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1. Re: battery cutoff switches (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Wed, 10 Aug 94 18:16:08 PDT; Will Zehring sez: Perhaps so, but what about a bank of four or five toggle switches, to make a kind of combination lock? The combination would be hardwired into the way you connect the switches, but; /html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00010.html (7,413 bytes)
2. Re: new MGD car (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Fri, 19 Aug 94 16:21:23 PDT; So, did they just put wheels under a large can of Miller Genuine Draft? By the way, we just found out that Metaphor is going to disappear in a couple of months. There is a nice severance package comi; /html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00264.html (6,778 bytes)
3. Re: What does SOL mean? (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Fri, 7 Oct 94 12:10:03 PDT; Cory obviously was in a different military unit from mine. For us, it was not "same old s**t"; it specifically referred to chipped beef on toast, with a gooey whitish sauce, and we called it "s**t o; /html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00783.html (7,702 bytes)
4. Re: Duct tape (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 12:18:14 PDT; Same thing, exactly. Incredibly useful stuff. As I have learned in many pubs, a U.S. pint has 16 ounces and a U.K. pint had 20 ounces. The ounces are the same volume, but there is much more taste in; /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00031.html (7,196 bytes)
5. Re: Duck/Duct Tape (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Wed, 3 Aug 94 17:50:32 PDT; That sounds as likely as anything, except that my dictionary says that the name of "duck" cotton cloth was from the Dutch word "doek" meaning "cloth." There is, by the way, at least one manufacturer; /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00128.html (7,655 bytes)
6. French attitudes (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Sat, 6 Aug 94 16:33:02 PDT; This was passed on to me by a friend, and has no lbc content, but I felt it would be of interested to those of us who favor cars from north of the Channel. -- -- *not checked anywhen close to daily; /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00177.html (7,674 bytes)
7. MGB engine weight (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Wed, 10 Aug 94 11:21:47 PDT; "Hundredweight." The "c" stands for the linguistic root of "hundred". It says here that it is "a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds in the US and 112 pounds in England." Wh; /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00257.html (7,310 bytes)
8. Re: battery cutoff switches (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Wed, 10 Aug 94 18:16:08 PDT; Will Zehring sez: Perhaps so, but what about a bank of four or five toggle switches, to make a kind of combination lock? The combination would be hardwired into the way you connect the switches, but; /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00275.html (7,730 bytes)
9. Re: new MGD car (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Fri, 19 Aug 94 16:21:23 PDT; So, did they just put wheels under a large can of Miller Genuine Draft? By the way, we just found out that Metaphor is going to disappear in a couple of months. There is a nice severance package comi; /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00529.html (6,778 bytes)
10. re: british car net (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Wed, 2 Dec 92 15:17:00 PST; Besides, it might crowd out Prodigy's onscreen advertising and make it harder for their censors to monitor their customers' mail. -- --; /html/british-cars/1992-12/msg00026.html (7,271 bytes)
11. Re: Winter Storage (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 16:39:18 PST; Yeah, but how do you slide the bag under the tyres? -- --; /html/british-cars/1992-12/msg00072.html (7,584 bytes)
12. Re: Jagwar or Jag-you-are (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 14:52:50 PST; Pooh on you. I'm amazed at how ferocious this discussion has gotten -- really going for the jug-yoo-lar. -- --; /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00060.html (7,081 bytes)
13. Re: LBC models (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Thu, 26 Nov 92 13:22:43 PST; I bought a rather nice TR3A model at the Palo Alto show in September. I don't remember the dealer's name. If you like, I'll see if the box has a manufacturer's address. -- --; /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00449.html (7,069 bytes)
14. RE: TR4 back on the road (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 10:39:42 PDT; Is a "blowlamp" what we Americans call a "blowtorch"? That is, a hand-held tool for spewing a focused propane gas flame under pressure? I find it amusing that the flame and electrical sources of hea; /html/british-cars/1992-10/msg00331.html (8,582 bytes)
15. Re: Question concerning a spitfire (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 11:56:39 PST; But after 10 to 15 minutes, it would start like normal, right? Back when I had a 1979 Midget (and long before I had heard of SoL), the same thing happened to me, and I was told that it was the elect; /html/british-cars/1992-10/msg00359.html (8,008 bytes)
16. DeutscheLucas (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Thu, 29 Oct 92 11:26:28 PST; It is raining heavily. (In California, this is big news.) This is the time when electrical problems like to surface, right? Well, my VW must worship the antilucas. The door switch for my ragtop Rabbi; /html/british-cars/1992-10/msg00430.html (6,684 bytes)
17. Re: What is LEFT OFF SIDE (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 18:00:33 PDT; I guess the knock-off heads have been beaten to death by now, Ne'ertheless, I find it curious that they used such redundant labelling redundancy. As was noted, the near side IS the left side (from t; /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00205.html (9,025 bytes)
18. Hooters (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Thu, 17 Sep 92 11:12:38 PDT; A bit arrogant, but basically true. Blessed be. As a bicyclist, I can attest that there is little worse than some clown blasting his hooter in my ear. (Lately, my VW Rabbit Conv. has imitated that A; /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00283.html (7,145 bytes)
19. Anyone near Utica NY? (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Thu, 17 Sep 92 18:46:45 PDT; I want to buy a TR engine, but it's clear across the country from here, in Utica, NY. Is anyone on the list (1) near there and (2) willing to take a look at the engine for me, to make sure it is as d; /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00297.html (6,957 bytes)
20. About that word Cheers... (score: 1): Author: rush@mnementh.Metaphor.COM (Ed Rush); Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 13:46:02 PDT; Well, friends of mine in Ickford, Norwich, and Slough have all used "Cheers" = "farewell" both verbally and in letters to me. The only person to use "cheerio" to me was a relatively old fellow. -- -; /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00467.html (7,340 bytes)

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