- 1. Re: Lurker Now Proud Parent of '70 midget (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 14:27:22 +0800
- ~ I have a few questions for my fellow midget owners. The title says that ~ the car is a '70. The VIN# is GAN5UA803096G. Is it really a '70? Yes; the second A in the VIN indicates that. ~ I've heard
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00033.html (9,289 bytes)
- 2. Re: dripping anti-freeze (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 14:12:44 +0800
- ~ Finally a warm sunny weekend. Drove the 66 MGB a bit yesterday. Walked ~ outside this morning to find a big puddle of anti-freeze under the car. ~ Further examination revealed that the drip was com
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00034.html (9,972 bytes)
- 3. Flirting and Foreplay (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 15:27:31 +0800
- On Saturday we built the motor. Kim had found everything on my list except for the flex hone (TM) that everyone had raved about. The guy at the store showed her a regular hone ("looked like a windshi
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00035.html (14,075 bytes)
- 4. Re: Schlierer's response to Petrolati's obser..forget it. (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 10:40:51 +0800
- ~ WARNING. no lbc content. ~ Greg. I still think of Swedish cars as funky. What's funkier than a ~ SAAB 95? Or an early Sonnet? The Volvo 142(?) looked like a mid 1940's ~ Ford, and isn't that funky?
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00059.html (8,602 bytes)
- 5. Re: famous quotes (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 11:42:19 +0800
- ~ >regarding Jags in general, didn't Road and Track coin the phrase "Grace, ~ space and pace"? No, that was originally (wait for it... :-) an M.G. slogan of the Thirties. Jaguar copped it after the w
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00061.html (8,791 bytes)
- 6. Metalworking and Shipwrightery (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 16:48:12 +0800
- So we pulled the original-style grille that TeriAnn swapped me for the recessed black unit off my '71 and set about cleaning it last night. Windex took care of the water-soluble dirt, the bits of lea
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00071.html (9,937 bytes)
- 7. Re: famous quotes (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 10:25:33 +0800
- ~ along with one from Graham Hill, telling a novice journalist why he ~ dropped out af a GP. ~ Hill: "Exhaust problem" ~ Journalist: "What was wrong with the exhaust?" ~ Hill: "There were little bits
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00093.html (8,625 bytes)
- 8. Re: Movie cars: Aston-Martin NOT 007's (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 10:37:34 +0800
- ~ My daughter rented Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". It was neat to see an ~ Aston-Martin drop-head cruising San Francisco and the California coast. I like the way the lovebirds lean on the corners.
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00096.html (7,191 bytes)
- 9. Re: Fixed the Adventure Damage (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 15:20:08 +0800
- ~ The car runs great, and, strangely, sounds better than before. Well, of course! The mechanical explanation is that you now have a nicely torqued head and you presumably set the valve lash when you
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00108.html (8,482 bytes)
- 10. Re: MGB Piston Replacement (Matt Silveira) (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 16:50:01 +0800
- Of course, it's all old news now; the MGB in question is parked outside with 80 miles on the new rings. But Matt Silveira said something that reminded me of a tip for the list: ~ The main problem you
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00110.html (8,021 bytes)
- 11. Re: Grond the Hammer (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 09:57:43 +0800
- ~ The deafening silence at Scott's end of the line regarding his hammer ~ left me wondering if my memory had played me false. Then I found this, ~ which clinched it. Oh well, they always say that the
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00172.html (7,511 bytes)
- 12. re: TR8 clutch, car show (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 11:46:03 +0800
- We seem to have this discussion every couple of years, Bill, and I've never received a satisfactory answer to what I think is the crucial question: Why would anyone *want* to use DOT 3 on anything, B
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00185.html (11,243 bytes)
- 13. Re: Overheating TR6 (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 12:03:33 +0800
- ~ Thanks again to all those who offered advice concerning my ~ overheating TR6; it undoubtedly seemed from your advice that the culprit ~ was a defective thermostat. UNFORTUNATELY, when I went to rep
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00186.html (8,783 bytes)
- 14. Re: Newsflash! (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 12:45:27 +0800
- ~ Anyway, it's on the road and running really nicely (I finally got the ~ electronic ignition sorted out and the carbs tuned up a bit). ~ Unfortunately, it really is hot & muggy with thunderstorms wi
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00190.html (6,988 bytes)
- 15. Re: synthetic lubes. Was Re: brake fluid (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 12:50:43 +0800
- ~ On a similar note: ~ There is a known problem with synthetic oils and british-cars. The additives ~ and bases in the synthetic oils are harmful to seals made prior to about 1980, ~ and will eat the
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00191.html (7,630 bytes)
- 16. Wonderful Cars Beget Wonderful People (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 12:41:03 +0800
- My previously described quest for Wonderful Cars has led me down a number of avenues of research. I've started reading books on various marques, I've been communicating on a couple of mailing lists,
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00192.html (10,933 bytes)
- 17. Al-You-Minnie-Um (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:34:23 +0800
- Off the subject of cleaning and polishing element #13 in its metallic state, I've got a question for readers who own cars with alloy cylinder heads and iron blocks; I'm especially thinking of TR7 and
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00202.html (8,009 bytes)
- 18. Re: Mini engine out (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:23:49 +0800
- ~ To my surprise all the nuts and bolts came off easily and none were ~ sheered. I drained the water from the radiator and the block but ~ water only dribbled out of the block. On removing the head I
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00203.html (8,613 bytes)
- 19. Re: hot mg's in New Mexico (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 10:28:30 +0800
- ~ Just a thought on cooling down MG's: I don't know what year this was done ~ in exactly, but the later B's had their oil coolers *underneath* the ~ radiator, which necessitated the fitting of a fron
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00245.html (7,906 bytes)
- 20. Re: Overheating TR6 (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 10:17:21 +0800
- ~ Scott, ~ I don't know how to bleed a cooling system. How do you ~ do it? ~ Don Mathis TR6s may differ, though I doubt it from the time I recently spent peering over the cooling system in Berry's. B
- /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00246.html (8,408 bytes)
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