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Steve Highfield

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Hey Guys
I Just joined over a week ago and thought i would introduce myself.
I have a problem.....
I love my British Steel :)
I'm in Nova Scotia Canada and i Have a 1964 Norton Atlas. A few of you already helped me find a set of tank badges for my bike.
I've had the bike for a few years and am excited to get it finished up and put it on the road.
I also have 4 Triumphs and a 1975 MGB that keep me busy. Not enough hours in the day. Oh.... And A Harley (Don't tell anyone) :)

Cheers
 
Steve Highfield said:
Hey Guys
I Just joined over a week ago and thought i would introduce myself.
I have a problem.....
I love my British Steel :)
I'm in Nova Scotia Canada and i Have a 1964 Norton Atlas. A few of you already helped me find a set of tank badges for my bike.
I've had the bike for a few years and am excited to get it finished up and put it on the road.
I also have 4 Triumphs and a 1975 MGB that keep me busy. Not enough hours in the day. Oh.... And A Harley (Don't tell anyone) :)

Cheers
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Welcome Steve !! fellow MGB owner here. Totally agree about keeping you busy, check out my mantra below. Fellow member and all round good bloke Craig is also in your neck of the woods.

Cheers to you too.

cliffa.
 
That is true Cliff , I responded to Steve’s Kijiji wanted with my offer of help finding his Badges , and here we are !
Welcome Steve you are going to enjoy this ride ! I am going to ask for a tour to West Advocate in your MG , I will buy the pie in Parrsboro , place on the beach there ! We can always check road conditions by bike before trying your mg ....
 
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Thanks Craig and Cliff.
Beautiful area up that way. Love the old roads in the MG. :)
I hope to have the mg finished up soon. I blew the engine last summer coming back from the valley. I fine tuned it last week. Just have to bleed that damn clutch.. Nearly impossible job.. I'll get er done thou :)
 
First trip in Brit sports car ended badly June 12, 1971 .... long ride in ambulance then a week in hospital , then a couple months in a plaster jacket with a hunk of bent iron holding my right arm at 90 degree from body , eventually waded into warm salt water and thankfully was replaced with a much sportier model , surprisingly was on football field last week in Aug. and was starting QB till we lost championship in OT to City team ... youth heals things quickly ...
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Guy across the street bought the car from junkyard found what he needed to rebuild and it turned out better than ever had it sold before he had it painted , good entertainment for me as kinda hapless period ....
 
Craig said:
First trip in Brit sports car ended badly June 12, 1971 .... long ride in ambulance then a week in hospital , then a couple months in a plaster jacket with a hunk of bent iron holding my right arm at 90 degree from body , eventually waded into warm salt water and thankfully was replaced with a much sportier model , surprisingly was on football field last week in Aug. and was starting QB till we lost championship in OT to City team ... youth heals things quickly ...View attachment 22044
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Looks like a TR 6 Craig, had a 73 myself some years back.
 
TR4A was model ,3 of us got to the ton briefly before mishap , ended up pinned under roll bar , Mounties didn’t hear me yelling so attended to other 2 , a farmer and his son had heard and the pair of them got car off and I jumped right up farmer told me my arm was damaged and put my hand in my jacket pocket also mentioned I might need some stitches in my head , hard to tell as we had landed in just turned over cornfield , the muck saved us all ....
 
Welcome to the best forum going! Lots of info to be had on your '64 Atlas. Was it a "basket" case when you got it or a runner? My uncle had a baby blue Herald that our Auntie loved to drive around Suffolk in.
 
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damn, craig, you could have been kilt thank the Lawd i have never crashed my 68 MGB in all the 42 years i've owned it knock on wood!!
 
I’m sorry I got thinking of the old days , and almost derailed Steve’s intro ! ..... big welcome from here too Steve , you will enjoy all that is available on this forum , looking forward to better weather and a disappearance of the covid entirely .... hope you not too jammed up by
the new restrictions imposed for the next 4 wks .... eventually we will meet up !
 
Craig said:
First trip in Brit sports car ended badly June 12, 1971 .... long ride in ambulance then a week in hospital , then a couple months in a plaster jacket with a hunk of bent iron holding my right arm at 90 degree from body , eventually waded into warm salt water and thankfully was replaced with a much sportier model , surprisingly was on football field last week in Aug. and was starting QB till we lost championship in OT to City team ... youth heals things quickly ...View attachment 22044
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Ouch!!! Looks like a chunk of twisted metal.. Glad you made it out with minimal injuries
 
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Welcome to the best forum going! Lots of info to be had on your '64 Atlas. Was it a "basket" case when you got it or a runner? My uncle had a baby blue Herald that our Auntie loved to drive around Suffolk in.
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Thanks... Yup it was a basket case. I've had it for a couple of years. Rebuild engine, repainted frame, rebuild frontend, Tank is at my buddies now getting painted \. Just have to do make up a wiring harness and take care of the odd and sods :)
 
Thanks Steve nothing that lasted ... sounds as if a road test sometime this season is a definite possibility , would bet all here watching will want report on that day ! Hope reassembly all goes as planned ! Please keep us posted as you progress ....
 
Welcome Steve.
All my family was from NS except ME born here in usa, the land of free Nixon vacations to Vietnam.
When I blew up my first 70 commando in May/June? of 1971, I ended up with a 65 MGB as my wheels and I kept it for quite a while and put over 100,000 miles on it and sold it with over 175,000 miles on it still running like a top. I also bought a 73 MGB-GT with overdrive....I love driving it but hated doing sheet metal work all the time. That being why I ended up with a Lotus Elan+2 and a Lotus Elan S3 SE Coupe. still have both fiberglass cars.
Cheers to all the NS guys. I'll be coming up to my cottage on the Meteghan seashore as soon as the pandemic is over and they let me in.:)
 
Things have just tightened up here as of Mar.1st for one month , surely after that plus the vaccine program ramping up , things will relax some , by May maybe ..... we all hope
 
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