Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dale, I have nothing against MGA's, except the fule-pump! I used to carry a hammer that was used to bang on the fuel pump cover when it stopped. It invariably did this at busy intersections or at trafficlights. It would happily idle until the light turned green and then die! As for cold weather trips in MGA's! A friend of mine and I bought one in Stockholm and we were driving it back to southern Sweden. It was January and although cold, no snow. We outfitted ourselves with a couple of leather flight suits that we found at a surplus sale. They were very fancy with built in electrical wires for heating the pilot (probably made for old biplanes). The car had no top and no windshield (we were converting it to a track racer and the price was low). We picked up the car and drove off, after a while we got cold, plugged in the suits in the cigarette lighter outlet and found out that the suits were 6 volt and the car put out 12 volt. It was an interesting trip, every 15 minutes we would turn on the suits, after 5-6 minutes smoke would erupt from armpits and crotch, pull the plug out, cool down, start freezing, plug in the suit again. This was repeated for approximately 7 hours for the trip. We both agreed that we knew what a slice of toast felt like after that trip! To top it off, it started snowing in the last 2 hours and we were pulled over by the police. 2 young guys in an open sports car, no windshield and smoke coming out of their clothing, in the middle of the night, during a snowstorm, wonder what made them suspicious? Tom A