OH!!! DUDE!!!!!
You had me at Hello, then you drop:
PS If you're so enamored with technology and dependability,
buy and drive a Prius. We all know how trouble free Toyota's
are... oh never mind.
Gotta Tell you, 110K in 6 years on my wife's '05 with only oil and occasional
cabin filter changes. Well, there was the suicidal raccoon that destroyed the
front air-dam and the guy who side swiped her and kept driving. But
mechanically it's a really sound car. We're still getting 48+ MPG. It's my
carbon offset for the Healey.
Greg
--- On Fri, 4/8/11, Curt/Nancy Arndt <cnaarndt at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Curt/Nancy Arndt <cnaarndt at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Do Moss ign points suck or what?
> To: "Healey List" <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Date: Friday, April 8, 2011, 1:37 PM
> Part II
>
> As an example, our Bugeye's original 50 year old mechanical
> AC fuel pump
> finally gave up last year. I found a number of
> original period (NOS)
> rebuild kits in Australia, restored and rebuilt the the
> pump like new, and
> it works flawlessly. How many on this list would have
> just purchased and
> installed some cheap, POS Chinese made electrical
> pump? I have now rebuilt
> three other original pumps and have others asking me to do
> the same.
>
> This post is not specifically for Frank or Richard, It's
> for those folks
> either new to the List, to Austin Healeys, or those who are
> getting back
> into these cars after many years. I don't want them
> to think that you
> cannot dependably drive these cars, even now that they are
> 50+ years old,
> without having to put every new contraption or so called
> improvement on
> them.
>
> Off my soapbox... let the flames begin.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Curt :{)
>
> PS If you're so enamored with technology and dependability,
> buy and drive a
> Prius. We all know how trouble free Toyota's are... oh
> never mind.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Frank Edwards <logical2 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> I've had a Pertronix in my 69 Midget for several years now
> driven 5k+ miles
> a year. I carry a spare distributor but have never
> had to use it. I put
> the Pertronix in my BJ7 and expect no trouble with
> it. It only has about 70
> miles on it but will get driven if the weather ever
> permits. Unless you
> want your car 100% concourse why monkey with points?
>
> - Hide quoted text -
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Peter Schauss <rpschauss at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> This is just my own perspective, but one of the reasons
> that I own and drive
> a 48 year old car is that I LIKE to do things like
> replacing and setting the
> points and all of the other routine maintenance that a car
> of this vintage
> requires.
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