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MG MGB Technical - Best MG day of the year so far!

Howdy all!

I've just got in from a cracking drive. The sun is out, it's nice and warm, the roads are dry and it's the middle of a friday so most people are at home or at work rather than being inbetween, and the sunday drivers haven't found their pipe and slippers yet.

Today is the first day I've had my sunroof open this year, and very nice it was too to have the wind in my face as I tore around some of Warwickshire's finest country roads. I had a bit of a game of keepy-uppy with a chap in some kind of hot Audi, who was probably a bit surprised to see me stay in his mirror round all the twisty bits, and managed to toast my tyres nicely round some choice roundabouts.

Now, if it wasn't for the fact that my engine's crying out for another head gasket, my front wheel bearings are both gone, my wheels are all stupid shapes and my throttle cable is sticking badly near idle, I'd say that it couldn't get much better :o)

Hope to see more of you out on the roads. Hello to whoever was in the orange midget I saw earlier, if you happen to frequent this fine BBS.

Happy Spring!
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Olly
Oliver Stephenson

Well agree with what you say apart from the pipe bit, Its been an ok week so far, Tuesday was at the Ace Cafe, not many MGs up there! where are you all? and today decided to bring in the oldest car, why do so many company car drivers feel the urge to beat a 50 year old car off the line, Lol. Have a good sunny weekend whatever you drive.


Tatty ( Non-member since 2003 )
Tatty

Oliver
Glad to hear that someone else is engoying thier car today. I drove to work in my '65 B at 3am this morning. It was the first time I have had the car out this year. Sure it was a bit brisk at 18F but it sould warm up nicely to 40F or so for the return trip. Tomorrow is going to be the 1st 60F day we have had since November. Guess I'm jumping the gun a bit.

Sorry to any of you reading this thinking this tread belongs in the general section, I couldn't resist.
Jim
Jim Royal

I'm dying to drive mine to work today but with the rear end sticking up like a stinkbug I'm embarrassed to show it in public. Oh where art thou, replacement springs? :(
Steve Simmons

Weather today was fantastic, wasn't it? I spent 5 1/2 hours on the road driving from Lancashire to London - sadly it was in a rented Ford Focus! First job on the list for tomorrow - put the radiator back in the B and get out and about!

Let's hope the good weather sticks around.
Tim.
Tim Jenner

Took the B to go to college today (first time!) and had a lot of fun! It was really a good day to drive.
If only I could do this every day... (insurance doesn't allow me)

Happy motoring,

Alex
Alexander M

Beautiful day in Kentucky today, weekend looks good as well, going to be in the 60's and no rain. Problem is the seats from the B are in the basement being recovered, I decided to go ahead and fix the rust while the interior is out so the way things are going I won't be driving it for a while.

On the other hand, I will be getting some time in a leather seat with some fun transportation, but then I have to muck his stall when I'm done!!

Bud, '67 roadster
Bud G

Been out in mine yesterday and today, still a bit nippy though with the top down. It was foggy here in SW Brum this morning. Intend to drive it to the MGCC production car trial at Lintridge farm tomorrow. Why don't you all join us, its free to watch (I think). Its SW of Worcester, sign posted from junc2 of M50. OS map 150 map ref 738,327. More details in events diary on mgcars.org
Paul Hollingworth

Here in Sunny Southern California today...... it's pouring rain. :(
Steve Simmons

The snow is melting here - so it appears. I do see a silouette of an MGB in the driveway. However, it under a blue vented tarp. Will not torture myself by looking under there. The roads need to dry up before I even think of trying to start it.

cheers

gary
gary n.hansen

This weekend the sun has been shining continuously here in Glos. as well as most places elsewhere in the UK. Not a cloud in sight for hundreds of miles .... Predictably, there's several modern two seater soft-tops about including MGFs, but, pleasently surprised to see around six MGBs about in this glorious sunshine too. All with their hoods (soft-tops) down. Had not realised there were so many about. Two of these tourers were nice V8 conversions.
J McFeely

A whole weekend of glorious sports-car driving weather! I can hardly believe my luck that nothing has dropped off my car while I've been enjoying it :o)

It's a shame that most of the people in MGFs/TFs/Z-cars don't wave though.
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Olly
Oliver Stephenson

I bet they don't even realize you're driving an MG also!
Steve Simmons

Actually, I bet they don't even realise that *they're* driving an MG :o)

I got a wave from a chap in an Elise earlier though.
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Olly
Oliver Stephenson

First topless day in Chester County, Pennsylvania...went to visit a friend and we awakened his 1959 TR3A and we both went for a late winter ride..

