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MG TD TF 1500 - Night run...

Just got back from a really nice run... after adding that felt steering shaft bushing last week i was getting a lot of rattle and clunking...before i left tonight i raised the shaft's height as it had dropped. As soon as i had done this the rattle stopped and the steering was really smooth... made it a whole different driving feeling.
Anyway...was on a stretch of straight road and kept giving it gas.... evened off at 4700 rpm... it was great...my hair (well, what is left of it) was blowing around...the wind was whistling around the windscreen...the muffler was blasting out a really loud smooth note... it was great... i was really moving...
It was at that point that the teenaged girl with the braces driving the Neon and chatting on her cell passed me........!!!!!!!
gordon lawson - TD 27667

sounds wonderful. But she can keep the neon,,, wouldn't be caught driving that.... Anyway. looking forward to going for a ride in mine, turned the engine yesterday for the 1st time in 40 years. (no gas) but sounded good... Soon... oh so soon.

Richard
R & A Budd

Gordon:

Full sympathies. I know the feeling. With tyres screming and wrestling with the steering wheel for those little corrections, recently I was out cornered - passed nonchantly - on the esses up from the Spit Bridge here by a pregenant woman driving a Holden Commodore (the ultimate in autmotive blandness)who wasn't even seeming to notice the corners.

Its dishartening. Destroys one's macho self image.

Bill McGee
Bill McGee

I have found that with all the honking, waving, people asking me to pull over to ask questions about the car and little kids wanting rides (which I don't do unless Mom or Dad is there)it is difficult to go very fast anyway. Just lots of fun!

John
John Progess

This didn't happen in my 1952 MGTD back in 1958 because I had traded the TD in on a brand new 1958 MGA and I loved driving rings around the big fat Detroit iron when I was living in Detroit. However I had a rude awakening in August 1958 when my pal Jim and I went to CA looking for work. I don't remember which mountain it was but we were coming down this mountain in CA top down cornering like a road race and three different locals driving Detroit iron (one a big fat Buick) tooted for me to get out of the way and they passed me on a two lane mountain road and I coudn't catch them, they cornered faster than I could!! I know they know the road, but it was an awakening to this 21 yr old>
Greg & Grimm
G.J. Cenzer

When they scream by me in their Hondas and Toyotas and I’m just motoring along enjoying the top down experience, I smugly think to my self. “Yea but will someone be restoring you in fifty years?” I think not! A little smile seems to creep onto my face and I continue on with the top down experience. I feel sorry for them; they don’t know what they are missing. John
John C. Hambleton III

This thread was discussed between 19/07/2005 and 20/07/2005

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