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Re: GMB versus Firespit

To: Allen Nugent <A.Nugent@unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: GMB versus Firespit
From: msecres@ibm.net
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 00:13:19 -0500
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
References: <199803100255.NAA23092@sam.comms.unsw.EDU.AU>
Allen Nugent wrote:
> 
> Martin,
> 
> At 22:13 6/03/98 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Well, John, that's great, but I think you're overstating the
> >"unreliability" of the 1500.  ...
> 
> For what it's worth, I once saw a broken Spitfire crankshaft on the floor of
> a shop. The owner had complained about a horrible noise from the engine.
> When the bearings were removed, the crank fell out in two pieces. The
> interesting thing about the story was that the owner drove the car about ten
> miles to the shop, with a snapped crank!
> 
> Allen Nugent
> Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
> University of New South Wales
> Sydney  2052  Australia

Yeah, on two cylinders (or one, maybe), the car hardly runs at all. 
More proof of the pudding, eh?

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