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Feelin' Solexy
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: WA
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Just watched an MGB go up
Was sitting here at my desk in Cambridge MA (just outside the lechemere T-station, down the street from the museum of science for those in the know) and suddenly there was a HUGE amount of smoke going up outside the window (I'm on the 5th floor). So I stand up to get a better look, and here comes a FLAMING MGB! Rolling at maybe 5mph, it hits a little concrete island in the intersection outside of my building and comes to a stop. I'm 5 floors up, but only about 45 feet as the crow flies from this car. So everyone in my office stood in the windows and watched the blazing inferno....WOW! It was really something. WAY more exciting than the program I was developing. Nobody hurt, BTW.
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Grant In the stable: 1938 Buick Special model 41, 1963 Solex 2200, 1973 Vespa Primavera 125, 1974 Vespa Rally 200, 1986 VW Vanagon Syncro Westfalia, 1989 VW Doka Tristar, 2011 Pursuit 315 OS, 2022 Tesla Y Gone but not forgotten: 1973 VW Beetle, 1989 Porsche 944, 2008 R56 Mini Cooper S |
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08-03-2004, 08:12 AM
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Super Jenius
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Syracuse, NY
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Someone must've flipped one of the Lucas 3-position switches from "Off' through "Smoulder" all the way to "Ignite."
JP
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08-03-2004, 08:15 AM
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Amazing, the power of Lucas cigarette lighters must be treated with respect at all times.
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08-03-2004, 08:17 AM
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Location: Northeast GA
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And you just had to leave your little digital camera at home?
Keep alert, these things come in threes...
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08-03-2004, 08:20 AM
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Windows s/w/e perspective:
"What happened?" "I dunno. Re-start it and see if it happens again"
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08-03-2004, 08:21 AM
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Location: Winston Salem, NC
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I guess the beer is a bit warmer than usual tonight.
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86 951- again on the road, but needing some more TLC 82 931- again among the rolling "If yer paint aint chipped, you aint passin nobody." |
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08-03-2004, 08:39 AM
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MGB - May Go Boom
Lucas - Let us Create a Short
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08-03-2004, 08:44 AM
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08-03-2004, 08:56 AM
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08-03-2004, 11:59 AM
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Obviously the handiwork of Osama bin Lucas.
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08-03-2004, 12:03 PM
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Super Jenius
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Syracuse, NY
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tech -- right; he's just a few days too late to spook the living shizznit out of the conventioneers.
JP
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08-03-2004, 12:14 PM
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Time for smores!
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08-03-2004, 12:16 PM
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Super Jenius
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Syracuse, NY
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mmmm... this has a subtle, piquant aftertaste of burned cloth wiring insulation.
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08-03-2004, 12:18 PM
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Location: SF Bay Area
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I'm crossing MGBs off my future projects list.
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08-03-2004, 03:18 PM
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TBD
Sinister Dove
Gemini Boomerang
Porsche 996 Turbo Convertible
996 Turbo
1983 911SC Cab / 2005 997.1 / 2006 Cayman S
997
