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Re: LBC NDC (Near Death Experience)

To: Scott McKorkle <bmc@aa.net>
Subject: Re: LBC NDC (Near Death Experience)
From: john peloquin <peloquin@galaxy.ucr.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:24:07 -0700 (PDT)
I've had a little ABC kidde in the passenger footwell since I've had my B.
I'm deathly afraid of car fires!

"Never Ascribe to Malice that which can be explained by Ignorance."
John J. Peloquin
Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521

On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Scott McKorkle wrote:

> I bought a Kidde last week, too!  The one I bought is too big for the glove
> box.  Maybe my B is different from yours, but I had room to mount it on the
> floor behind the passenger seat.  This keeps it completely out of the way,
> but still easily accessible.  I even laid a spare piece of carpeting over
> it to hide it from view.  
> 
> Scott McKorkle
> Issaquah, WA
> 1978 MGB
> ----------
> > From: Dan Ray <danray@bluegrass.net>
> > To: mgs@autox.team.net; Kevin Richards <flybirds@erols.com>
> > Subject: Re: LBC NDC (Near Death Experience)
> > Date: Sunday, May 31, 1998 5:28 PM
> > 
> > Whoo Boy! Glad you made it through ok.
> > I recently bought a Kidde mini fire extinguisher (habit from my VW bug
> > days). Fits in the glove box of my '73 B quite nicely, and I'll soon be
> > "VELCRO"ing it into passenger side footwell on the tranny tunnel.
> > Cost: about $8, plus $1.50 for the Velcro -- A lot less than a new B not
> to
> > mention all the love I've put into it!
> > Dan
> > '73 B
> > 
> > 
> > >Listers,
> > >If your MG has been sitting around and you are just getting it back on
> > >the road, REMEMBER!!! Replace those fuel lines! Nice fancy new paint
> > >jobs do not look good when they are all charcoal-black.
> > >Averted near disaster today whilst I was driving to work. All of a
> > >sudden, there was liquid on my windshield....wiped it up with my hand
> > >while driving, and smelled it....it was gasoline!!!
> > >HORROR......WORST NIGHTMARE....VISIONS OF OLD "CHiPS" EPISODES...BANG!!
> > 
> 


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