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MG MGA - Oh Steve......Glenn again

Hi Steve. Winter has hit Ontario Canada (my home, and native land) with a vengence. With little else to do, the inevitable happened. So here is another one for your collection, if you are so inclined. Glenn


Canadian MG Winter Doldrums

Living in Canada and driving an MG
Can sometimes be a real pain, you see

Half of the year, the weather is nice
Rest of the year we have snow and ice

Six months of the year I run my MG to the max
At the season’s end, my Abingdon toy I must wax

Late November my MG is sadly stored away
Garaged right until May, and there it will stay

Winter months are spent mending worn MG bits
Waiting the arrival of spring is truly the pits

A lengthy diversion is what I need
For the long winter months, up to speed

Order parts online from Moss Motors
Always wanted spare distributor rotors

Check out catalogues, Scarborough Faire and Victoria Brit
But not driving my MG makes me feel just like S*it

Look out the window and see a raging blizzard
This doesn’t warm the cockles of my gizzard

Open the door and watch the snow fall
Soon the snow banks will really be tall

With the weather now being extremely cold
An MG driver would have to be bold

To run the real risk of dermis frostbite
While simply waiting at a local stop light

Ice melting salt, on the roads is a must
If driving my MG, would cause severe rust

Despite cold snowy weather, I get the urge
Out of the garage, my little MG to purge

For a ride top down in sub zero and wet
Damn, my MG wouldn’t even start, I bet

engine oil is probably too thick
Synthetic stuff I really should pick

So the rest of winter is spent playing rummy
Eating too much, watching tube like a dummy

Reduced to writing bad automotive poems
Instead of checking MG regulator ohms

Spring I’m quite sure, will eventually arrive
Driving my MG, I will again feel alive


Glenn Hedrich







Glenn

"This doesn’t warm the cockles of my gizzard"

Oh my!

Glenn, I think you need to take a trip down here where it's sunny and warm. I'll let you drive my MG. Really, much more of this and you will have your own page on my site! LOL!
Steve Simmons

Hi Steve. What's wrong with Cockles of my gizzard? It rhymes doesnt it? LOL. YUP, I'm already California Dreamin' !!!! It must be nice to live in a climate thats warm all year. On the other hand....the smog. Oh well, trade offs......Glenn
Glenn

You're 20 years too early. There is no smog problem anymore. The last time I remember having a smog alert was in the late 80's. There is a slight brown haze over the northern areas of Los Angeles County sometimes which can be mistaken for smog, but it's actually a natural phenomenon and was even noted by some of the early settlers here. It is simply dust being blown over the San Gabriel Mountains from the Mojave Desert. Los Angeles itself, downtown, never has smog due to the unrestricted offshore breeze.
Steve Simmons

Apologies to Glen. I am not a poet.

My MGA is on the road today
As it will be from November to May

It's wet and cold here in Preston, Lancs
But the old girl hums on and plays no pranks

Day after day she will take me to work
A journey she loves and will not shirk

When June comes around its off with the coat
Sun glasses on and down to the boat

Fifty years of the A and so much to do
Off to Le Mans with the racing few
Steve Gyles

(with apologies to Joyce Kilmer)

I think I'll never see,
A poem as lovely as an MG

(OK, MGA, but it didn't rhyme!)

Second try:

I think I'll never see, eh?
A poem as lovely as an MGA

- Ken
Ken Doris

Steve

I hate to disagree but the LA basin still has lots of smog. Yes, it isn't as bad as it was in the late 50s or even 20 years ago. BUT, it is still smog. I went to HS in Redlands (mid-50s) and at that time the smog bank extended as far east as Fontana. We had clear blue skies almost all of the time. The mountains a few miles north of the highway were, even then, often clearly visible. Now, when I drive I-10 through Redlands and on west to LA more often than not I cannot see the mountains.

When my grandfather moved to Chino back in the very early part of the 20th century the mountains were very often very clear. In fact, when his brother visited from England the first time Mt Baldy looked so close he decided to walk up to it (only 20 miles away). Now you can rarely see the mountains from Chino.

FWIW

Larry
58MGA

from sunny and sometimes smoggy San Diego
Larry Hallanger

I have a Farina
That I think is much keener
Than a common ol' Varitone
Rhyming only with Baritone


sorry.. had to add my two cents
Richard Cutright

Unless anyone objects, I'm claiming this thread for my poetry page on the web site. Speak now or forever hold your peas!

Larry, you're right about the eastern areas of the county and on into San Bernadino. I rarly head out that way, and living 75-100 miles away on the opposite side of LA I sometimes don't even count it as part of the city! There is significant smog out there, but I have found that from downtown west there is little to no smog left. In fact, the San Fernando Valley which was always the worst place for smog around gets little to no smog at all these days, only showing traces in the hottest days of mid-summer.

I remember the horrible problems with smog in the 80's when various stages of smog alerts were a daily ocurance. We laughed at the proposed laws for new vehicles to reduce tailpipe emissions. As far as we could figure there was no way it would make a dent in the smog problem. It didn't happen quickly but in about 10 years we were eating our words! Now to do something about this population explosion... :)
Steve Simmons

Steve

I am holding my peas ;-)

I always thought Pasadena was the smog capitol of the LA area. I still remember a day, circa 1954, in Temple City when the visibility was just over 1 city block because of smog. This is one time I am happy we are not back in "the good old days"

Larry
Larry Hallanger

If we ever agree on anything, that was it! The good old days weren't so good when it came to certain things, like breathing.
Steve Simmons

This thread was discussed between 14/12/2004 and 16/12/2004

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