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61. Re: Ammeter Oddity (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:03:00 +1100; I assume you've 'converted' (ie swapped the wiring round) on your ammeter for positive ground? - otherwise it will read the wrong way (neg. instead of pos. ) according to the sparkie I spoke to....; /html/alpines/2000-11/msg00350.html (7,720 bytes)
62. Re: Speed Kills (No LBC content) (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:03:02 +1100; I'd fight this.. Was the trooper alone in the car? What the trooper is saying is that while he was driving at whatever speed he was able to check the speed of one particular vehicle among many that w; /html/alpines/2000-11/msg00356.html (10,379 bytes)
63. Re: Gear Ratio (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 14:51:42 +1100; When you've turned the wheel once it takes up any 'slack', after that the ratio of tailshaft to wheel will be OK. The other thing is, with one wheel on the ground the other wheel will only turn 1/2 a; /html/alpines/2000-11/msg00417.html (8,911 bytes)
64. Re: ford/firestone (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 08:21:46 +1000; Sure Ford don't make tyres, but as far as I can see a car ain't much use and would be pretty hard to sell without them. Ford also doesn't make all the other components in its cars - a lot are just bo; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00017.html (7,803 bytes)
65. Re: ford/firestone (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:39:37 +1000; Fair enough, then I stand corrected. Bouquets to Ford for doing the right thing, brickbats to Firestone. Vic Hughes; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00020.html (7,512 bytes)
66. Re: Spark plug gap (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 09:10:08 +1000; Sounds like every Champion plug I ever met. I have refused to use them for When we were rallying a Mazda R100 Rotary we used to run those surface gap plugs. They were great - the only thing we could; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00045.html (8,082 bytes)
67. Re: FW: 2000 Runoffs Update (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 14:30:53 +1000; Seems to me you should be able to counter-protest on the grounds that a Toyota by definition cannot possibly be a Sports Car. Good Luck Vic Hughes; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00057.html (7,456 bytes)
68. Aussie Alpine sighting (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:02:24 +1000; Yesterday afternoon in Belconnen (Canberra) I was startled by the sight of a Red Series 3 , NSW registration no. AA322R. Startled because it's the first Alpine I've seen in Canberra for quite a few y; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00125.html (6,504 bytes)
69. Re: Imps (was Spark plug gap) (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:51:14 +1000; Moffatt won the Touring Car champ. with the RX7 in 1983, after running 3rd in 1982. One of it's greatest races though would have been Bathurst 1981, where Moffat came 3rd in the shortened race. He h; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00159.html (9,173 bytes)
70. Re: Speedo Off (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:58:51 +1000; I wouldn't have thought a cable would make any difference, because all it does is transfer revolutions from the OD speedo offtake to the back of the speedo - there is no gearing up or down effect. T; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00161.html (7,876 bytes)
71. Re: color (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:30:31 +1000; The one thing I have noticed about changing the colour of a car is that unless you pick a colour from the same era it never seems to look quite right. I've seen a few 1960s cars painted in colours p; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00204.html (8,485 bytes)
72. Re: color (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 11:05:42 +1000; Thanks Jan. I just wish I had known that 2 years back when they painted my car. Still it's closer now than it was (it was a Chrysler Aust. colour called "Little Hood Riding Red") when I got it. And i; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00206.html (8,256 bytes)
73. Re: Air Cleaner Gasket (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:04:59 +1000; An acceptable English way of spelling it, listed as first spelling in the Oxford concise dictionary. Remember they (and we Aussies) have a 'u' in colour, boots instead of trunks, bonnets not hoods ..; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00212.html (7,512 bytes)
74. Re: color (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:50:17 +1000; Hmmm I'm trying to picture a silver Alpine......... Maybe silver, like basic black and basic white is one of those classic colours that fits in any era. There were silver Porsches and Mercedes in the; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00233.html (8,583 bytes)
75. Re: Drug Dealer Floor? (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:57:42 +1000; hey chuck On reading this I immediately examined my floor for a similar compartment - after all mine was 'born' on Friday the 13th (September 1963). Then I realised that "the Prince of Darkness" is a; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00234.html (7,220 bytes)
76. Re: color (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:34:28 +1000; I can just see it. Goldfinger would have strapped him down to the Orchid Green Aston (instead of the table) As the laser got closer Bond says "Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?" "No Mr Bond, I ex; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00265.html (10,838 bytes)
77. Re: color (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:07:55 +1000; The Le Mans car was Seacrest green - a light green with more blue in than 'apple'. There's an article with pictures of the restored car in the Practical Classics issue that has just hit the newsagen; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00286.html (11,550 bytes)
78. Re: aztec (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:57:28 +1000; After all this Aztec talk I just had to see what they looked like (Not sold in Australia, which, after viewing one on the Pontiac website, is a defimite advantage for Australians) Still, you guys nev; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00306.html (8,573 bytes)
79. Re: Edsels (was: color) (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:33:42 +1000; I say it should have been called the PB Falcon (Au being the chemical symbol for Gold , Pb = Lead); Vic; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00355.html (7,368 bytes)
80. Re: aztec (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:23:06 +1000; That's a long story Bob. The P76 was the last gasp of Leyland Australia which of course had evolved from the various incarnations the Nuffield and Standard/Triumph parts of the British Motor industry; /html/alpines/2000-10/msg00376.html (11,116 bytes)

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