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81. Re: Maryland Car Laws (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:45:32 -0700; What saved his life was the frame, not the bonnet. The bonnet is extremely weak, especially across the tops of the wheel arches (that's why there are reinforcing tubes over the inner fenders--so the; /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00466.html (8,976 bytes)
82. Re: Response to Classic Car Restoration factory (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:04:11 -0700; But, not to put too fine a point on it, you made a public request for responses to your proposal, so... you got public replies. Virtually none of us have seen your work. I don't remember seeing you a; /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00714.html (14,389 bytes)
83. Re: Response to Classic Car Restoration (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 02:50:40 -0700; Truly, I have absolutely no interest in discussing this with you. My time's valuable. Twenty minutes wasted on this email is all I intend to spend. Fine. Who cares who you say you know? I presume you; /html/spitfires/2001-02/msg00721.html (14,377 bytes)
84. Re: car movies (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 00:36:52 -0700; Blockbusters is part of the Viacom media conglomerate, and since that includes Paramount Studios, they give up space for such as the above in favor of their interests. But, in the interests of furthe; /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00075.html (11,228 bytes)
85. Re: Cross Country Adventure (long reply) (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 02:36:29 -0700; Well, I will say, cruise control, radar detector and CB were well after my last cross-country jaunt in a Spit. <smile> I have burdened list members with portions of this story previously, but for the; /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00077.html (13,933 bytes)
86. Radiator inquiry. (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:56:26 -0700; Every once in a while, there are questions about replacement radiators, and sometimes, less frequently, complaints about Asian-made repros. I have recently run into two or three sources for heavy-dut; /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00115.html (8,118 bytes)
87. Re: Steel Wheel restoration (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 20:45:16 -0700; I have mentioned this on the Triumphs list, but not here, I think. While the following concerns heavy-duty equipment, I suspect that wheels are wheels and the information applies. I work for a heavy-; /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00180.html (9,088 bytes)
88. Re: Is Triumph coming Back??? (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:29:22 -0700; Aren't idiots? They bought Rover, didn't they? <smile> And they aren't doing _that_ well... they are not a huge manufacturer, in global terms, and they were hemorrhaging money through Rover. That's w; /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00287.html (10,058 bytes)
89. Oops! (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:26:54 -0700; Was just informed by one of the VTR 2001 committee that I or someone on the other end of the line got some signals crossed about rooms for the convention--there are 70 taken so far, not 70 left, as I; /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00433.html (7,264 bytes)
90. KONI shock absorbers (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:41:52 -0700; Had to look up some information on KONI shocks (yes, they make them for trucks, buses and trains, too) and went to their web site this evening, and discovered that they are now making externally adju; /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00485.html (7,420 bytes)
91. Fastener information (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 03:23:31 -0700; I had occasion this evening to look for some specialty fasteners, and ran across this site: http://205.243.112.6/resources/ It's a Fastenal site, and has some excellent on-line fastener calculators f; /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00519.html (6,882 bytes)
92. Re: In defense of Italian cars (somewhat long reply) (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:50:17 -0700; The ill-will began, I think, in the early `70s, particularly. If you'll accept that there was and is life east of California, that's where much of the trouble began--in the salt- and silt-covered roa; /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00560.html (10,820 bytes)
93. Re: SPITFIRES!! (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:26:50 -0700; Volvo wiring diagrams are a sticky point with me, at the moment. Ever since Volvo's purchase of our company, they have insisted that we do things their way, including wiring diagrams. The problem, pa; /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00624.html (10,451 bytes)
94. Just a pestering reminder.... (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 01:55:17 -0700; Again, this year, while we're all contemplating gifts for loved ones, including the one in the garage, take a little time to pick up a Christmas toy for a kid who may not have much of a Christmas and; /html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00331.html (7,344 bytes)
95. Re: valve lash (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 00:33:52 -0700; Rocker ratio is not figured into the calculation. Think of it this way--when one presses the pushrod end of the rocker against the top of the pushrod, it cannot move. Can the clearance still be adjus; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00006.html (7,079 bytes)
96. Re: Triumph (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>; Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:54:25 -0700; Glenn, Chris, and others-- I'm a little disheartened by this reply. Over the years, I and others have tried to affirm that Triumph owners, wherever they may be, are a vanishing breed. As the cars dis; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00367.html (9,820 bytes)

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