[Closed] DO NOT READ THIS THREAD IF YOU DRIVE A DIESEL

Ah, but I can be smug every day of the week, not just when the sun is out.

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semi 😯

in all seriousness, what you driving?

(swoon) my hero (swoon)

go and spaff off over clarkson...

rattle rattle rattle=mpg 😉

but i must say V8 convertible=lob on! 8)

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Same model/colour except my roll bar is in the garrage, my sills are original and so mach the rest of the car and my interors black.

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WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (turbo whistle)

TRAACTOR! (206 HDi)

I bet my diesel sounds better than your old shed..... 😆

ohh and the roof on mine folds down neatly behind the deats, that one appears to have borrowed an overgrown concertina.

Your push bike is making a funny noise??
Ohh no u drive a convertble subaru impreza
Do u put a lolly stick in the rear wheel as well ?

mine runs on petrol and a supercharger

whiiinnneeeeee
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wheeeeeeeeehhhhzzzz

no gay roof though.

tinas - I do both, I get my economy when on the motorway using my diesel bike carrier and I get my fun using a petrol engine with nice turbo wurble and pops 🙂 No point in compromising!

Oh dear MG anorak
watch out for him in the pub
in the corner with a jumper on smoking a pipe

at least we diesel drivers don't drive around constantly worrying that the smell of leaking fuel from our Midgets is the prelude to a conflagration.

gosh - where might I purchase such a vehicle ? 😉

at least we diesel drivers don't drive around constantly worrying that the smell of leaking fuel from our Midgets is the prelude to a conflagration.

actualy that turned out to be an oily rag I'd left in the footwell getting blown on by the heater 😀

Oh look a Midget with a "reliable" and "speedy" Triumph engine..........

Chrome and round arches with a 1275 twin carb, now we're talking....

Nowt wrong with the smell of petrol lad.

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Dunno, might be selling it though, fancy a new project, this one doesnt need enough fettling for my tastes, thinking either a JP15 or fisher fury.

thank you all for poisioning the children of our world.

and some dumb **** wants to ban smoking in public
*shakes head*

Not a patch on a V8 landrover burble!!

wish i was old enough to get excited about bimbling around in an old convertible.

but i'm not, and i can't.

my Nova Merit+ with a bean-can exhaust used to make that noise

Dunno about unreliable, only faults while we've had it (3 years now) have been

Brake hoses,
Worn propshaft
Electrical gremlin.

Nothing else has needed touching (apart form serviceing). In the meanwhile everyone else at workk who went out and bought modern cars had had problems rangeing from central locking not working (renault) starter motor sticking on (pug) various sensor woes (VAG diesels). At least my problems have all been fixable with a bag of spanners and a multimeter :0)

my sills are original and so mach the rest of the car and my interors black.

I thought the black paintwork on the sills was standard on the rubber bumper version, are well.

Find a tunnel to drive through with the roof off, backing off the go-go pedal to make it bark 😉

That's what I loved to do in mine anyway 😉

thisisnotaspoon - Member

Same model/colour except my roll bar is in the garrage, my sills are original and so mach the rest of the car and my interors black.

That's not an MG.........

This is an MG........
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How've I poisoned any kids?

Its 35 years old, does 40mpg, runs on the same unleaded as any other car and is made almost entirely form steel* which is less energy intensive to make than aluminium?

*ok, so the stering wheel is aluminium and theres some foam in the seats, theres carpets, a few bits of glass, and errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, thats about it. Ohh and some wood.

Think I'd rather do my 120 mile/day commute in my Ibiza TDi, thanks all the same, especially with fuel prices going up at the rate it currently is!

Diesel, petrol. Who cares. I'd drive a tractor, a golf cart, anything.

I get all the burbling I want AND 75mpg.

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A 22 year old Honda VTZ250. Wish mine was still as shiny as this one.
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I thought the black paintwork on the sills was standard on the rubber bumper version, are well.

hmmmmm, I know stainless pannels were an aftermarket thing, I think the black must have been an option as quite a few have it.

N.b, technicaly they're not the original sills, its a herrritage shell with (naughty naughty) the original VIN plate.

"doesnt need enough fettling for my tastes"

mg owner in total lie shocker!!! 😆

especially with fuel prices going up at the rate it currently is!

