TC action

[LuckyFloridaLin@aol.com]

Terry What is an Anti Tramp Cable? Tally Ho! Thom Collins

[Jeff & Merryl Redman]

G'day Terry What a robust discussion this has become. Correct! There are nearly as many modified as there are standard TCs fielded on the paddock at the MG National Meetings which you have attended down here. But did the essence of the modifications escape you? Bet you didn't see too many with non-MG mechanicals? Sure the Datsun 1000 steering box is 'alien' as I saw it described on this thread.. After all, it's discreet (I've seen it fool long time TC owners at 2 or 3 paces) But the trick is to have the rest of the modifications sympathetic with the period. At the extreme, even in Rogers Waters V8 TC .. there's nothing that's not either Nuffield, BMC or Leyland in its makeup. The anti-tramp cables et al you mention are nothing new. Have a gander at old photographs of racing TCs in the 50's. It's all been done before, a lot of it copied from factory competition models and applied to the humble TC The whole point is not to overstep the line. I will defend anyone's right to do whatever they wish to their MG ... on your side of the pond I've even seen one painted plaid, or was it carpeted....but when you jack up the body and drop it over the engine and driveline of another marque, well.................????? Why stop there. Why not go into business flopping fibreglass shells off a TC mould and dropping them onto WRX Subaru floorpans. It would have its own 'character' but could you call it pukka? Yes, we still have the Tickford Regards Jeff TC3306

----- Original Message ----- From: TATERRY@aol.com> To: redcigar@ozemail.com.au> Cc: mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] TC action > In a message dated 8/24/01 2:58:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > redcigar@ozemail.com.au writes: > > bastardised TC? > $30,000? > Well, it proves one thing beyond doubt.. the old proverb > "Fools and their money are soon parted" > Jeff >> > > Jeff, this was a TC "Special" and you boys in Oz certainly should not be > throwing stones at it. I don't think I saw a bog stock TC in my 4 NatMeets > down there. V8's, datsun steerings, anti tramp cables and much more. You > would had to have know Reid Miles to understand it. > > Do you still have your Tickford? > Terry Sanders > Oakland >

[Glaziers Hardware Supplies]

Screw "Pukka". I'm going for full house Subaru WRX WRC Twin Turbo, 4WD underpinnings for my new TC Special!! Watch me fly...... Murray Arundell

> G'day Terry > What a robust discussion this has become. > Correct! > There are nearly as many modified as there are standard TCs fielded

on the

> paddock at the MG National Meetings which you have attended down here. > > But did the essence of the modifications escape you? > Bet you didn't see too many with non-MG mechanicals? > Sure the Datsun 1000 steering box is 'alien' as I saw it described on

this

> thread.. After all, it's discreet (I've seen it fool long time TC

owners at

> 2 or 3 paces) But the trick is to have the rest of the modifications > sympathetic with the period. > At the extreme, even in Rogers Waters V8 TC .. there's nothing that's

not

> either Nuffield, BMC or Leyland in its makeup. > > The anti-tramp cables et al you mention are nothing new. Have a

gander at

> old photographs of racing TCs in the 50's. > It's all been done before, a lot of it copied from factory competition > models and applied to the humble TC > The whole point is not to overstep the line. > I will defend anyone's right to do whatever they wish to their MG ...

on

> your side of the pond I've even seen one painted plaid, or was it > carpeted....but when you jack up the body and drop it over the engine

and

> driveline of another marque, well.................????? > Why stop there. Why not go into business flopping fibreglass shells

off a TC

> mould and dropping them onto WRX Subaru floorpans. It would have its

own

> 'character' but could you call it pukka? > > Yes, we still have the Tickford > Regards > Jeff TC3306 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: TATERRY@aol.com> > To: redcigar@ozemail.com.au> > Cc: mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:55 PM > Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] TC action > > > > In a message dated 8/24/01 2:58:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > > redcigar@ozemail.com.au writes: > > > >

or a

> > bastardised TC? > > $30,000? > > Well, it proves one thing beyond doubt.. the old proverb > > "Fools and their money are soon parted" > > Jeff >> > > > > Jeff, this was a TC "Special" and you boys in Oz certainly should

not be

> > throwing stones at it. I don't think I saw a bog stock TC in my 4 > NatMeets > > down there. V8's, datsun steerings, anti tramp cables and much

more. You

> > would had to have know Reid Miles to understand it. > > > > Do you still have your Tickford? > > Terry Sanders > > Oakland > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

> > > >

[mrbadger]

> Screw "Pukka". I'm going for full house Subaru WRX WRC Twin Turbo, 4WD underpinnings for my new TC Special!! Watch me fly......

Murray Arundell Yeah Murray! And speaking of which, I've been considering adapting a TC body to this old Piper Cub crop duster thats been sitting out in the back barn. Now where are my goggles and snoopy hat? Watch out red baron. 8-}

[paulhuck@bellsouth.net]

I hear the Queen Mary is a running chassis available in LA.....

----- Original Message ----- From: mrbadger mrbadger@home.com> To: Glaziers Hardware Supplies arundell@ecn.net.au>; mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 4:52 AM Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] TC action > > > Screw "Pukka". I'm going for full house Subaru WRX WRC Twin Turbo, 4WD underpinnings for my new TC Special!! Watch me fly...... > Murray Arundell > > Yeah Murray! And speaking of which, I've been considering adapting a TC > body to this old Piper Cub crop duster thats been sitting out in the > back barn. Now where are my goggles and snoopy hat? Watch out red > baron. 8-} > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >

[Charles Hill]

Glaziers Hardware Supplies wrote:

> > Screw "Pukka". I'm going for full house Subaru WRX WRC Twin Turbo, 4WD > underpinnings for my new TC Special!! Watch me fly...... >

FWIW, on a Porsche 914 list I subscribe to, there has been a lengthy discussion on WRX mechanicals in a 914. Regards, Charles Hill

[David Lodge]

Queen Mary? Hmmmmm! Wasn't that the nickname the lads at Abingdon gave to the SA, or was it the VA? Regards, David Lodge paulhuck@bellsouth.net wrote:

> I hear the Queen Mary is a running chassis available in LA..... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: mrbadger mrbadger@home.com> > To: Glaziers Hardware Supplies arundell@ecn.net.au>; > mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 4:52 AM > Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] TC action > > > > > > Screw "Pukka". I'm going for full house Subaru WRX WRC Twin Turbo, 4WD > underpinnings for my new TC Special!! Watch me fly...... > > Murray Arundell > > > > Yeah Murray! And speaking of which, I've been considering adapting a TC > > body to this old Piper Cub crop duster thats been sitting out in the > > back barn. Now where are my goggles and snoopy hat? Watch out red > > baron. 8-} > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/