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Re: coolant/wuz MGB hell thread

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Subject: Re: coolant/wuz MGB hell thread
From: mmcewen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (John McEwen)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 16:42:36 -0500
>Bob,
> Are the "anti-freeze" compounds you mentioned just anti-freeze, or the more
>modern anti-freeze/coolants? As for that 'rolling Gernoble' crack.
>Interceptor overheating is grossly overstated. True, there was a time before
>technolgy improved that the guvmint asked us to keep our cars off the road
>while they tested their infrared satelites, and yes, the British tried
>towing idling Interceptors on barges behind their ships during the Falklands
>war (to foil heat seeking missles), but the experiment was a failure because
>the Jensen's rusted away in the salt air within a couple days.
>
>Michael, New Bern, NC, with Interceptor that leaves soft asphalt patches
>each time it idles at a stoplight.

Hey Mike:

I would have thought the soft asphalt patches would have occurred as a
result of leaving the light, not idling at it.  I would also imagine that
they would take the form of two veeerrrry long, black, smoking rectangles -
each about the width of a tire.  Mopars forever!

John McEwen



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