I buy the expensive stuff out of choice, fuel is still cheep (or at least very affordable).

On a similar note, when did 'ultimate' unleaded drop form 99 to 97 octane? Its not been entirely happy ever since.

I thought a zimmer frame was a needed if you were old enough to drive something like that.

Is your bike a Penny farthing????
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Thisisnotaspoon on a recent ride.

[i]tracknicko - Member
wish i was old enough to get excited about bimbling around in an old convertible.
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Wish I was young enough to get excited about driving. full stop.

google: mg owner

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classic

Yes I did a reccy run first, and no it was not as fast as it sounds.

PC Brigade dont watch it.

Posted before but a V8 at 9000 rpm under a bridge, ****ing marvelous 8)

It made me twitch driving it anyway...

"doesnt need enough fettling for my tastes"

mg owner in total lie shocker!!!

Fettling (and resultant near bancrupcy) was all done by previous owner (heritage shell, full engine rebuild, gearbox etc) who did one big tour of Europe in it then put it away in his garrage. All I have to do is keep it going. I'm looking for a kit car so I can indulge in some proper tinkering without having to notify they insurers every time I breath near the engine.

For those of you thinking you need/have to be old to want a classic car..........

Just try insuring anything at 23, start with your gran's 1.0 nissan micra.
It'll be £800 with a £500 excess.

Now try insuring a 2 seater sports car,
Its £330 fully comp with a £100 excess, just becasue its <20years old 😀

or watch that episode of friends where ross gets a little two seater, then some fat bald ****er pulls up next to him and shouts 'how hot are we?'

because that will be you...

christ, i thought from your description it was going to be a TVR or a Corvette........not an MG!

in related MG news, from the owners club website, spy shots of a new MG to be built in Birmingham

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I've just been out for a drive in the countryside, with the roof down, the sun shining and the lovely burble of a sporty exhaust pipe attatched to a carberetured engine.

If I were out enjoying a drive in sunny countryside, I'd rather be in a sweet handling quiet powerful car than in a crappy old-tech wannabe sportscar making some kind of racket.

Noise does nothing for me. Refinement does.. which is why I like my quiet diesel 🙂

Apparently the new ones being built in China are being branded "Modern Gentleman".

Where did it all go so wrong? Lotus are now whileing away their days trying to make some foreign manufactuere a cool sporty brand.

MG's are being buuilt by communists and is making overweight cars using technology that was old hat 15 years ago.

Actualy whats changed?

my sills are original and so mach the rest of the car

Then technically it isnt right, they were always black up to the chrome strip.... However I like em body coloured too.

I had a 1972 RWA one (and 3 BGT's0, and my mum has had her 78 Midget from new.. 🙂

Noise does nothing for me. Refinement does.. which is why I like my quiet diesel

Now there's three words you don't see often in the same sentance, refinement, quiet & diesel.

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I was having a chat with the wife last week and she promised that it would be ok for me to buy a Lamborghini Diablo SV if we won the lottery (which we don't enter).

I do love them but the main reason would be to pull up to work in one and see the reaction. Not because I want to show off, it's just that I work for the Environment Agency and it'd be VERY amusing. 🙂

How on earth do you manage to get the fuel to the carburettors on hot days without it evapourating?
Though that 1500 block seemed to do better in the MG than it did in the Spitfire.

Think I'll stick to my Diesel if that's the choice, costs less than that year to insure too.

Never had fuel problems, although the logic of having the exhaust manifold and the inlet manifold ont he same side completely escapes me.

Lots of empty space under the bonnet though which must help. If I ever get arround to it I might fit fuel injection and an air box routed through the grill (like the heater hoses is).

costs less than that year to insure too.

Really, for a 23 year old, with no NCB?

Its only downside is theres only room for me an one bike.

Now there's three words you don't see often in the same sentance, refinement, quiet & diesel.

Indeed. 'Skeleton having a wnak in a biscuit tin' springs to mind. 😛

There is nothing like the high pitched whine of a 16v engine to stir the blood

[i]Really, for a 23 year old, with no NCB? [/i]

I'm not 23. You see that's the beauty of being a bit older, I can choose what I want and don't have to try and justify it to myself.

