From '68 to '73 the MGA was
the car of choice for all our summer
trips - we drove it all over the
Northeast. Naturally, some roadside
repairs were necessary along the way.
This is a picture taken on a road trip
in New England. The original Lucas
fuel pump stopped working. We
drove for a while with the battery
cover off
and Ken hitting
it regularly with a wrench.
Whenever a gear change was necessary,
Ken stepped on the clutch,
called out the gear and Melon shifted
with her left hand from the passenger
seat! Ah, finally we reach
a town, time to pull it out and
attempt a repair......let's coast into
that nice big empty parking lot over
there!
Just as I get the pump undone,
a State Trooper arrives. As Melon
takes this picture he is telling me to
move the car because a bomb threat was
called in for the adjacent factory
building! So that's why the parking
lot is empty!!!!


If
you look carefully at the picture on
the right, you can see the "washer"
Ken made from a copper paper clip.
That fixed the fuel pump problem for
the rest of the trip!
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