- 1. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 06:38:56 +0100
- I am only 6' 0" myself, but can extrapolate. <g> I think your problem may be that your seat cushion is too new! True, but if I am replacing the steering wheel, I'd like to get an original. I picked u
- /html/spitfires/2001-05/msg00034.html (8,796 bytes)
- 2. Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:45:16 +0100
- Dear All, With the Easter weekend now upon us, the wife and child away, and four days of uninterrupted fiddling with Carly ahead of me, I have a few queries about original fittings in her. She is a N
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00363.html (8,930 bytes)
- 3. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 20:27:11 +0100
- Mine does now! :-))) Do you have a working Boot Light? I took the lens off mine today to check the wiring and replace the bulb, and there's nothing there! ATB Mike -- Michael Hargreave Mawson, author
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00426.html (8,490 bytes)
- 4. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 08:02:46 +0100
- Where is the switch supposed to be? I can't see one anywhere. I suspect that I never had one. ATB Mike -- Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea," published by Greenhill Books
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00444.html (8,516 bytes)
- 5. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 08:12:03 +0100
- Hey, this was a hell of a job, and I'm *proud*, I tell you, PROUD! :-) (The previous owner had decided to change the switches in the door posts, but hadn't reckoned on the tiny amount of play in the
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00445.html (10,426 bytes)
- 6. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Atwell Haines <karbuff@optonline.net>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 09:22:39 -0400
- FYI The TR6 boot light assembly is the same as the Spitfire's. Available from the usual vendors. The switch (on my USA car) is actuated by the bootlid hinge arm on the LH side. I can't remember if yo
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00468.html (8,888 bytes)
- 7. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
- Date: 17 Apr 2001 09:22:53 -0500
- Daffy seems to be pretty much identical spec to yours, just a very little later - her comm. number is FH125144. She comes with drivers and passenger side footwell courtesy lights, and has the little
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00472.html (10,578 bytes)
- 8. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:45:42 +0100
- According to the books, Daffy and Carly should be twins, with a few minor exceptions: I have the nice "TRIUMPH" number plate light housing, and you don't (change at FH116000). You should have the US-
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00481.html (13,863 bytes)
- 9. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:55:26 +0100
- The mounting bracket is a vertical piece of steel directly forward (i.e. behind, as you examine it from the rear of the car) of a striker plate on the left-hand boot hinge. It is visible next to the
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00482.html (14,514 bytes)
- 10. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:23:43 +0100
- Carly's are a mixture of the originals (made by Atlas Bolt if you must know!) and various replacements from all over the place. I suspect Daffy will also have had Atlas fasteners when new. (Ask a sil
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00491.html (14,221 bytes)
- 11. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:01:59 +0100
- Carly's bezels (and the ones in the brochure) are black with a chrome rim, which I think look rather tasteful. They are set off nicely by the chrome-plated dash screws, but goodness knows what is ori
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00492.html (11,736 bytes)
- 12. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
- Date: 18 Apr 2001 07:46:31 -0500
- According to the books, Daffy and Carly should be twins, with a few minor exceptions: I have the nice "TRIUMPH" number plate light housing, and you don't (change at FH116000). You should have the US-
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00499.html (10,670 bytes)
- 13. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:03:06 +0100
- So do I. :-) The latter. Mine are part number FZX1122PR, and yours are FZX1327PR. They are visually very different, but I couldn't tell you what the technical differences are. These are the last two
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00514.html (12,514 bytes)
- 14. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 19:54:29 +0100
- I'm sure Nigel is too. I do hope so. I once had a car that hated me - a '71 Sunbeam Stiletto called Jingo - and she was no fun to drive any distance in. As soon as I was equidistant between home and
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00515.html (10,317 bytes)
- 15. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
- Date: 19 Apr 2001 05:35:58 -0500
- Funny - I prefer small steering wheels, they make the already rapid steering on a Spitfire even more responsive to the smallest of inputs. It is true that it is a bit heavier at parking than a modern
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00530.html (9,358 bytes)
- 16. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: "Stephane St-Amant" <steph71tr6@crosswinds.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:52:35 -0400
- week Well, I still have the original steering wheel in Daisy ('69 Spit) and I'm 6'6"!!! What helps right now is that the seats are "flat" (read: foams are almost completly gone!). My left knee is ri
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00531.html (9,025 bytes)
- 17. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <doug@dougbraun.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:12:06 -0400
- Don't forget that you can adjust the wheel fore and aft maybe 4" or so. Moving it back towards you might help if you are tall. Just make sure you correctly re-tighten the safety clamp between the two
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00532.html (8,568 bytes)
- 18. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
- Date: 19 Apr 2001 08:30:08 -0500
- Already moved it as far as it will go - it certainly helps! If only the MG had got that adjustment too. Richard & Daffy /// /// spitfires@autox.team.net mailing list /// To unsubscribe send a plain t
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00533.html (8,111 bytes)
- 19. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: "Suzie" <suzie_bear@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:50:29 +0100
- [snip] larger I I have to agree about the wheel, but for the opposite reason. Being somewhat shorter than some, I found that the rim of the original wheel ended up directly in my line of sight, so th
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00540.html (8,328 bytes)
- 20. Re: Originality (score: 1)
- Author: PorscheRcr@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:15:31 EDT
- << I use a 13" Mountney, smallest I am aware of them making. >> I have either a 10" or 11" Mountney, bought it a number of years ago to put on the Formula car I had at the time and still have it for
- /html/spitfires/2001-04/msg00544.html (7,903 bytes)
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