It’s The MG’s That First Brought You To The DVC - But It’s The Friend- ships That Keep You Coming Back! Volume 36 Issue 1 1970 - 2006 - Our 36th Year April, May, June 2006 Inside this issue… Spring + DVC + MG = Happiness • MG Crappola Our winter is officially above your distributor) Laughing is good for the and a leaking one will soul or so they say and • Mardi Gras over and we can begin to get our MG’s out and sure as heck short out we guarantee you lots of • 36th Anniversary about. It’s time to your distributor. laughs! Have kids? No problem just bring them change the oil and filter, Now that your MG is in • Dave’s Diary if you haven’t already with you in your (MG) good and safe working minivan. done so, lubricate the order, it’s time to savor • Pit Crew Updates chassis and other lube the moment and go for a Life is truly good when points. Don’t forget to you’ve got a beautiful • Click & Clack drive. Who cares if it’s a inspect the brakes, carbs bit chilly. Just being spring day and someone and all hoses for leaks. • Spring Flyers able to get out and about special with you in your Lastly, check those tire in your MG is such a MG heading towards a pressures. For those of stress reliever, There DVC event. Now that’s T-Talk is the newsletter of you that have heaters, are DVC events aplenty happiness. See you soon the Delaware Valley Clas- check that heater valve this spring. Come on at a springtime DVC sic MG Chapter and is pub- for leaks (it’s located out and join in the fun. event. lished four times a year, in January, April, July and October. Anyone with an Our 2006 DVC April — May — June MG Girl — Kerry Dougherty interest in MG automobiles is most cordially invited to join. Dues are $20 per year per family. Membership inquiries should be sent to the DVC Registrar. BehindDVC Contributing The Wheel 2 Columnists Points & Plugs — Tom Rippert From The Pits — Lee Niner Second Quarter DVC Events — See You There! Penny Farthings - Saturday, April 8th Saturday, April 29th Geoff Wheatley Pit & Pub Tech Session Furnace / Forge Tour Exhaust Notes - Chuck Goelz Feasterville, PA Pottstown, PA Webmaster Enews - Lew Phillips Fri. May 19th — Sat. May 21st Saturday, June 10th Spring Tour Prom Night British Beers — Bob Dougherty Ligonier, PA New Hope, PA On June 10th get your tux and prom gowns out. Buy your date a wrist corsage or a boutonnière and head Points & Plugs — Tom Rippert on over to the DVC Prom at Ernie & Barbara Feldgus’ home in New With three events under our during and afterward. Come on, get Hope. MG2006, DVC style, is from belts already, I’m really looking your MG ready for the driving sea- June 19th through June 26th. forward to this year’s driving sea- son. Another April happening is the There will be over 1500 MG’s there. son. You can just feel Spring in DVC Pit Crew’s car show meeting April 22nd. The Pit crew meetings the air, and I can’t wait to get the DVC events are organized by mem- have morphed into a Natter n’ Nog- MG’s out of winter hibernation bers who have volunteered to do so. gin type affair with car show busi- and drive them! We have a nice These volunteers need to know how ness being discussed and then we variety of events on this year’s many people will be attending the have a bountiful lunch at a local eat- calendar, and I hope there is at event they are planning - this is why ery. Come on out, it’s just fun to be least one event (or more) that “RSVP” is on the event flyer. So with MG people. April winds down will spark an interest in all DVC please, if you are planning to attend with a Forge & Furnace tour on April members. DVC events are just an event, just give the organizer the 28th. This event will be a combina- plain fun, and that’s why every courtesy of a call (or e-mail) and let tion of a historical learning experi- member should try to make it to them know you’re going to be there. at least one event throughout the ence plus we get to drive our cars year. Come out, support your through three counties. We’ll then I hope to see all of you throughout club, and see if you can add a lit- wind up with a social at Dave & Glo- the year and remember just let me tle more to the event. ria Schwab’s place outside Pottstown. know if you have an idea for an event or need help planning an May is the Spring Driving Tour to April 7th brings on a Pit & Pub event. See you soon at the next Tech session at Bob & Terri Ligonier, PA on the 19th — 21st DVC event. Tiley’s home in Feasterville.. weekend. Jaimee & I are teaming up There will be lots of technical with Wolfgang & Gudi Fischer and assistance if you need it and we promise you great roads, nice Tom there will be lots of refreshments scenery and lots of fun. you are special because you’ve From The Pits — Lee Niner elected to borrow your MG for “X” amount of years. You have commit- Hi all. Once again, mucho thanks Have you noticed another thing ted to taking care of it. Some day for all your contributions to T- about our MG’s when we’re out you’ll pass it on to another special Talk. Please keep those stories, driving them. All kinds of people person. You see we’re all just tem- antidotes, jokes and pictures com- wave at you. Kids smile and wave porary owners of MG’s. ing. Remember, I’m just an as- and wonder just what kind of little For some reason, we have developed sembler of your newsletter. It’s car is it. People for some strange a passion for these LBC’s. Why, you, our membership, that make reason are drawn to MG’s. It must because we love the excitement and up the contents of T-Talk. If you be because it brings back fond mystery of driving. We love the haven’t done so already, send me a memories in older people and kids sound of the fuel pump. We love the picture of your MG girl in your (or must feel that these cars are for exhaust note. We love taking drives in my case — her) MG and send it pure fun. It’s something that is not on twisting country roads. Our re- to me. Our second quarter MG girl just available anymore. ward is purely inward. It is the sat- is Kerry Dougherty, 16 year old Lizzie drives a Miata as her isfaction that you can take a sixty, daughter of Bob Dougherty, pic- “regular” car. It’s great, reliable, fifty, forty, thirty or twenty some tured in “her” (over her Dad’s dead good looking, safe and the suspen- year old MG sports car out for some- body!) ’69 MGB. sion is a dream. However, it’s just times hundreds of miles and safely Spring is upon us. Once again not an MG. There’s no mystery to return. It is your way of declaring we’ll be out driving our MG’s on it. There’s no smell of gasoline or to the rest of the world that you un- those glorious MG roads. Who Castrol. There’s no ticking of the derstand simple pleasures and that cares what gasoline costs! Who fuel pump and the sound of the ex- you appreciate owning a real piece cares what about lawn cutting, haust, well it’s just an almost no- of automotive history from the sec- gardening or house painting! ticeable exhaust sound. ond half of the twentieth century. We’ve got our MG’s and we’re go- Where am I going with all this? Till next issue. ing to enjoy them. The direction I’m headed in is that Lee Hey DVC Member - Do You Need A Second Opinion? Then You Better Call on Dr. DVC! We've all been there... scratching our head after hours under the hood - DR DVC and the darn thing still won't start!... wanting someone there the first time you try something to tell you that you did it right - after all, brakes are kind of important...wishing that the dog had opposing thumbs so that he could help line this thing up... Well, now there is help! The DVC is chock full of people with all kinds of experience working on MGs. We have people who can spend an evening debating why you should trim 4/1000" off your dwibble-thwacker, people who can lengthen any short-circuit, and people who can make a car's finish so shiny you can shave in it (uh... sorry, ma'am). And we are always looking for a reason to get together, tinker, talk cars, and maybe down a pint or two. Put that all together and you have Dr. DVC! Here is how it works... First, you request a house call with a tentative date; next, the doc puts out the call and assembles the team, the doc will confirm your appointment and let you know about how many medics will be coming! We are always looking for ‘medics’, so how about joining us when the calls comes in! You don’t have to be a master mechanic, just come out and join us for a tinkering good time! Dr DVC (Check out the website, www.dvcmg.com, for more info!) With Dr.