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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2775 on: June 19, 2013, 07:44:44 AM »
This was the first one I was ever able to really take some time and look at close up.  They're uber-rare here in the states. 
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2776 on: June 19, 2013, 12:57:03 PM »
The passenger ripping the handbrake on in the rain, thats entertainment in a Moke. :-D
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2777 on: June 19, 2013, 01:02:36 PM »
Number Six:

"Hey, Neil – how’s this for those attempted escapes from “The Village”?"

It had better be faster than "Rover".

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« Reply #2778 on: June 19, 2013, 05:24:05 PM »
The passenger ripping the handbrake on in the rain, thats entertainment in a Moke. :-D
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[/qu
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2779 on: June 19, 2013, 07:00:18 PM »
Ah yes, ya could always rely on the nurses hostel for a date back in those days if things where a little slow. :-D :-D :-D :-D
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2780 on: June 20, 2013, 04:35:49 PM »
The Midget showed well at the Sussex British Car Field Day last Sunday.  Grabbed a 2nd place trophy for dragging it out.
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You missed on the number the Grenade deserves by 330 . . . . . . . .  :evil:

Was your first choice unavailable?
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2781 on: June 20, 2013, 08:06:05 PM »
I see when you got too loud they sent you out to the north forty all by yourself!  :evil:

Nice to see it running. Great cars, especially the black one.  8-)

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2782 on: June 20, 2013, 09:41:03 PM »
   hahahaha Jack-In-The-Box

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2783 on: June 21, 2013, 12:00:31 AM »



Midget,

You missed on the number the Grenade deserves by 330 . . . . . . . .  :evil:

Was your first choice unavailable?
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J. Lucas,
Prince of ?    Whatever . . . . .


"Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 1326?"

That's a new revelation to me, St. Hubert . . .  

Salt racing etiquette dictates that repeating numbers, such as 666, or 999 (which is the actual displacement if the Grenade) are reserved for streamliners.  A few exceptions have been made - the Electric Ford a few years back borrowed 999 - in honor of Henry Ford's racer.
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2784 on: June 21, 2013, 05:03:43 PM »
Any 3 digit number - - just shows how long you've been at it!
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2785 on: June 22, 2013, 06:10:33 AM »
"Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 1326?"

Is that the firing order?  :| Wayno

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2786 on: June 22, 2013, 08:20:59 AM »
"Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 1326?"

Is that the firing order?  :| Wayno

Usually Wayno, the firing order is "Last on, first off"
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2787 on: June 22, 2013, 09:59:35 AM »



Midget,

You missed on the number the Grenade deserves by 330 . . . . . . . .  :evil:

Was your first choice unavailable?
 :cheers:
J. Lucas,
Prince of ?    Whatever . . . . .


"Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 1326?"

That's a new revelation to me, St. Hubert . . .  

If the number of the beast is '1326', then my calculations make it a BMC 1275 over-bored 1.44mm; THUS, a total displacement of 1326cc . . . . by my calculations anyway.   :evil:

Perhaps a bit on the small side for H/GT with its' 1500cc nominal displacement limit . . . .  :cry:
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2788 on: June 22, 2013, 10:44:29 AM »
"Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 1326?"

Is that the firing order?  :| Wayno

Usually Wayno, the firing order is "Last on, first off"

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #2789 on: June 22, 2013, 01:34:56 PM »
"Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 1326?"

Is that the firing order?  :| Wayno

Only in a misfiring flathead with a bad distributor!   :evil:
"Problems are almost always a sign of progress."  Harold Bettes
Well, I guess we're making a LOT of progress . . .  :roll: