MG MGB and MGB GT Tech Talk
I drove this car yesterday. Original owner car with OD. He bought it in England in 80. LHD as he was bringing it back to the US. Picked it up at the factory. Mostly highway miles with a lot of OD time. Strict 3,000 mile oil changes. No major work other that tune ups and valve adjustments. It is unreal how well the car performs. No smoke or anything.
Are you sure that its 190,000 miles, or is it kilometers? To convert, 2.2 kilos per mile.
kellybell Wrote:
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englishsetter Wrote:
Woops, sorry! I confused it with 2.2 cm per inch, I think!
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bills Wrote:
you guys get all wrapped around the axle about distance conversion
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/54/messages/636.html
i am more interested in the vehicle with 190 thousands on the distance clock..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile
a number of different systems, including Imperial units, United States customary units and Norwegian/Swedish mil. Its size can vary from system to system, but in each is between one and ten kilometers.
Before the statute of the English parliament, there was confusion on the length of the "mile". The Irish mile was 6,721 feet and the Scottish mile was 5,951 feet.[6] Perhaps the earliest tables of English linear measures, Arnold's Customs of London (c. 1500) indicates a mile consisted of 8 furlongs, each of 625 feet, for a total of 5,000 feet.[7] For other "miles" see the list below
I'm going to calculate how many furlongs per gallon my ford f250 is getting...might make me a feel a little better about driving a gas guzzler. And Bill, I agree it would be fitting for us to have the Imperial gallon wouldn't it.
Brain, you can calculate speed in furlongs per fortnight, but fuel consumption should be in furlongs per firkin. I should have thought that was firkin obvious.... :-)
I'm not quite sure what the history is behind your smaller gallon, quart and pint might be, but I must research it (unless anyone else happens to know).
"A pints a pound the world around" comes to mind.
Now where did I hear that?
Brian, sounds like a good find regardless of mileage. Did you buy it?
Rob
bills Wrote:
Brian, does this guy want to sell his car?
My English granny called the smaller US gallon a "Quaker gallon".
She claims that the first Mayflower load sent over to the US colonies were all crooked merchants that were selling short on the gallon.:devil:
JackMG Wrote:
Is a pint of Guiness still a pint of Guiness in the U.S.?
Now, that's important to know.
And do they double and triple pour it?
would that be a wine firkin or a beer firkin apparently there is a difference of very roughly an order of magnitude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFF_System
The Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight (FFF) system is a set of units that uses impractical and outdated measurements. It is a humorous system of units and is not used in practice. These units, notably the microfortnight, are mainly used jokingly in computer science.
Nor need you mind the serial ordeal
Of being watched from forty cellar holes
As if by eye pairs out of forty firkins.
— Robert Frost, "Directive
1 pint (UK) = 1.2 pint liquid (US)
1 freakin firkin = 21.6 US gallons BEER, dont know about wine didnt know it was different!
Guess my English granny was right. Those Quakers have gone into the beer biz too. Next thing you know they will be reducing the alcohol content of the brew.
Can't even believe he has that many ticks on the odometer, and has done "nothing" to the car.
Yeah....how many clutches, brakes, radiators and such??? Atleast maybe he hasn't had to rebuild the motor.
Now if the Quaker oats people started selling beer, would it lower your colesterol???? That's a product that would sell way more the Firken Cheerios!
Nobody's mentioned tons yet.
The US ton is too small too - I think they invented the short ton just so stuff sounded bigger than it really is, for instance, a 10,000 ton US Destroyer is only 8900 real tons. :D
nativetexan2 Wrote:
And... Canada gave you Pamela Anderson. We didn't mess with those inches. :)
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