Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug wrote: >The last car I owned that came with a starting crank was a 1947 MG TC :^) I owned a 1954(1250 engine) MG-TF for a few years and bought a brand new 1959 bright red MGA in Jacksonville Florida. I am pretty sure that both these cars had starting cranks. By coincidence the only trouble I had with the MGA when I drove it from Boulder, Colorado to Fairbanks(1500 miles of gravel road), Alaska was electrical. Out in the middle of nowhere the engine quite. Did not take me long to discover that the electrical power lead to the electric fuel pump had come lose so I screwed it back on and away I went. 18.6mpg overall and no one passed me on this very enjoyable drive through beautiful country. But the wiring was ruined, the rear fenders pockmarked from underneath and the windshield was busted up from gravel damage. The tires were trashed and I was never able to clean out all the dust because I used a tonneau cover. "Hood" in English is "top" in American while "bonnet" in English is "hood" in American. Not implying that any of you well-traveled and wise_in_the_ways_of_the_world LUGers would not know this of course. But I did not want to leave any Texans(largest glacier-free state) on the list out of the conversation. Dale - --- $ dale-reed@worldnet.att.net Seattle, Washington U.S.A. $