Re: Update from Jim

[FDShade@aol.com]

Welcome to our new members # 411

McCartt, Larry -----------Blakatgal@aol.com--------------Monroe, OH, USA
1949 TC 8710 XPAG ????

===and # 412

Butler, Tom---------Tombutlercpa@cs.com---------Napa, CA, USA
1947 TC 2107

===and # 413

Burgeson, John-----------burgytwo@juno.com------Denver, CO, USA

No car - (he wrote that he had a '49 TC but) "This car met its demise in
1951 (alas). I had owned it for two years. Actually, it was the Thanksgiving
weekend of 1952.

I bought the MG at York Motors in Pittsburgh, Pa, in the spring of 1951.
It was used -- the previous owner had actually used it in a robbery
attempt! I think I paid $1325 for it -- about every penny I had.

Fellow students at Carnegie Tech generally scoffed at it -- but I loved
it. Would you believe it was turned down by a parade committee as a
"coed-display" car in a fall, 1951 parade? Too funny looking.

I did a complete engine overhall in the summer of 1952 -- kept me out of
truble.

On the way home to Youngstown for Thanksgiving, a salesman in a Chevy
business coupe ran a red light -- I hit him amidships and flipped him
over. No injuries -- but both cars were totalled.

I had that MG for three semesters out of eight -- my grades were at "C"
level during those semesters and at A- level in the other five. I told my
dad there was no causality. He did not buy it.

John Burgeson (Burgy)

===but goodbye to

2913 Niemi, Jerry --------------Jniemi3604@aol.com----------Grand Rapids,
MI, USA
1947 TC 2913 XPAG 3541

He is no longer on-line with aol and I have no other email address for him.

===and, what I want to know is:

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

Jim Shade West Covina CA

[FDShade@aol.com]

Welcome to our new member # 412

Gentrup, Michael --------michael.l.gentrup@lmco.com------Southlake, TX, USA
1949 TC 8584 XPAG 9373

==but goodbye to

Burgeson, John-----------burgytwo@juno.com------Denver, CO, USA

who wrote:

I'll have to unsubscribe. Watching the chatter here brings back fond
memories. But my beloved TC is now reduced to rubble some 48.67 years ago
(more or less) and the next time I'll drive her is in the afterlife.

Wave to me then --- I'll be the one with chrome air horns. Hey -- at age
20 I had NO taste!

===and my bumper sticker reads

I'm may be lost but I'm making record time

Jim Shade West Covina CA

[FDShade@aol.com]

Welcome to our new member # 413

Weisheit, Mike ----------mlweisheit@msn.com -------St. Charles, IL, USA
1948 TC 6981 XPAG 7853

===some people try to turn back their odometers.

Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I have traveled a long way
and some of the roads weren't paved.

Jim Shade West Covina CA

[FDShade@aol.com]

Welcome to our new member # 411

Miller, Tim - tim.fiona.miller@tinyworld.co.uk - Ross-on-Wye, England
1936 TA 0264 MPJG536

===and # 412

Jackson, Tim--------timothyrjackson@cs.com---Seaford, U.K.
1946 TC 1202 XPAG 1884

===and 413

Sellick, Mark--------mark_sellick@mrifast.net ----Taunton, England
1946 TC 1459 Wolseley 4/44 (original XPAG2148)

===and 414

Meyer, Peter-------Banjomeyer@aol.com----- Seevetal, Gemany
1949 TC 9027 XPAG 8480


===plan ahead.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.

Jim Shade West Covina CA

[FDShade@aol.com]

Welcome to new member # 415

Tucker, Sabrina--------- Sabrina40@aol.com-------------St. Louis, MO, USA
1949 TC 8710 XPAG ????

(Sabrina is the daughter of Larry McCartt - co-owner of TC 8710)

===and #416

Arnold, Tim & Irenne--------ihopman@home.com---Olympia, WA, USA
1949 TC 8194 XPAG 8912

Tim writes

Irenne and I attended the GOF West in Napa and noticed a new "badge" we
hadn't seen before, and fortunately found out about the group. We would
like to join.

