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"John Mazor" wrote in
news:z6J8j.118$TZ4.19@trnddc02: "Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message ... "nobody" wrote in news:t6h8j.254061$kj1.47694 @bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net: "Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message .. . Mxsmanic wrote in I have virtually no doubt of it. I have no doubt either. you'd crash. What goes up........ Oh i can't wait to see his argument attempting to disprove this one. Well, his Kook Rating has been an unbroken upward trend line since he started here and there is absolutely zero probabilty that it will go down. Hmm, wonder if I suck a bookie into this one. Bertie |
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"John Mazor" wrote in
news:vpJ8j.120$TZ4.34@trnddc02: "Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message .. . Ross wrote in news:q0z8j.1$W34.0@dfw- service2.ext.ray.com: I mentioned earlier that my parents had a Nash. I remember that the front seats would lay back and if you pulled them up just right you could have a very nice "bed" with the back seat. Yep. A friend of mine had a 1960 Rambler that did that. I got one too and we tried to fold the front seats in the same fashion, but it took a lof of force. Sitting on the dash and kicking force, to be exact. We got them to fold but found out afterwards that mine didn't have that feature, so from that point on I was driving around sitting on the edge of a bed. Just like Anthony, come to think of it! Oh yeah, it ony had second gear and had a range of about 15 miles before it overheated. I loved it. I called it "The Midnight Rambler" When I was 16 we had the Rambler station wagon where the front seat folded back and the back seat folded forward, giving you a flat, spacious deck from dashboard to tailgate. Unfortunately, my social skills weren't quite good enough at the time to take full advantage of it. Had to make do later with the back seat of a Nova. :-( He heh. Yeah, Girls didn't exactly flock towards mine. Especialy when we painted "Midnight Rambler" along the side with Pep Boys spray paint. They were even less interested in my 53 Chevvy panel truck with the water bed inside. Women, eh? Bertie |
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"Morgans" wrote in
: "John Mazor" wrote Unfortunately, my social skills weren't quite good enough at the time to take full advantage of it. Had to make do later with the back seat of a Nova. :-( Try to make do with the back seat of a Corvair. I'll ONLY say that sometimes my feet got wet, if it was raining! ;-) You should try an MG! Mind you, it was a lot easier to get them into that than the Rambler, but less fun when you got inside. Unless you were realy into getting levers stuck into some uncofortable places (and I bet here's a website somwhere that capitises on exactly that sort of thing) Bertie |
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"John Mazor" wrote in
news:u1L8j.96$Uq4.48@trnddc06: "Morgans" wrote in message ... "John Mazor" wrote Unfortunately, my social skills weren't quite good enough at the time to take full advantage of it. Had to make do later with the back seat of a Nova. :-( Try to make do with the back seat of a Corvair. I'll ONLY say that sometimes my feet got wet, if it was raining! ;-) That sounds like the basis for a marketing slogan for a certain SUV: "There's nothing like getting a hummer in a Hummer!" In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they've already posted a stealth-marketing video on YouTube using that. If this SUV is rockin' don't come knockin'... Sigh, they've taken all the genuine, heartfelt things from the sixites and marketed them... Bertie |
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You should try an MG! Mind you, it was a lot easier to get them into that
than the Rambler, but less fun when you got inside. Unless you were realy into getting levers stuck into some uncofortable places (and I bet here's a website somwhere that capitises on exactly that sort of thing) Bertie In the MG you probably had to stop halfway and adjust the SU's. :-) (just perpetrating a myth about them although an old girlfriend insisted on owning Triumphs and they kept me busy.) TP |
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"muff528" wrote in
news:aLQ8j.160$ZA4.59@trnddc03: You should try an MG! Mind you, it was a lot easier to get them into that than the Rambler, but less fun when you got inside. Unless you were realy into getting levers stuck into some uncofortable places (and I bet here's a website somwhere that capitises on exactly that sort of thing) Bertie In the MG you probably had to stop halfway and adjust the SU's. :-) (just perpetrating a myth about them although an old girlfriend insisted on owning Triumphs and they kept me busy.) No myth! I was at the damned things all the time. It was a TD, which wasn't even an anteek then.. Bertie |
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No myth! I was at the damned things all the time. It was a TD, which
wasn't even an anteek then.. Bertie, you gotta read this........pretty funny :0) http://www.cartalk.com/content/testd...iews/mgtd.html |
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If you think an MG is difficult, consider, please, the front two seats
of an M20J, in clouds, at altitude, with a three axis A/P working very nicely. The spirit may be willing, but the flesh is contorted, poked, vibrated, and then there's the yokes. I don't want to hear about the yoke being on me, Bernie. Still, two hours into a long XC, and another two hours to go: "Cleveland Center, don't be bothering us now." On Dec 15, 8:22 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: "Morgans" wrote : "John Mazor" wrote Unfortunately, my social skills weren't quite good enough at the time to take full advantage of it. Had to make do later with the back seat of a Nova. :-( Try to make do with the back seat of a Corvair. I'll ONLY say that sometimes my feet got wet, if it was raining! ;-) You should try an MG! Mind you, it was a lot easier to get them into that than the Rambler, but less fun when you got inside. Unless you were realy into getting levers stuck into some uncofortable places (and I bet here's a website somwhere that capitises on exactly that sort of thing) Bertie |
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"muff528" wrote in news:WhR8j.221$ZA4.77@trnddc03:
No myth! I was at the damned things all the time. It was a TD, which wasn't even an anteek then.. Bertie, you gotta read this........pretty funny :0) http://www.cartalk.com/content/testd...iews/mgtd.html Yep, that about sums it up. I still have a TC, which I prefer to the TD for a few reasons, though My TC is currently "kitted" Mine was pretty reliable, though. It's major achilles heel was the tendency for moisture to get into the distributor. I got a rubber boot for that and it was fine. It was my everyday drive at the time and I did a fifty mile each way trip to work five days a week in it for many months. I had a bad accident in it. Head on with a car turning left at an intersection. It actually crumpled pretty well. I think I got a pic of it in it's molested state somewhere. My passenger was sitting on his hands. It was Christmas eve and very cold and there was no heater, ya see. He hit the wiper motor with his head and still has the scar. the other guy was drunk coming home from his xmas party. The repairs cost more than I paid for it. I had to hold his insurance company to ransome with a threat of a personal injury claim to keep them from scrapping it. I swapped it for a T-craft afterwards! Bertie |
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Tina wrote in
: If you think an MG is difficult, consider, please, the front two seats of an M20J, in clouds, at altitude, with a three axis A/P working very nicely. The spirit may be willing, but the flesh is contorted, poked, vibrated, and then there's the yokes. I don't want to hear about the yoke being on me, Bernie. Yeah, a mooney ould be pretty tight. I tried to coreograph the act in a 150C on the ground and decided it wasn;t worth it.. Still, two hours into a long XC, and another two hours to go: "Cleveland Center, don't be bothering us now." Oh dear! Bertie |
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