Of Prejudice, Perceptions and LBC's...
by Dr Entropy
It has always confounded me: the manner in which a major portion of the US public perceive our cars. For the most part it has been my experience that they think of the cars as “toys” or “cute” and “flimsy”. “Unreliable” comes in there too.
A personal case in point:
In another life I worked as a photographer for a studio in western Pennsylvania.
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Once upon a time, the fall of 1976 to be accurate, the young lady now known as my wife was the new-to-her owner of a British Racing Green,1967 MGB roadster. The engine was showing some signs of
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I'm learning how to make iMovies - in this case of my BJ8. Taken last year in Carmel, California. The video is hosted on Vimeo, let me know if you have any problems viewing it. Comments on the video
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This story takes place a few decades back, when we could find MG’s largely un-rusted and for affordable amounts of money. To be accurate it was late in
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This is a video of Group 44 racing with some BMLC advertising from the 1970s. This had been posted in the MG forum and I thought it worthy of posting as an article. Love the Spitfire advert!
I posted this video in the Austin Healey forum a few months ago, but I thought it might be appropriate for this venue also. The video was shot in the fall of 2012 by my friend Jason, who is in the passenger seat
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Twenty-six years ago, right after I first got my Healey Hundred, I attended the WestCoast Meet in Eureka, California and had my picture taken with Donald Healey. At the time, Ifigured that experience would last me a lifetime and was content to spend the next couple
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Some Thoughts on LBC Originality vs. Reliability by DrEntropy
The discussions of originality as in contrast to reliability is an old one. For the most part they seem mutually exclusive. Purists want to enter concourse events and win awards for their examples,... read more
Thanks to everyone for the help. The padded clamps are available in many places but none of them have a long enough reach to be bent as the stock clamp
I second contacting Michael Salter. He owns a 100 and there's an outside chance he has a line on an OEM pump that can be rebuilt (he found a rebuilt OEM
[COLOR=#555555][FONT="][FONT=arial]Ever since owning the car since 2016 I’ve had a ‘dancing’ speedometer needle, I had that on my 3 Montegos back in the 1990s so I wasn’t really that worried but...
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To Replace with Period Correct or Upgrade?
by DrEntropy
The discussions of originality as in contrast to reliability is an old one. For the most part they seem mutually exclusive. Purists want to enter concourse events and win awards for their examples,... read more
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