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Jay_Nickell

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Some of you have seen me at the other BBS for about a year now, and like a lot of people there I followed the herd over here yesterday. But I like this place too, so I added it to my favorites and plan to lurk and post.

I have a 1980 MGB the PO did a nice job of partially restoring, say 80%. I'm tinkering with it from time to time, maintenance and enhancements. The car is my only daily driver. I dropped an AC system in so I could keep driving in July and August. I'm working on an SU conversion instead of the Weber 32/36 (just because I like duel carbs in an MG) and I'm milling some wood for a trim package.

I try not to post unless I know what I'm talking about, but sometimes after a few bottles of Shiner Boch, I become an expert on things I know very little about. You can tell because I'll start to slur my typing.

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Hiya Jay.
"I try not to post unless I know what I'm talking about..."

Hey, that's never stopped me.
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Ain't nothin gonna stop Jay Bird.---Keoke /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Howdy Jay! Don't be afraid to speak your mind, even if it's as twisted as the rest of ours. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazyeyes.gif
 
"If we weren't all crazy we would go insane."
 
Welcome Jay!
I'm on my first restore, so most of my posts end with a giant question mark. Hopefully that will change as I delve further into the money pit I've come to love!
And yes, there is a wealth of knowledge at the bottom of a bottle of Shiner Boch! (Too bad I can never remember it the next day!) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thirsty.gif
Welcome!
 
<raises hand in guilt>
I wuz a "Parrot Head" before the term was coined: First album was JB's Pink Crustacean. On vinyl, in 1973, IIRC. Had to "special order" it. First concert was in ~Cleveland~(!) in '77... downtown theatre, 300 attended. Things have changed.
 
Once went ot a Parrothead concert in Kansas City...sat down to enjoy & quickly realized my teenage daughter was sitting behind her mother & me...boy was she shocked!
 
BUSTED!
 
heh. Durn-near ironic, that.
 
We actually have similar interests...I remember when she burst into the room when she was in the 8th grade with a new tape...from a "new group named Chicago...man, was she shocked when I went down to the basement & brought up all kinds of Chicago records....she played those things the entire year!
 
Nothing has given me quite as much pleasure as when son Paul would come to me and say, "Dad - I heard the greatest song today..." and he'd play it on a cd or tape. I'd say, "Oh yeah, that's (whatever it was, by whoever it was - usually a song from the mid sixties}... And YOU'RE WELCOME! From MY generation!"

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Ain't it great, Mickey!
 
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We actually have similar interests...I remember when she burst into the room when she was in the 8th grade with a new tape...from a "new group named Chicago...man, was she shocked when I went down to the basement & brought up all kinds of Chicago records....she played those things the entire year!

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How shocked was she to learn they started as Chicago Transit Authority- and their first album CTA is still their best... shall I run and hide now? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
I never knew that!
 
CTA>>>Yup!... <digs thru vinyl pile> got it 'round here someplace. They shortened it 'cause the ChiTown fellas took exception to a "rock band" usin' their monicker, IIRC.
 
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