gary,
kip may be reinventing the wheel since holden vintage & classic in the uk has
been the vintage lucas place for years. your car should use the 418861 cap.
my catalog of several years ago shows 28.62 #. check it out with them at
sales@holden.co.uk
cheers,
jerry
ps. they have everything lucas known to man !
Editorgary@aol.com wrote:
>
> Last year there was an exchange on the list regarding the lack of replacement
> distributor caps for the early 3000s. (I'm sure someone can supply the
> correct designation for that distrib.)
> In any case, I was talking to Kip Lankenau of Kip Motor Company
> (www.kipmotor.com) in Texas, the major source of parts for many orphaned
>British
> cars (e.g.
> Hillman Minx, Vauxhall Victor) yesterday. Kip has launched a project to
> reproduce the entire range of Lucas distributor caps. He's done the
>four-cylinder
> version for T-series MGs, and expects to have back in stock reproduction Lucas
> caps for the early six-cylinder cars within a few weeks. They won't be cheap
> (probably between $75 and $100) -- the tooling was expensive and he's going
>for
> top quality in materials and manufacturing -- but they will be concours-spec
> caps, complete with molded Lucas letters on them.
> No financial interest -- just happy that I will be able to get a spare dizzy
> cap for my Healey before doing any long-distance travel.
> Cheers
> Gary
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