- 61. Percy's diff (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 15 May 90 10:17:49 EDT
- Percy is back on the road again! Finalist for the Understatement of the Year Award: Installing the new diff was easy. Winner of the Understatement of the Year Award: Taking out the old one was diffic
- /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00320.html (8,382 bytes)
- 62. STOOOPPP!!! (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Fri, 18 May 90 13:15:29 EDT
- Not stoop, but STOP. Several things are happening. Please bear with me. The level of SOL mail has gone up dramatically with the warm weather. Several people have asked to be removed. Several are thre
- /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00412.html (7,678 bytes)
- 63. what's happenin' (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 21 May 90 12:29:55 EDT
- I have removed the left coast list (british-cars-local@decwrl) and restored all of the names to british-cars@alliant. I hope that will help. I do not know where the multiple copies are coming from, b
- /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00437.html (7,291 bytes)
- 64. work to do on SOL list (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 90 10:22:53 EDT
- Let's see, first day at work in a new month. Administrational details to take care of, only 1322 bounced lines of bounced mail over the weekend. First order of business, remove both mjb and Roger Gar
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00006.html (8,253 bytes)
- 65. 0-100-0 (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 90 15:08:28 EDT
- I remember reading long ago in Road&Track that an Aston-Martin DBS had been clocked at 0-100-0 in 12.0 sec. No one has ever been able to confirm my recollection, but I woulda' put this at about 1969
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00025.html (6,568 bytes)
- 66. various stuff (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 90 11:19:03 EDT
- Phil (R?), about what gas for your TR-6, use the best you can, like maybe Sunoco Ultra, unless you find you can run with something of lower octane with no pinging (or if you prefer, no pinking). The
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00040.html (10,697 bytes)
- 67. Spitfire for $150 (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 90 14:01:29 EDT
- Written by L.B.: Good question on the engine. '76 non-California was high-compression. Maybe just rebuild (or replace) with original. I'd bet the block is busted if "internals became external" tho'.
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00056.html (7,046 bytes)
- 68. Alpine (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 90 13:04:07 EDT
- I never had the cahnce to drive one when I was younger and more actively involved in sports car club events, but I was familiar with some. (I knew one guy who had four of them, but he was a strange c
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00084.html (6,771 bytes)
- 69. various stuff (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 17:02:16 EDT
- Listening for pitch through a hose is one way to synchronize the carbs. ......... Sharon and I were walking the other day and spotted a dead-looking narrow-mouth TR-3 in someone's back yard. It looke
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00130.html (7,981 bytes)
- 70. NEWS FLASH (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 90 11:21:09 EDT
- NEWS FLASH!! From the SOL news service. Waltham, Mass. - The early evening stillness in this semi-quiet semi-urban, semi-suburban suburb of Boston was shattered yesterday evening by the roar of a Spi
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00158.html (6,785 bytes)
- 71. TLA's (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 90 11:18:47 EDT
- Okay, campers. Time once again for a quickie course in TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms). SOL as first used by the fovnders three years ago was Sons Of Lucas, but that quickly got replaced by Scions Of L
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00225.html (7,263 bytes)
- 72. things that go bump in the mailfile (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 90 11:05:31 EDT
- I don't know how much of this made it out, so I'll re-send it: -- It felt greate to take the Midget to work today.FYi New England is enjoying its brief comfortable spring driving season that was crea
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00302.html (12,853 bytes)
- 73. various responses (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 11:38:11 EDT
- Fellow Lucasites, About octane boosters [from Howard A. Landman]... Howard mentions that benzene is carcinogenic and methanol is poisonous, and that all these except H2O2 are flammable. Toluene is no
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00333.html (10,298 bytes)
- 74. Tales From the New Hampshire Woods (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 90 12:00:53 EDT
- (I wonder how the Outback turned out this weekend...) The second bi-ennial Upper Right Coast SOL Gettogether happened this past Saturday at Rob Rimbold's place in southern New Hampshire, on the edge
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00367.html (8,488 bytes)
- 75. STO-O-O-PP! (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 10:50:40 EST
- Please ** STO-O-O-O-O-O-OPP !! HE-E-E-E-E-ELLPPPP!!! STOP!! PLEASE STOPP!!! Geez... I returned to work this AM to discover over 12,000 lines of bounced SOL mail waiting for me!! Please don't send muc
- /html/british-cars/1990-03/msg00027.html (6,730 bytes)
- 76. The state of things. (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 11:28:13 EST
- Actually, the line count was over 18,000 by the time I got around to editing the file. I *do* have to look at it all, just to make sure something doesn't slip through that I should act on, like some
- /html/british-cars/1990-03/msg00028.html (7,452 bytes)
- 77. TR-8 brakes, state of things (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 11:51:13 EST
- Well, it appears that SOL mail is okay. Today I came in to find absolutely *no* bounced mail! Either Internet figured out some process that violates causality and sent me all of today's bounced mail
- /html/british-cars/1990-03/msg00049.html (10,992 bytes)
- 78. torque vs. hp (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 90 15:09:14 EST
- Torque vs. power?? This come up every so often in rec.autos, and it is almost always botched. ANd with all due respect to several SOL responses already, they were wrong too! I am preparing a several
- /html/british-cars/1990-03/msg00065.html (6,543 bytes)
- 79. torque and power (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 90 18:58:11 EST
- Here is a longish explanation of what torque and power really are, and (I hope) what they mean to the driving experience (or at least to performance specs, which frankly are not important to me excep
- /html/british-cars/1990-03/msg00093.html (19,598 bytes)
- 80. torque again and finally(?) (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 15:31:16 EST
- Fellow still-awake SOL'ers, Some responses have come in from my Torque-Power posting. They covered a range of reactions... boring, great, huh?, yeah...but?, how do they do that? Etccccc. Here are a f
- /html/british-cars/1990-03/msg00140.html (15,393 bytes)
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