- 361. Re: Scarborough Faire (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 14:35:11 -0500 (EST)
- a sparkling parody. BRAVO, BRAVO! Ray
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00445.html (7,097 bytes)
- 362. Re: Get a new car (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 14:41:22 -0500 (EST)
- Dear Ian, This is news to me. I had thought we were more like our english cousins than that. A few questions/comments: 1) I assume you mean 180 degrees in the horizontal plane; 180 degrees in the fro
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00446.html (8,080 bytes)
- 363. Bum rap(ping) (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 15:11:03 -0500 (EST)
- Dear Don, It is time to put this issue entirely to rest. I have taken the bull by the horns of the crux of the dilemma, so to speak. It is a hell of a low-tech solution, but I walked (yes, walked on
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00482.html (7,383 bytes)
- 364. Re: CA Vanity Plates? (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 14:36:56 -0500 (EST)
- Let's put it this way. If you choose license plate "75GRAND" you pretty much deserve an increased fee. Ray Gibbons
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00504.html (7,253 bytes)
- 365. Re: Bugeye Grill and Manual (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 11:43:08 -0500 (EST)
- There is an outfit that specializes in wiring harnesses for almost everything--I think it is something like Rhode Island Electric or some such. Check in Hemmings. They offer what purport to be absolu
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00724.html (12,653 bytes)
- 366. Re: Bugeye door check strap (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 12:18:56 -0500 (EST)
- I believe there are two brackets, an inner and an outer. VB say they sell both, but let me know if you manage to get two from them. I couldn't get the outers or the screws from them, although I seem
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00725.html (8,292 bytes)
- 367. Re: It doesn't FIT! (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 14:52:35 -0500 (EST)
- (they wouldn't fit and he must now refinish a second set) I think the lesson would depend on the student. I suppose you learned something like "measure twice and cut once." The lesson I'd have carrie
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00732.html (7,864 bytes)
- 368. Re: Air Compressor Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 17:11:01 -0500 (EST)
- Sorry, everybody, for the verbosity today. I've been in sunny Utica, NY for a week, and returned to 358 messages, which I have been chewing through today. Dear Scott 1, Well, I guess in honesty I wou
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00740.html (12,015 bytes)
- 369. Re: Bugeye Grill and Manual (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 16:56:03 -0500 (EST)
- Pozi-drive are a cross head screw that resembles Phillips. But the angle and/or depth and/or fit is different. Anyway, a phillips screwdriver comes tantalizingly close to fitting but doesn't, so it
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00741.html (8,075 bytes)
- 370. Re: Exporting LBC's (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 15:56:46 -0500 (EST)
- I have read that british cars are not taxed if re-imported to England. I am under the impression that this is why it is feasible for the british to buy lbc's here and take them back to england. But y
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00742.html (7,019 bytes)
- 371. Re: Nash-Healey (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 16:13:42 -0500 (EST)
- Body either built or designed or both by Pinin Farina, at least I think they had his crest and name on them. (Just so I don't get corrected, he was Pinin Farina then, later hyphenated his first and l
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00745.html (7,545 bytes)
- 372. Re: Canajun Members (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 15:12:59 -0500 (EST)
- Hmmm... A lot of one's reservations about S_X depends, I think, on whether your fannies are in front or in back. If you cannot get *that* right, S_X is likely to worry you. As well it should. Well, w
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00753.html (8,871 bytes)
- 373. Druther not change to a newsgroup (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 17:05:31 -0500 (EST)
- I work at a university, traditionally rather understanding of people who work odd hours and mix business with pleasure, so I can keep up, but I can see why others might have problems. It would help i
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00022.html (6,758 bytes)
- 374. Mouses vs. upholstery (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 10:16:05 -0500 (EST)
- In the frozen northlands (CA dwellers may delete, except those in Anaheim, who may have a worse problem than me) mice may try to make a home in your lovingly stored lbc. I am told that they particula
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00031.html (7,689 bytes)
- 375. SNOW! (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 15:13:16 -0500 (EST)
- Mercy, it is snowing here! Wish I had bought my friend's 73 Rover 88, named Dawg, when I had the chance. Wotthehell, wotthehell. Ray (Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the heat pump is so deli
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00048.html (6,440 bytes)
- 376. Re: Divorce hints (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 10:30:02 -0500 (EST)
- Hmm... Sounds like quite a story, and like you had quite a lawyer. There are days when I wonder if I will end up with the PICTURES of my lbc after my ex and her lawyers are finished. That IS another
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00074.html (7,434 bytes)
- 377. Re: Active mufflers (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 10:52:43 -0500 (EST)
- Good as far as it goes, but Lotus suffer from a lack of imagination (probably the Detroit influence). Having canceled the sound of the econobox, the system should replace it with your choice of Ferr
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00110.html (7,984 bytes)
- 378. Re: spring compressors (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 14:37:17 -0500 (EST)
- Indeed one can take a Sprite spring out by putting a floor jack under the A-arm, unfastening the upper trunion (trunion is a british term for anything that does not have a real name) from the shock l
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00121.html (9,832 bytes)
- 379. Re: Silver Bullet (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 10:56:02 -0500 (EST)
- If it happens only or primarily when you depress the throttle, you should check the accelerator pump in the carb. Ray Gibbons
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00137.html (7,399 bytes)
- 380. Re: Round arch Spridgets (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 15:02:43 -0500 (EST)
- I intended a simple answer, and ended up with a lecture on Spridget styling. It is a professorial disease; can't say "good morning" in less than 50 min. I suppose round wheel arches were introduced f
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00148.html (9,004 bytes)
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