[dread78645]

When I was in the Navy, I knew a guy who had a Jag and kept another car -- we called it his dinghy -- for when the Jag wasn't working, which was most of the time.

Yepper. In Groton, The BEQ was on the SubBase Groton, but my boat was at State Pier on the New London side of the river.

I had a Honda 750F that I rode when the weather was good, and when things got icy, a '68 MGB GT (US steering, women not included).
The Honda was a rock-solid scoot and the MG was pretty reliable most of the time, but I never quite trusted it. It was sorta like the Chinese curse 'May you live in interesting times' as translated by Morris Garage.

[Gumlegs]

I did indeed LOL at your line about the Morris Garage translation.

My wife was driving our '68 MGB on Los Feliz Blvd in one of those Southern California torrential downpours, and she was literally hit by a wall of water pouring out of Griffith Park. She said she looked to her right to see how deep it was, and all she could see was bubbling brown in the passenger window.

But the MG kept right on going through it and got her where she was going. That low center of gravity did the trick. Low center of gravity on the car, I mean.