touring - Midgets (score: 1)
Author: Don Mathis <tdm@smtp-gw.ak.att.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 10:25:36 -0500
Andy, Try to find a book of 50's-60's American cars. Continental kits appeared on some 49 Fords, 54 Chevs, 48-? Cadillacs, Golden Hawk Studebakers, ..... You know how a 1931 Phantom II Rolls Royce h
/html/mgs/1995-12/msg00135.html (8,941 bytes)


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