Yeah but you can't replace Steve Cropper or Duck Dunn.
Posted on 07/12/2006 5:51:45 AM PDT by aculeus
"Well, at least it probably won't have 'Lighting by Lucifer'"
LOL!
but let's not confuse the youngsters in the crowd.
This is a reference to the "Lighting by Lucas", the troublesome electrical system
of British cars.
This earned Lucas the nickname of "The Masters of Darkness"
What about airbags? No way one could be put in the beautiful wire-spoke steering wheel.
On my TD, I took out the original vinyl covered plywood dash and installed one I made from a mahogany plank out of an old piano.
Dang. At first I thought MG meant machine gun. That's a relief.
Heck, at first glance I thought the headline said:
Chinese company to build MIG's in Okalahoma.
Your eyes are better than mine, I thought they were going to build MiGs!
Yeah but you can't replace Steve Cropper or Duck Dunn.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I buy a car made by a Chinese company.
2006 Morgans are still made the same way!
I hade the same thought MG = Machine Gun. If that were the case, I might end up moving to OK to get a job at that place, so I could do the old Johnny Cash "I got it one piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime" routine.
Are they going to be marketed and sold by Wal-Mart?
Then came the months of having to shovel the snow out of my front seat every time it snowed because of those damn sliding windows.
Then, towards the end of the winter, I rolled it.
In the mid-seventies I worked with a young knothead who bought a new Triumph TR7. Talk about the pure pits, he was constantly having to take a day off from work and drive 125 miles or so one way to the dealer to get something fixed. I think that, on at least one occasion, it was undriveable and had to be hauled in. I wouldn't have paid five hundred dollars for one of those rolling junkpiles.
First I saw "MIGs", then I thought "Motor Generators."
Sunbeam Tiger-sold and serviced by Chrylser ,but powered by Ford. what a wacky deal.
Alright! Parts for my 70 B! Soon to be available at K-Mart!
nobody should have ever thought of British cars as everyday transportation
but they make great Sunday afternoon cars
assuming you can do all the repairs yourself, LOL
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