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Can Tinster remain an actice member without
an old British car to dump $$ money into maintenance?

I am still maintaining an old, antique british wife
from Leeds in northern England. That on-going expense
should be worth keeping me as a member?

I can still post in the Pub? Correct?

thanks as always,

Dale in Bayamon, Puerto rico
 
Hey, there's an idea. Start a new forum on the site about British Wife maintenance! LOL!

Please hang around and join in on the fun, with or without a British car!
 
I spent my first 4 years here drooling over other's cars, and annoying several of the ones that had some on offer before I got the guts to step up to the plate with my B. Everyone was always so patient that I never felt out of place or anything. So stick around.

As to the wife situation, more power to ya. I only went as far as a Yankee, so a Brit is lightyears beyond.
 
I think a love for LBCs is a good qualifier, isn't it? An LBW is just an added bonus!!
 
<span style='font-size: 14pt'><span style='font-family: Fixedsys'>Did you already sell the TR or just thinking about it? By the by, Leeds is where David Beales lives. Who? David Beales is the world's authority on the old Daimlers like the one I have. And yes, you can still be a member.</span></span>


<span style='font-family: Century Gothic'><span style="color: #996633"><span style='font-size: 17pt'>Basil</span></span></span>
 
Dale, I was here almost a year without a car. I think the only real requirement is that you want to hang around with us.
 
Sure, of course you don't need a LBC...but I am willing to bet that even if you sell your TR6 you won't be able to stay LBC-less very long...especially when hanging around this bunch!
 
Hmmm... so Crypty has gone fer a chop? Does this mean you've a boat now? If so, that'd be about the same as an LBC, IMO. Just travels on a dif'rent medium. Stick around!

BTW: M'lady Horsemits is Brit, born in Oldham. Small world, innit? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
Basil said:
<span style='font-size: 14pt'><span style='font-family: Fixedsys'>....By the by, Leeds is where David Beales lives. Who? David Beales is the world's authority on the old Daimlers like the one I have.....</span></span>
<span style='font-family: Century Gothic'><span style="color: #996633"><span style='font-size: 17pt'>Basil</span></span></span>
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I was born in Leeds too....back when Dinosaurs drove on the left.

~THIS is one of my favourite record albums~ , for obvious reasons.

And as for having a nice, British street car to drive around in..
..the closest thing I have is our ~HIROSHIMA ELAN~ (Miata).
 
Basil said:
aeronca65t said:
I was born in Leeds too....back when Dinosaurs drove on the left.
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When did you leave Leeds?
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I left the UK when I was about two.
To move to Ireland (both my parents are Irish-born).
Then moved Canada when I was about six.
My folks wanted to move to the US, but there were US immigration restrictions at the time. Eventually, after four years of trying, our application was approved and we came to NJ (to live near an American relative that was in the USAF and stationed at McGuire).

Moving from the UK or Ireland to Canada and then to US was pretty common in the mid '50s.
My secretary did it, I teach with a guy who did it and I have a pilot-friend who also did it.
 
Hey Doc,

Going around to dealers right now looking at
Tarpon boats. Internation boat show in PR the
last week in Jan. I'll probably buy one at the
show. Got an off-shore tuna boat already but I want
something a bit smaller that takes less time to
get down to fishing.

Fishing is actually my true hobby.
The "fully restored TR6" was a Christmas gift
from my wife. I've been working on the broken
down Crypt Car for just about a year
now with almost no forward progress to driving
the beast any time soon. I have not been fishing
since last March due to working on the Crypt Car.
That's real bummer for me.

Crypty seems to have blown up in finality the other
night. Last I saw the car it was dead as a fossil
sitting on the side of a residential street. Keys
in the ignition, ownership papers in the glove box.
No one has called me about a car in their yard.

Maybe I'll take a drive later and look for the
Crypt Car. It was pitch black, I was scared out
of my freaking mind locked up in 2nd gear, breathing
exhaust fumes, so I'm not real sure I could find the
street again where the car blew up

Maybe my mechanic had it dragged to his place? But he hasn't called either. So who knows the ways of the Crypt car?

I'll keep in touch with updates.
 
Do that. Hate to think you'd bug out on us just 'cause ya lost a car.
 
Hey aeronca65t,

We took almost the same route. Started south of Watford, skipped the Irish part (although there is an ancestral link there), moved to Toronto in the 80's and then on to the Philly area in 2000. Finally got our Green Cards this year.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Start a new forum on the site about British Wife maintenance! LOL![/QUOTE]

Do old Southern, high maintenance wives count? hehehehe
 
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Do old Southern, high maintenance wives count?
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I think they do Tony.Only I'd go softly on the "old" bit. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Stuart.
 
Memgership requirments:

An unexplainable luv of LBC's.
An undeniable and unexplainable urge to empty your wallet into one.
Time on your hands, Lots of time.
An atitude of "i'll get there when i get there" helps.
Or "getting there is half the fun"
A very large box of tools.
Stock in Castrol or Redline.
A very understanding Better Half.
The usual suspects on speed dial.
An empty credit card.
Room for a parts car or two.
Phd in Lucas Electrics.


:cheers:

mark
 
Yep, thats the story if my life, born in Manchester, went to Canada when I was 5, my dad was an aircraft engineer, had worked on the Lancaster, , 5 years there, then to LA in '52.
 
So Dale, where's the car?
It doesn't sound like it drove off on its own...
 
Hey Alan,

Last time I laid eyes on the Beast,
was around 10:00 PM last Wednesday,
where it was blown up on the side
of the road, deader than dino droppings.

Haven't heard from it since.
Probably stripped and the pieces
for sale on E-Bay.

What a total nightmare this past year
of owning the 1969ish TR6 has been.

M.I.A.

Dale
 
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