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I'm betting most of you have one mounted in the cockpit somewhere. Mine is in the trunk. I know, I know, not real accessible in an emergency.

Where can I mount/place it inside the car that it's inconspicuous and out of the way?
 
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Where can I mount/place it inside the car that it's inconspicuous and out of the way?

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Good thing you arn't asking this question on the "other" forum.

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Paul
 
Should I?
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Well.... It would be interesting depending who is on line. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
By the way.. I sent you a PM over dare.

Paul
 
I would Place it (not mount it) behind the passenger seat. Easy to reach from the driver's seat, or outside the car (if the top is down). Also by not mounting it, you won't have to worry about the latch catching (or loose precious seconds) when you need it NOW.
 
Paul, you know I can be such a chitstirrer. It's a legitimate question and deserves a legitimate answer.
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Ok I keep mine it the trunk. But I never lock my trunk unless I have something in there worth steeling so 99% of the time I could get to it in just a few seconds.

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I never lock my trunk either. When we're travelling. If it's parked with luggage, etc. in it, yes. And I'm fairly certain if Emma was heading for a molten mass of melted metal, I could get it out in a nanosecond. Maybe I'll just stick it behind the passenger seat. Seat doesn't go forward or backward anyway (for some reason) so that's a good spot for it.
 
WHY do you even need one?

Lemme tell you a story...when I returned from Germany in 1975, I brought a 1975 Mercedes 230 sedan with me....somewhere in 1976, we were driving to my parents house when I started noticing smoke coming through the AC vents (car had just been to dealer for AC service)..initially thought it was just the AC freezing up but then noticed it smelled like something burning...then the windshield started fogging...so, I immediately pulled off at a gas station....when I opened the hood (yeah, I know - DUMMY!) she burst into flames....filling station guy ran over with a fire extinguisher & started to put the fire out.

"What the heck are you doing?" I yelled.

"Putting the fire out!"

"Not in this world, man, let it go."

"But, its a Mercedes!"

"No, its a BURNED Mercedes - let me get my families luggage out of the trunk while you call the fire department. It should be toast by the time they get here."

They got there & put the fire out - no big explosions like in the movies - just charred back to about the driver seat.

Insurance company replaced it.

Morale: Why try to repair a burned car? Actually, its not worth repairing so you'd better make sure its burned enough to total it!
 
Then I need to UP my coverage on Emma. Because I can't replace her for $4000.
 
For antique auto insurance that is generally written for "stated value" (usually the amount the insured requests, perhaps backed up by an appraisal) and is sold at very reasonable rates, it can be a huge, costly mistake to underinsure the vehicle. What happens frequently, however, is that the owner insures the LBC for the amount he pays for the car. Over the course of a few years, he/she does some restoration (paint, body work, engine rebuild, etc.) and the car appreciates anyway, but the owner fails to increase the stated value. Just like your home insurance, so should evaluate the coverage on renewal. For me to increase my coverage by $2000 would only cost about $14 a year. That's cheap insurance.
 
&, if you insure it properly, you don't have to fiddle around with those dinky fire extinguishers!

or get hurt fighting the fire!
 
I did insure Emma for what I paid for her. But I did call them a couple months ago about raising the 'agreed value.' I just keep forgetting to get an appraisal from John so I can do that. I need to raise it to $6-7000.
 
"Why try to repair a burned car?"

Because there will never be another one like it! It ain't a Mercedes that you can go buy another one of. Burn your classic LBC to the ground and that's one less left in the world to be enjoyed.
 
Steve - just build another....its not like they're rare or anything! & burned metal can never be salvaged - hard to do with burned wiring also....once burned, always burned...I'd rather work on a rusty car than a burned car!

IMHO - FWIW
 
But that's the point, they will be rare if we just let them burn! And the older cars are already getting rare. Besides, you could never replace the '65 in my garage that my grandfather and father both drove before me, and that was my first car all those years ago. If it starts to burn I will fight for it!

I know some people have emotional attachments to certain inanimate objects and some don't, but regardless I just can't see the point of letting a piece of automotive history or at the very least a perfectly good, functional car burn up. That's one less person who will have the opportunity to enjoy an MG in their life!
 
Inanimate objects? Don't throw Emma in that group! She stopped being a car and became human at some point over the summer.
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Lemme see, now...I've been messing with MG's for about 40 years & only know of 1 that's burned....& I'm not being a smarta$$, Steve, but it'll take a bunch before we run out

...however, I hear where you're coming from & understand exactly why ...
 
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