If I was going for an older car like you have I'd be going for the Audi Quatro, always loved them since they came out and still would have one.

Its only downside is theres only room for me an one bike

Its not like your friends (if you have any) would want to be seen dead in it.. 😀 😀

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That is a nice Nippy. Not so keen on MGs really, no idea why though. Just personal preference.

ahhh yes, but I couldnt afford to buy one, let alone insure it 🙂

Aye, probably a good bit dearer than a Midget to buy. Insurance shouldn't be daft though.

if somebody stole my radio then i'd try to look on the bright side

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[i]I told you they don't come with radios - you just sit and listen to the engine, anyone fancy a trip to halfords?[/i]

That Midget's a nasty rubber-bumpered thing. My Mondeo looks nicer.

Sweet V8 Hemi
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Those MG's were just fugly, as were the plastic bumper B's. Putting a [b]Triumph[/b] engine in just sacrilege, there's nothing wrong with an A Series, they can be injected, turbo'd, run unleaded, taken out to 1600cc, there's endless race tuning bits for them. I had one for a while, til it got nicked. The hood leaked like a sieve, you had to hold it in second gear or else it jumped out. Fun to drive, tho'. Not as much as my Puma, going down a gear in a tunnel or surrounded by buildings and wellying it sounded much better than your MG; revvy Yamaha 1.7 Zetec is why. My Octavia 1.9TDi sounds pretty good when I accellerate hard overtaking, [i]and[/i] I can get 60/gallon on longish A-road or motorway runs. My old '53 split-screen Minor, with a 1275 A-series and 'box, and a van rear axle, plus 5Jx13 wheels and Koni shocks used to go
like the clappers, give over 50/gallon, and I'll bet the reclining bucket seats were more fun with the G/F I was
going with at the time than an MG would ever be. In fact I can be absolutely sure of it. 😉

Lots of anti MG here 👿

Here's mine - K&N's, extractor manifold, big bore exhaust, stage 1 flowed head. It sounds great and I enjoy driving it so bollox to the lot of you 😛

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Aren't you shunned in the MG world if you drive a rubber bumpered one?

My TDi this morning:
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Aren't you shunned in the MG world if you drive a rubber bumpered one?

Bit like here really....but older and less interesting 😉

I admit to enjoying the monstering brutal noise of my 911, well 993 Targa this morning with the glass roof back as the sun shone down. The noise it makes is just beautiful. 8)

The RWA midgets were only made in 1973-74 - IMO the best midget is the 67 complete with the dogtooth grill, beautiful little piece of English history 🙂

Defender 110 with a 3.9 EFI and tubular manifolds for the full V8 burble here.
Cheap insurance, room for two bikes, no need to carry a tent for weekends away, enough power to surprise or frighten most car drivers and cheap(ish) to run on LPG.

My old 2.5 Alfa v6 made some lovely noises, particularly in second gear when going through the Dartford Tunnel.

Now I get my kicks on two wheels.

'Skeleton having a wnak in a biscuit tin'

Mr Poddy you are an inspiration, I shall use that in future instead of a "A bag of rusty spanners falling down a metal fire escape"

MG + sports car do not belong in the same sentence

'Skeleton having a wnak in a biscuit tin'

Even though it would not be possible 😆

There is nothing that frustrates me more than the thought of dropping a gear and overtaking small cars whilst carrying only 4 mates and 5 bikes, and still burning less fuel doing it than my old fiesta. Crikey, the increase in insurance premnium and road tax for all this cost me a knee-trembling £200 a year more than for the car it replaced. Caravelles are rubbish, really, get a 2 seater sports roadster instead. Youi'll never regret it! 😀
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(not mine but apart from being the euro way round its pretty much identical)

vans FTW.

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Much better than MG Midgets.

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Mr Poddy you are an inspiration, I shall use that in future instead of a "A bag of rusty spanners falling down a metal fire escape"

I aim to please. 8)

Now there's three words you don't see often in the same sentance, refinement, quiet & diesel.

You can come have a ride in it if you like.. I bet it's a damn sight quieter and more refined than a sh*tty old mg! 🙂

spitfires better than midgets - your avin a larf!!!! LOL - shocking chassis on them....