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1. enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: robert williford <RDWILLI@VM.SC.EDU>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 97 12:29:26 EDT
Now, it seems that MGs and Triumphs have been embraced by the goatee, earing and tatoo set, who are driving cheap ragtops for style and see little difference between these and a Fiat or an Alfa excep
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01364.html (10,341 bytes)

2. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: "J. Adrian Barnes" <adrian@utk.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:06:24 -0400
I must agree with the observation of attitudes. I am just 24 myself (no goatee but have had a beard a few times!), and my first visit to a British Car show had me leaving in disgust at the way peopl
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01366.html (9,500 bytes)

3. RE: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: "doug russell" <dr-doug@classic.msn.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 97 19:36:39 UT
The problem with this type of post is that you are taking being snubbed at shows too personally. Believe me when I say it has nothing to do with you and everything to do with the other person. What b
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01380.html (11,100 bytes)

4. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: Teacher122@aol.com
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 17:07:38 -0400 (EDT)
<< -i am a married grad student...the fact that my dist.cap, rotor, points, & coil are not lucas-made, i have cheap carpet that i installed, an aftermarket fuel pump, poor paint, etc. is due to lack
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01386.html (8,824 bytes)

5. RE: Enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: Kai Radicke <mowogmg@pil.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 19:05:14 -0400
I sorta agree. I really don't think British Car ownership is taken over by that kind of people...I have always thought of MG owners as the kind to wear Khakis and BRG Polo shirts (well that is my ty
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01392.html (9,505 bytes)

6. RE: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: "J. Adrian Barnes" <adrian@utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:13:18 -0400 (EDT)
Pine was giving me a hard time, so I didn't include the original post as quote, but... I agree that we should ignore people that are "snobby" at these shows, but to me, it reflects badly on both the
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01397.html (9,210 bytes)

7. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: Tom Shirley <tshirley@VoyagerOnline.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:12:14 -0400
Hi Robert, This thing we're all in is supposed to be about cars, right. But unfortunately, some folks use it as an opportunity for posturing. They're beyond impressing the young beautiful woman and
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01400.html (9,467 bytes)

8. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: pat bailey <pbailey@qnet.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 20:45:06 -0700
I drove 100 miles to a british car club meeting last year ( I won't say which one) and as I drove in the restaurant I didn't see any LBCs,I found the people there and they were a nice bunch BUT no on
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01406.html (8,382 bytes)

9. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: Nory@webtv.net (Nory)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:52:20 -0400
Following this thread has made me really appreciate the members of my local MG club. Sure, there are members whose cars are perfect, but most members cars seem to be "works-in-progress". These cars a
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01415.html (8,643 bytes)

10. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:53:48 -0700 (PDT)
Yes, these guys are easily identified by the fact that they sit in a folding chair behind their car all day and not even once walk around and look at other people's cars... Ulix __/__,__ ............
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01419.html (8,519 bytes)

11. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:28:30 EDT
Similar to what happened to me a few years back. My club was putting on a fund raising rally for the local School for the Deaf & Blind. I arranged to go to a meeting of another club about 200 miles a
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01454.html (10,103 bytes)

12. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: Gregory Kirk <gkirk@empirenet.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:26:03 -0700
This whole thread and it's offshhot have gotten me thinking about that poem someone posted in memory of Dammit Dick... "The Enthusiast", anyone remember it? Greg who once in a while actually drives t
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01467.html (8,261 bytes)

13. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: barneymg@juno.com (Barney Gaylord)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:04:25 EDT
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:26:03 -0700 Gregory Kirk <gkirk@empirenet.com> poem someone posted in memory of Dammit Dick... Coming up! (Under private cover. Don't want to bomb the list.) Barney Gaylord 195
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01479.html (8,378 bytes)

14. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: dresden@star.net
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 17:55:10 -0500
OK, here's a new useless thread idea...who's done the longest trip in a BL/BMC made car? (My longest about 1850 miles, between St.Pete FL and Bangor Maine, three times, in a Spitfire, and yes, I had
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01539.html (8,772 bytes)

15. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:55:02 -0700
Can I make an entry for a pre-BMC car? In the early 80's, Al Moss (yes, that Moss!) drove his 1948 TC over 10,000 miles in a six week jaunt which went from Santa Barbara to the East Coast, to variou
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01547.html (8,953 bytes)

16. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: barneymg@juno.com (Barney Gaylord)
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:21:22 EDT
OK, here's a new useless thread idea...who's done the longest trip in a BL/BMC made car? Well you asked. Maybe I can save some people some time here. I just did a trip to Alaska this summer along wit
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01552.html (8,412 bytes)

17. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: Tom Shirley <tshirley@VoyagerOnline.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:43:48 -0400
And the chair must be one of those fold up types with their marque on the back too! -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Shirley . . Sale Creek, TN (just north of Chattanooga)
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01557.html (8,669 bytes)

18. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: Tom Shirley <tshirley@VoyagerOnline.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:50:28 -0400
Back in the summer of 1966, I used to drive a 65 Spitfire from Norfolk VA where my ship was ported to Chattanooga via Atlanta on Friday night/ Saturday morning and return back to the ship on Sunday
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01558.html (8,623 bytes)

19. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 97 10:00:55 -0400
Hello??? dresden@star.net Try Midget on Skyline. 1900 miles top down (carol) all the way. Hurricane Danny, VA Beach, Charlotte NC etc. Took 2 weeks. I once did 1200 miles in one day. 79 or 80 Midget,
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01600.html (9,476 bytes)

20. Re: enthusiasts? (score: 1)
Author: Chris Kotting <ckotting@iwaynet.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 08:53:34 -0400
My $.02 on "snobs": I have seen snobs in every walk of life, in both directions. I have even seen those who are snobbish about how snobbish other people are. On the other hand, I have seen people who
/html/mgs/1997-09/msg01665.html (8,537 bytes)


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