===and

I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top

Jim Shade West Covina CA

[FDShade@aol.com]

Welcome to our new member #416

Howard, Chris - Howard.Chris@btinternet.com - Maidenhead, England
1949 TC 9164 XPAG 988

===and # 417

Jackson, Rodney ---- yendor@satlink.com.au ---Victoria, Australia
1948 TC 5586 XPAG 6257

who writes: I have owned this little darling for some 25years and use it at
least 3times a week.I dont belong to any MG clubs but we have some 15 tc.s in
our immediate area.We meet a couple times a year and go for a run together
followed by a barbecue.

===and # 418

Pike, Tom --------- hhjthp@iglou.com ---------- Louisville, KY, USA
1947 TC 2481 XPAG 3168

===and # 419

Bond, Robert--------- Mgtc0469@aol.com ---------Langhorne, PA USA
1946 TC 0469 XPAG 1141

===and # 420

Cornish, Bob -----rsc@foxinternet.net ----Kirkland, WA, USA

who writes: Peter deBruyn and I met at the British Car Field Event at the
Bellevue Community College in Bellevue, Washington last Saturday. He
suggested that I ask that my name be added to the MG list. I bought a
near-new black-tan '49 TC in 1951 from C.J. Felt in Berkeley. CJ operated a
foreign car garage on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley. He also owned a beautiful
Cord sedan. I drove the car for several years and belonged to the Square
Wheel Touring Society of Marin County. Along the way another TC owner and I
overhauled our engines together in San Anselmo, California. After that, the
car became reliable! But in my unknowing youthful ways, I sought money for a
trip to Europe in 1953 and sold it back to CJ for $1500. (One of the biggest
mistakes of my life, so far). In retrospect, I should have gotten a bank
loan with the car as collateral. After returning home in 1956 I learned that
CJ had sold the car to a student at UC Davis and that he had raced it and
broken a half shaft. After learning that I lost interest in the car, but now
I would like to track it down and find out where it is, if it still exists,
possibly restore it.

===but goodbye to

Rosenberg, Marvin----Marvinbr@aol.com---Mount Pleasant, SC, USA
1949 TC 8858

who writes: I have sold my TC

===and I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary.

"Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said.
So I suggested the kitchen.

Jim Shade West Covina CA

[Bill707@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/31/01 22:24:13, FDShade@aol.com writes:

[FDShade@aol.com]

Welcome to our new member # 421

Redman, Jeff--------redcigar@ozemail.com.au----NSW, Australia
1938 TA Tickford MPJG 3087
1947 TC 3306 (Very historic racer in Aust.)

who writes:

I'm new to this electronic whizzery - hence I've just found this fascinating
site and yes, I'd like to be involved!

===and #422

Castle, Terry-----mgtc1947@hotmail.com------Indianapolis, IN, USA
1947 TC 2947 XPAG 3533

===and #423

Pohle, Edwin--------pohle@jps.net--------------Squaw Valley, CA, USA
1948 TC 5856 XPAG 6585

===and did you hear about the man charged with parking his car in a
restricted area.

The judge asked if he had anything to say in his defense.
"They shouldn't put up such misleading notices," said the man.
"It said FINE FOR PARKING HERE."

Jim Shade West Covina CA

[FDShade@aol.com]

Welcome to our new member # 425

Patenburg, Herbert -----------mg-herby@web.de-------Germany
1947 TC 3622 XPAG 3894

===but goodbye to

Storch, Jerry --StorchJazz@Mindpulse.com ---Bridgewater, NJ, USA
1948 TC 6855 XPAG 7045

he apparently changed email addresses

===and goodbye to

Stubgen, Wally -------- wallystubgen@ibm.net --Kitchener, Ont, Canada
1949 TC 8939 BMC C57235

he apparently changed email addresses

===and I take my wife everywhere,

but she keeps finding her way back.

Jim Shade West Covina CA

[FDShade@aol.com]

Welcome to our new member #421

Tolcher, Ray----------rayt@turboweb.net.au -------Seaham, Australia
1947 TC 3972 XPEG

===but goodbye to

McCombs, R. L. ----------RLMcCombs@aol.com--------Columbus, OH, USA
1948 TC 5766 XPAG 6443

His email address is no longer valid

===my wife told me the car wasn't running well because there was water
in the carburetor.

I asked where the car was, she told me, "In the lake."

Jim Shade West Covina CA