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21. MGD? (score: 1)
Author: "Doug Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:59:19 -0500
According to the Ford Communications Network (an in-house tv system): The new MGD roadster will be priced around $20,000 when it debuts later this year in Britain. However, European sources are still
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00850.html (6,376 bytes)

22. Re: "Ragtops" - Palm Beach, FL (score: 1)
Author: "Doug Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 07:28:34 -0500
[Snip, snip, snip] ^^^^ ^^^ This must be the V12 prototype car, which would explain the high cost. :O [Other cars snipped} Doug Mitchell
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00883.html (6,783 bytes)

23. Re: copper brake lines, [but not] radios (score: 1)
Author: "Doug Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 14:54:53 -0500
As far as bending forms, I have had good luck in the past simply using a large spring. You put the tube inside the spring, and bend it to the desired shape. Depending on tube diameter, a screen door
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00910.html (6,787 bytes)

24. Re: Green Hoses (score: 1)
Author: "Doug Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 08:17:44 -0500
I may be wrong, but didn't I just see that TRF now has the green hoses? Doug Mitchell Ford Motor Company doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00945.html (6,521 bytes)

25. Re: STILL no Start! (score: 1)
Author: "Doug Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 10:02:21 -0500
[Stuff deleted] First, has the engine ever run in this car? Second, if you misstated the "valves on no1 open", and really meant closed, try setting the dizzy so that the rotor points toward cyl. no.1
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00952.html (7,840 bytes)

26. Re: MGA frozen clutch (score: 1)
Author: "Doug Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 13:05:45 -0500
[Background on diagnosis deleted] When this has happened to me in the past, what I have done is to get the car nicely warmed up, and then start the car in gear. Usually after driving the car about 50
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg01108.html (8,344 bytes)

27. Re: British Re: Spitfire Bumper (score: 1)
Author: "Douglas Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 12:44:52 -0500
I have removed the additional chrome box cover on the back bumper of my '78 Spit. In addition, I have removed the big, ugly, black bumper extensions. The remaining chrome section is much more attract
/html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00230.html (7,168 bytes)

28. Re: British Re: Spitfire Bumper (score: 1)
Author: "Douglas Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 06:56:45 -0500
The '73 1500 did not have rear overriders, the '74 did though. I don't remember the '74 having the center box section, I think that it was added for the '75 model. Doug Mitchell
/html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00356.html (7,278 bytes)

29. Christmas Story (score: 1)
Author: "Douglas Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 08:10:37 -0500
the Detroit Triumph Sportscar Club. 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring...enough!!! You've all heard this before. Now let me set the record straig
/html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00406.html (8,174 bytes)

30. Re: Stranger LBC's (score: 1)
Author: "Douglas Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 10:42:50 -0500
Hello Scions; Regarding the Innocenti, I believe that both Gus and Ray are correct. I know that in Italy in the Mid '70's, Innocenti made a version of the Mini called, at least in Britain, the Innoce
/html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00622.html (7,435 bytes)

31. Christmas Greetings (score: 1)
Author: "Douglas Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 13:18:28 -0500
Fellow Scions, Reluctantly, I am unsubscribing so that mail doesn't pile up over the holidays. I will return after New Years. I will be checking in on the Digest, through my freenet account. As Santa
/html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00700.html (6,541 bytes)

32. LBC's in comic strips (score: 1)
Author: doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com (Douglas Mitchell)
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 07:04:13 EST
Fellow Scions, Anyone else like to begin their day with the funny pages? (I don't mean the editorials either.) Today, in LuAnn bu Greg Evans, one kid asks the mom what first attracted her to their da
/html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00003.html (6,810 bytes)

33. Re: overdrive switch for Triumph? (score: 1)
Author: doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com (Douglas Mitchell)
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 12:03:23 EST
I needed the same switch for my Spit, but was unable to find one here in the States about 6 or 7 years ago. It is also used on one of the Ford Transit vans. Available in UK for 5 or 6 Pounds. Doug M
/html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00016.html (6,813 bytes)

34. LBC's in Media (score: 1)
Author: "Douglas Mitchell" <doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 08:40:11 -0500
Hello out there. After a week of vacation and holidays, I am back to work. Did anyone else catch the "Before They were Stars" on the tube last night? Specifically, the gasoline ad with Farrah Faucett
/html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00753.html (6,637 bytes)

35. Re: Selling up (score: 1)
Author: doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com (Douglas Mitchell)
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 12:21:41 EDT
When I read that you were selling off your Spits and GT6, I had two thoughts. 1) You b**d. Selling this pile of parts at such an affordable rate, and I don't have the room to put any of it. 2) Thank
/html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00171.html (6,670 bytes)

36. Re: battery cutoff switches & alarms. (score: 1)
Author: doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com (Douglas Mitchell)
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 12:52:05 EDT
When I had the electric fuel pump on the Spit, I used a switch under the dash to disable the pump. As I approached home or whereever I was planning to park, I would flip the switch and shut off the f
/html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00173.html (7,261 bytes)

37. Re: Gaskets (score: 1)
Author: doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com (Douglas Mitchell)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 94 08:57:26 EDT
WRT Bill Yarborough's questions on gaskets and Chip Old's answer, I agree entirely. The head gasket should never have any cement of any type used on it. However, I have found that Aluminum spray pain
/html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00190.html (7,024 bytes)

38. New MG's, Austin Healey's, not Triumph (score: 1)
Author: doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com (Douglas Mitchell)
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 94 11:21:20 EDT
Fellow Scions, For those of you who don't get AutoWeek, I submit the following after reading Greg Petrolati's article of Friday, August 19. NAME GAME. Rover officials, delighted thus far with the BMW
/html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00293.html (7,478 bytes)

39. Re: SCA? (score: 1)
Author: doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com (Douglas Mitchell)
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 94 09:41:17 EDT
One of the easiest ways to remove adhesive is to spray on that one item that most of us have around the garage or house -- WD-40. It works as an excellent softener of adhesive. Spray it on, and using
/html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00525.html (6,569 bytes)

40. Re: Engine Swap- Buick Aluminum Block (score: 1)
Author: doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com (Douglas Mitchell)
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 94 09:45:52 EDT
I would recommend that you *not* go with the 350 cu V-8 Buick. As said, the original, "Rover" V-8 was an aluminium small block Buick. These engines were "o.k." but not great - why do you think GM sol
/html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00526.html (7,464 bytes)


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