Ahhhhh! winter's almost over.


rn
RN Lipow

Heard there was another huge storm due in tonight, so I took the topless '71 out for a super brief belt up the hill behind our house. About five miles return, and put her away again. Started first or second revolution of the starter, but of course there are all kinds of things to be done, as per usual. And it is now raining quite hard! ( 1900 hrs)
Ken R
Ken Rich

This is all a cunning trick to get me to open up my cardboard boxes and put my car together again... but you can't fool me...

Now, where are those slippers?



AJ Munro

Took out the MGB Saturday for a great drive across Baldwin county Alabama, from Pensacola to Fairhope, on the Eastern shore of Mobile Bay, for their annual art festival...train show and British car show, all held simultaneously. Beautiful sunny day, temperature in the mid seventies, and rural, two lane blacktop roads...life doesn't get much better. Sunday and today...we're back to our typical rainy spring weather. MG's are back in the garage...waiting...
R. L Carleen


The interior's going in the car this weekend. I wanna get out in the car as soon as I can! I just have to rustle the money together to foot the £800 insurance bill :(
Mark

Took mine out again yesterday to work, and then it rained. Halfway home the battery died so I had to go get the truck and trailer. Even so I had fun driving it. Guess I'd better wire up that relay for the alternator control circuit, it doesn't charge quite as well with the plug out.

Jim
Jim Blackwood

Got the proper rear springs in the car and it handles like a dream! Took it the long way home from the repair shop today. Wonderful! A woman in a little hatchback pulled up and asked me what year my MG was. WHen I told her '65 she saidd that's the same as hers. I could only wonder what she was doing driving the econobox!
Steve Simmons

Oh Gloom, will someone please come and help me get this windscreen back on?
Bob Anderson

Bob - you seem to be having windscreen problems, something all too familiar to me.....are you fitting it to a roadster or GT?

Bruce
B. Mann

Today was even better. What is it with this UK weather? It's the best March I can remember. We never get two nice weekends running in the UK! Great driving yesterday and today, saw 5 other MGs out there.
Richard Evans

Re-Zeds and classic MGs and waving. Having had a ZT longer than my GT, I found it odd that MGB drivers were a bit 'nose in the air' about the new MG's and didn't seem keen to wave! Most of the Yoof driving the ZR's and the young ladies in the F/TF's don't seem to know the history of MG, probably bought to suit their image or whatever! Weird thing is, these people would never have bought the Rover equivalent of the Zed!

As a die-hard Austin/MG/Rover owner/fan, the MG ZT lured me back into a GT. Amongst the Zed fraternity on the active Zed forums, the feeling is 50/50 about the heritage. Some love the relationship and heritage of Abingdon, but some of my cohorts on the Zed forum are T***mph fans that think the MGB/Midget should have been killed in 1970. Any discussion about the arrogance and dominance of the T***mph management of BL that lead to the awful TR7, and no funding for the evolution of the MGB/Midget, falls on deaf ears!

So, whilst my GT is off-road awaiting a 1860 rebuild and some welding, take pity on a poor chap having to read this thread, driving along in his ZT with the sunroof wound back pretending that the two seats in the rear aren't there! At least the noise of the V6 makes up a little! And I'll wave!
Martin

Superb weekend up here in Yorkshire, shame my '71 B is in the shop :o(
Will
Will Hay

More good weather today, and I've been having some british leyland based fun in my Mum's Mini, which is quite nippy. Shame the EMS chooses to shut the engine down every so often :o)

ttfn,
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Olly
Oliver Stephenson

With regards the old versus new waving debate...
...I find most driver's of the newer mg's wouldn't know I was an mg if I took off the badge and gave them it, so I tend to let them wave first!
Far from snobbery, I just soon tired of the strange looks I got after waving at the drivers of the newer cars.
Will
Will Hay

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