Dear Roadsterites, If you'll check p. F-285 of your Nov '05 Sports Car (vol. 63 #11), on the green pages in the middle column, item #4 under "Errors and Omissions," you'll find a small entry that ack
Dear Friends, OK. So Paul has chased me out from my regular list-lurking mode. A small rebuttal is in order. 1) Paul's clock does run, at least it was "put away running" the last time I had my hands
Dear Tim, Thanks for the high-quality reproduction VIN ID tag for my 69, 2000 daily driver. Really fine work! The only problem, now, is that nothing else under the hood looks even as half as new. Per
Dear Friends, And don't forget to check those upper A-arm bolts, the ones that secure the upper A-arm assembly to the frame: 2 on each side. If oriented as in the original design, the heads (origina
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:10:53 -0600 From: "Nathan Ruffcorn" <nruff@famvid.com> Subject: Re: 2000 for sale in PA FWIW I saw this car while visiting friends in PA a few years back. It's owned by a hig
Dear Friends, If you need to remove your OEM dash on a high windshield and haven't also the need to remove the windshield as well, here's a small tip for getting at those 6 dash-bolts at the base of
Dear Friends, Just back from a too-long string of back-to-back business trips. Paul's excellent summary of the Pumpkin Race at Nelson's (as usual) filled me in on the details of the weekend's excitin
Hello all from Pittsburgh PA A white roadster with a red racing stripe over the driver's headlight was spotted at 4th Street just off the I-10 in Santa Monica, about 1:15 PM Pacific local time. No ot
Dear Mike, As I learned the hard way, when a PO's upper A-arm bolt-through configuration snapped for me, metric grade 8.8 is equivalent only to Grade 5 SAE -- NOT Grade 8, SAE. Best, Teddy 69 2000 Pg
Dear List, This is a public THANK YOU to two great OROCers, Jim Sloan and Paul Kort, who sacrificed their Sat (July 1) to trailer my parts-car from Moundsville WV to Pgh. PA. So, now SRL311 11852 (En
Dear Friends, I'd like to change my old (cracked) high windshield dash for one that I've salvaged from my parts car. I have the entire replacment dash, including dash wiring harness, intact and undam
Dear Fellow Roadsterites, So you missed SHASTA? Have no regrets! This weekend is the climax of the annual PVGP: including 2 days of an impressive car show and even more impressive vintage car racing
I'd like to remove the tumbler from inside an original (late-69) locking gas-cap, in order to have the tumbler's pins reset to match my daily driver's key. Does anyone have experience removing the t
In Pgh. PA, once home to the 365 day/year steel-mill-smog, you can jump the emissions line with anything at least 25 years old or with Steelers plates bolted to it, not counting the driver. My son's
Dear List, Last Friday afternoon, fueled up in Pittsburgh PA for the trip to Mid-Ohio. The Pgh price for 94 Octane was $1.81/gal. (The most I've paid for that in Pgh. is $1.85/gal.) Friday late-after
This "I LOVE YOU" virus is being treated seriously here at Carnegie Mellon University, with numerous wide-band warnings from those who know hoaxes from the real thing. I append a sample warning, belo
I've appended an update on the state of affairs here at Carnegie Mellon regarding yesterday's virus. I include the (conservative) official advice, below, to give you a reference point for what count
Precautionary note: I must admit, I am not a roadster driver, in fact it gets worse. . . I drive a 1985 Alfa Romeo Spider. However, I feel justified in writing this list since I bought my father a '6
Dear Friends, Like most everyone else these days of the ultimate consumer, I enjoy getting the market's reassurance that my judgment is sharp by buying low and selling high. I served as the Head of m