- 1. Re: Happy new Year - SOAP (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harrold)
- Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 06:56:50 -0500
- You said..... -- some text deleted -- I wonder if that's realted to "pick me up" (a pick-me-up being what some people call coffee) because tiramisu contains expresso. and yes, when it is made well, i
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00119.html (7,394 bytes)
- 2. Crosley Hot Shot (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harrold)
- Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 07:16:31 -0500
- Yup. It's a *SHEET METAL* fabricated engine. The original four-cylinder postwar Crosley engine. The outer case was COpper BRAzed together. The -- some text deleted -- Gotta tell you this one.... Back
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00121.html (8,335 bytes)
- 3. Re: Crosley Hot Shot (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 19:53:00 -0500
- I don't remember what that was called, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Hotshot. When I was a teenager a friend had one sans body, with a tractor seat and a box bed on back. It was supposed to be a f
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00205.html (9,328 bytes)
- 4. More on Crosley Hot Shots (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 23:23:06 -0500
- I think most of you must be too young to remember the Hotshot, so you can't form a mental image of it. They are not thick on the ground; I saw one at a car show last year, probably the only one I've
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00259.html (9,722 bytes)
- 5. Re: Mini Moke (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 09:58:05 -0500
- I think Dick Harold has stated the Crosley history rather accurately. However, while he is correct that the Hotshot was a roadster, I would certainly not have said there was anything jeeplike or squa
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00270.html (7,375 bytes)
- 6. Mini Moke & others (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 12:16:37 -0500
- A british car enthusiast who has heard of the Hoppenstand but not of the Mini Moke? Well, of course, *everybody* is familiar with the Hoppenstand and the Tasco Town Shopper. But Gee, Dick, what is a
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00286.html (8,875 bytes)
- 7. Re: King Midget (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:24:13 -0500
- My guess is he's confusing the Hotshot with the King Midget, which was >not< styled by...heck, the King wasn't styled at all. - --Roger ** Roger - The King Midget - wasn't that the car that came alon
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00337.html (7,314 bytes)
- 8. A last shot at Crosley (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 21:23:18 -0500
- Cannonball Baker drove an early Crosley from Cincinnati to Los Angeles and then to Chicago. The car averaged a shade over 50 miles to the gallon for 6,500 miles. As I remember, some ad materials of t
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00339.html (8,199 bytes)
- 9. Crosley's brush with destiny (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 22:03:50 -0500
- In 1951 a couple of Florida gents decided to place a Crosley Hot Shot in the Le Mans and dash for the Index of Performance trophy. A stock Crosley engine was modified for the event with 9 to 1 compre
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00340.html (7,359 bytes)
- 10. Re: Goliath (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harrold)
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 13:39:32 -0500
- How about a "the most obscure car I've owned thread?" A Crosley is pretty good, but from about 59-61 I had a '58 Goliath, which I would say trumps a 47 Crosley. Everybody is familiar with the Goliath
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00399.html (7,439 bytes)
- 11. Crosley gets its wings? (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:50:19 -0500
- Some one told me once that every B-29 (that was a WWII bomber for you younger SOL'ers) had a Crosley engine in the wing to power the Aux system in case one of main engines went out. Maybe there were
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00420.html (8,502 bytes)
- 12. Crosley in racing trim - revisited (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 21:15:34 -0500
- Hard to imagine doing 90 through Les Hunandierres while the big guys wailed by at 180. John R. Lupien lupienj@wal.hp.com -- clip here -- John Lupien Guess I should point out that the Sebring Crosley
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00421.html (6,888 bytes)
- 13. Crosley in racing trim (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 21:07:57 -0500
- Hard to imagine doing 90 through Les Hunandierres while the big guys wailed by at 180. John R. Lupien lupienj@wal.hp.com -- clip here -- John Lupien How would you like to be the guy in the 180 car an
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00422.html (7,024 bytes)
- 14. Re: fibreglas (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 21:23:54 -0500
- -- some text deleted -- engines. I just remember my first experience with fiberglas when I was very young was getting into the garage and playing with the fibreglas blankets. A quick lesson. That was
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00423.html (6,801 bytes)
- 15. Re: dates are off a bit (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 21:34:52 -0500
- I suspect some of these dates are off a bit. I owned a Crosley wagon in the late '50s and it definitely had a cast iron block engine and I'm reasonably sure it was a '47. Assuming I'm off on the date
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00425.html (6,971 bytes)
- 16. Re: Obscure Cars ... Depend on Location (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harrold)
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 07:49:43 -0500
- == some text deleted == This was my only British car so far, but my wife and I went to Stewart's Ferrari of Denver this weekend to look at their used RR. They had a nice Corniche, unfortunately it is
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00511.html (8,674 bytes)
- 17. Re: Vehicle titles (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harrold)
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 08:59:54 -0500
- Rob, I don't know what your Registry is going to tell you, but here in MA it's pretty straightforward. Here you only need the contract that shows that you bought the car. I paid $175.00 in total: $30
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00514.html (7,601 bytes)
- 18. Re: Bizarre weather & Kermit... (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harrold)
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 15:52:59 -0500
- Saturday and Sunday were exceedingly warm, with Sunday the warmest January day ever recorded in Burlington--66 F. The only disadvantage to this less than avid skiier is that the garage floor spontane
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00539.html (8,652 bytes)
- 19. Re: Obscure cars/RRs and Bentleys (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harrold)
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 08:56:12 -0500
- There are much more knowledgeable RR/Bentley enthusiasts than myself on the net, but I believe the first RR monocoque body was the Silver Shadow/ Bentley T1, made by Pressed Steel Fisher in Cowley, w
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00599.html (8,239 bytes)
- 20. Where did it begin for you? (score: 1)
- Author: harrold@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (Dick Harold)
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 22:21:21 -0600
- -- some text deleted -- So, out of curiosity I`d like to know how it all started for you all? Was it something that you saw on television as a child? Maybe a car that a neighbor had? Perhaps a James
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg01130.html (8,292 bytes)
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