- 1. WHY BRITISH??? (score: 1)
- Author: RFeibusch@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:25:14 -0500 (EST)
- Dear Listers, Anyone out there ever analyze what elements in your childhood are responsible for your interest in British cars? I know that many of us are car nuts and motorheads in general and are in
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00394.html (10,791 bytes)
- 2. Re: WHY BRITISH??? (score: 1)
- Author: Rodney McDonald <rmcd@marspec.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:47:21 -0600
- You bet I can remember the first influence! I was a four year old that was taken for a ride in a brand new TR3 that a neighbor purchased. Wow! side curtains, kidney chiller doors, and the coolest eng
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00398.html (12,114 bytes)
- 3. Re: WHY BRITISH??? (score: 1)
- Author: "Christopher M. Delling" <cdelling@srv2.ic.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:53:07 -0500
- My first exposure was Dad's mid-life crisis, when in 1975 he came home one afternoon with a well-kept '72 Spitfire. I was hooked immediately. The swoopy body work, exotic (to me) lift away front end,
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00402.html (12,282 bytes)
- 4. Re: WHY BRITISH??? (score: 1)
- Author: Eddie Sheffield <sheffield@telos.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:05:03 -0500
- I really can't say. Frankly, I've never even driven one! I remember in the early '70s my grandfather (who lived next door at the time) came home in one. He's a lawyer and sometimes took stuff in tra
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00406.html (8,309 bytes)
- 5. Re: WHY BRITISH??? (score: 1)
- Author: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:52:25 -0500 (EST)
- <snip> I became interested in cars in utero. No, just kidding, but early. When I was 4 or 5, my uncles and fathers say I could identify many cars by the shape and location of their tail lights at nig
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00413.html (11,465 bytes)
- 6. Re: WHY BRITISH??? (score: 1)
- Author: Craig Wiper <craigw@sonic.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:57:39 -0800
- I grew up listening to British rock music in the early '60's. I became a musician back then and tried to emulate my favorite music, which happened to be mostly British. In high school Triumphs and MG
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00427.html (7,721 bytes)
- 7. Re: WHY BRITISH??? (score: 1)
- Author: pbailey <pbailey@qnet.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 21:20:16 -0800
- I was born in England and came over to the US when I was 6 months old My mom was a war bride So I guess it was lurking in my blood all along but I really didn't pay much attention to LBCs until I was
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00429.html (8,189 bytes)
- 8. Re: WHY BRITISH??? (score: 1)
- Author: dfdarby@juno.com (David F. Darby)
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 23:25:44 PST
- -- Had Miss Evans, a svelte blonde social studies teacher during my middle school years, ca. 1958, driven a Nash Statesman, I am sure I would have developed a predilection for Kelvinators; but instea
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00434.html (8,703 bytes)
- 9. Re: WHY BRITISH??? (score: 1)
- Author: PHILIPPE TUSLER <TUSLER@mp050.mv.unisys.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 12:55:20 -0800 (PST) (20:55 UT)
- I was doomed from birth. Dad had a '49 TC, still does. Now he has a '48 Bentley, too. When the MG-MGB-GT came out, he got the first one delivered to the Pasadena region. That's Tintin. I remember rid
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00464.html (7,937 bytes)
- 10. Re: WHY BRITISH??? (score: 1)
- Author: Wayne Buletza <rwbmg@voyager.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:07:25 -0800
- My love started with a '52 TD Matchbook car - white. I used it as a part of my HO train layout. It was followed by a yellow TF and a black MGA. They were neat. Fast forward six or seven years. I'm 17
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00484.html (10,235 bytes)
- 11. RE: WHY BRITISH??? (score: 1)
- Author: "doug russell" <dr-doug@msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 14:14:34 UT
- I suppose there are many reasons why British -- here are some: 1. I'm 2nd generation American with many relatives in the "old country" Scotland - so perhaps it's in my blood (along with tossing the o
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00572.html (13,410 bytes)
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