Yeah, but my point was that even at the very end, they were still using
rivets.
Also, I remember reading in one of the books that the shut down was not
expected. So that it wasn't like they had to throw parts together to get
them out the door. Instead, they were left with extra parts. I don't know
which one is true. I just know I read that in one of the Sunbeam books.
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Marc James Small
<marcsmall@comcast.net>wrote:
> At 01:32 PM 5/24/2013, Jay Laifman wrote:
> >My VERY late SV Alpine, like less than 200 from the end, had rivets.
> >
>
> It also has a hand-crank nut at the front of the crankshaft. At the end,
> Rootes was simply emptying warehouses of any remaining parts in order to
> get the cars out of the door.
>
> I did hand-crank my SV Alpine several times but the I used to start my
> 36hp VW by wrapping a leather belt around the generator pulley after
> pulling out the hand choke. I had a bunch of easily impressionable friends
> back forty years ago.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir!
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