- 161. It may yet run this year! (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 15:14:38 PST
- Well, last weekend saw some real progress on The Green Car. (To recap for latecomers: '71 MGB, bought ...five years ago TODAY, 12-7; used as daily transport almost continually till last April, when i
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00124.html (11,060 bytes)
- 162. Re: Checkbook Restorations (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 93 10:33:22 PST
- Well, this part year I didn't even have time to fiddle with the albatross. That's why it's December and the Green Car is still *almost* done. And curiously enough, it's also why I have enough money
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00144.html (10,140 bytes)
- 163. Re: leg room and mini-skirts (was 11EEE) (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 12:35:58 PST
- Sorry, Roland, but we *know* that I can fit in it. You'd go around banging on it with wire-wheel hammers or something... As for getting into the Seven with the hood and side curtains erected, Michae
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00204.html (7,981 bytes)
- 164. Contagious Diseases of the Automobile (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 12:08:01 PST
- So had anyone else noticed that when one car has a problem, it's often the case that other cars in the family will have the same problem soon after? That's been a common theme this year. It started i
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00205.html (14,570 bytes)
- 165. Left In the Dust (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 14:25:25 PST
- There's *so much* in this topic that it's hard to pick where to start. So imagine that this is a hypertext Zen garden, with a rock, patterns in the gravel, a stand of bamboo, a stone lantern, a juni
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00209.html (8,836 bytes)
- 166. Re: MGB B-Series Swaps (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 93 14:55:16 PST
- No problems. I have an 18V in The Green Car now, just waiting for some more time to get everything hooked up. That 18V was last used in a '65 chassis, so I think we're covered there, modulo the know
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00245.html (10,969 bytes)
- 167. Re: gearing question (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 10:29:28 PST
- Obviously; with the overdrive, 4000 RPM is closing in on 100 mph. That is the right solution, BTW, especially because gear sets for the axles used on the BGT (the "tube-type" axle, as opposed to the
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00256.html (8,877 bytes)
- 168. Re: Commercial Participation In This List (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 93 15:40:44 PST
- Here at Rationalizations `R' Us, I've got a thousand reasons (well, half a dozen, easily) why it's not only good for the British Cars list to keep Dana Henry's account open, but also why Charles Runy
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00291.html (12,117 bytes)
- 169. RE: MGB B-Series swaps (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 93 17:13:49 PST
- Randy fills in some details about which I've been blissfully unaware regarding the rubber-bumpered Bs: Gee, I've never looked under the hood of an RBB. From the sounds of it, I'm happier that way. :-
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00292.html (13,055 bytes)
- 170. Re: companies on the net (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 10:44:04 PST
- Not that I'm trying to pick on someone because of a .edu site in his mail path, but Mark's obvious inexperience in the business world has apparently led him to at least two mistakes, one about somet
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00323.html (10,598 bytes)
- 171. Bad Karma On Britcars (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 15:27:43 PST
- [. . .] Here's a story I don't think I've ever told anyone. It's appropriate to tell it now. In 1991, there was some discussion about a supplier who shall remain nameless for reasons that will becom
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00348.html (12,481 bytes)
- 172. Re: Spit' engines (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 10:54:04 PST
- Well, far be it from *me* to admit the superiority of a Triumph product to an M.G. product in ANY way :-), but there's some evidence that part of the problem that Dennis is experiencing is limited t
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00389.html (9,160 bytes)
- 173. Re: Locking Convertibles (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 13:58:12 PST
- I occasionally take co-workers out in The Green Car, especially for summertime lunches etc. (Best time was when I was researching the location for our company summer picnic!) Often, as we'd park the
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00455.html (7,734 bytes)
- 174. Stupid Starting Tricks (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 93 11:50:00 PST
- Well, it's almost all back together -- the Green Car, that is. I located the missing lower bolt for the starter and hooked everything back yesterday. I tightened the last couple of engine mounting bo
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00598.html (10,355 bytes)
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