- 1. BRG, newsgroups... (score: 1)
- Author: Stardent.COM!jmuller@bu.edu (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 91 10:58:42 EST
- My 1969 Fiat 124 Spyder was a beautiful, dark, rich green, very close to what folks back then called BRG, but maybe a bit clearer. However, Fiat called it Pino Verde... The can of touch-up paint that
- /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00200.html (6,748 bytes)
- 2. ballast resistor (score: 1)
- Author: Stardent.COM!jmuller@bu.edu (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 91 13:23:43 EST
- Your ballast resistor picture is not quite correct. It would typically be in series in the primary circuit. Since most systems have a feature to bypass the resistor during starting, they would typic
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00007.html (9,250 bytes)
- 3. ballast again. (score: 1)
- Author: Stardent.COM!jmuller@bu.edu (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 91 17:22:09 EST
- I reread my note and gerry's, and I musta's been thinking his note said the Allison note said *don't* use a ballast resistor. It actually said *do* use one. I think what I wrote still holds. The ball
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00010.html (6,544 bytes)
- 4. Are "Whitworth" wrenches ambidextrous? (score: 1)
- Author: Stardent.COM!jmuller@bu.edu (Jim Muller)
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 91 10:47:40 EST
- Okay, are they symmetric, if not ambidextrous? My two cents: I've always heard to use them like this: /\ XXXXXXX XX this way --> XX XX And it sorta' made sense to me. The reason had nothing to do wit
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00136.html (7,506 bytes)
- 5. Hi everyone! (score: 1)
- Author: Stardent.COM!jmuller@bu.edu (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 90 11:08:35 EST
- Thanks to Dale Cook, Ovr Fovnder, New Keeper Of The Flickering Flame, for reviving the Flickering Flame. I am still here, but alas, the poor sysops here were not quite up to making british-cars run.
- /html/british-cars/1990-12/msg00079.html (7,205 bytes)
- 6. Don't use Clymers manuals! (score: 1)
- Author: Stardent.COM!jmuller@bu.edu (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 09:05:32 EST
- LRC has suggested (with regards working on a Midget): I also really like my old (25 years old) Clymer. and I have found that the contemporary Clymers is a good manual for beginners I had some experie
- /html/british-cars/1990-12/msg00129.html (7,018 bytes)
- 7. mail, timing, rebuilds... (score: 1)
- Author: Stardent.COM!jmuller@bu.edu (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 90 11:11:02 EST
- Intrepid leader, Dale Cook, Ovr Fovnder, New Keeper Of The Flickering Flame (we gotta' get shorter titles!), has written "Anyway, recently we have had some strange things caused by the repeaters." Al
- /html/british-cars/1990-12/msg00163.html (9,497 bytes)
- 8. clubs?? (score: 1)
- Author: Stardent.COM!jmuller@bu.edu (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 90 16:23:07 EST
- This quote "beware <your-favorite-marque> clubs where people don't work on their cars" from timke reminded me of my first sports car club experience, with Virginia Motor Sport Club (VMSC) in Richmond
- /html/british-cars/1990-12/msg00168.html (8,025 bytes)
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