- 321. Re: Ford Fiesta (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 10:48:22 EST
- As an Old Fa*t that can't tell a toyota from a Nissan, from a Ford, from a Hyundai, from most anthing else of the econobox series these days, I think most designers went to the same school, smoked t
- /html/spridgets/1999-01/msg01305.html (7,627 bytes)
- 322. Re: Distractions and Announcements (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:40:06 EST
- ..sure, go ahead and get married, why should you be happy.. Seriously, glad you found someone to share your car passions too. All the best. Robert Houston 74 Midget, Katy
- /html/spridgets/1999-01/msg01439.html (7,573 bytes)
- 323. Re: Off for awhile (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 16:41:15 EST
- Did everyone go with Kevin and nobody told me where? I know you arn't all Falcon and Bronco fans starting the party early. Did I fall off the list, or did MJB finally od on electrons and blow up the
- /html/spridgets/1999-01/msg01507.html (6,832 bytes)
- 324. Re: Radiator Stuff (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:06:23 EST
- Terriffic...finally a simple easy to understand explaination. Don't mean to go off the deep end here, but on other lists the discussion of cross flow vs whatever could have included trips into the es
- /html/spridgets/1998-12/msg00263.html (7,929 bytes)
- 325. Re: Radiator Stuff (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 19:18:32 EST
- SEE!!! A FUGITIVE FROM THE TRI**H LIST!!!! ...my head hurts already.... Robert Houston "other than the problem with the parage Mrs. Kennedy, do you know how your radiator works?"
- /html/spridgets/1998-12/msg00338.html (7,882 bytes)
- 326. Re: Found; '74 MG Midget For Sale (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 14:00:33 EST
- I bought my '74 a few months ago for $1300. It runs well, no major problems, and showed 90K miles when I got it. I've added a new top and will be redoing the interior sometime. I'm still contemplati
- /html/spridgets/1998-12/msg00463.html (8,381 bytes)
- 327. Re: '74 Midget Fuel Pump Woes - Help Please? (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:07:03 EST
- If it is a non vented tank, you should have a vented cap. Kind of like trying to pour cas out of a can without opening the vent cap. Sounds like your pump was pulling against a vacum. If it will sta
- /html/spridgets/1998-12/msg00664.html (7,344 bytes)
- 328. Re: Concrete Floors (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:50:30 EST
- Check with Grainger, or a commercial contractor. Nearly all new warehouses use a commercial sealant that is super. Probably only comes in 5 or 55 gallon sizes though. Maybe you could find a contracto
- /html/spridgets/1998-12/msg00761.html (8,073 bytes)
- 329. Re: I'm not a traitor but...follow up (no LBC content) (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 12:52:02 EST
- The Fury sounds neat, but I hope it wasn't the white one with a black convertible top that passed through here on I-10 week before last. It was on a car transporter and looked very cherry, but the dr
- /html/spridgets/1998-12/msg00805.html (8,066 bytes)
- 330. Re: Alternator Wiring - Help (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:02:51 EST
- If our resident spridget geniuses cannot figure this out, try Dan Masters on the Triumph list. I can't recall his email address, but he is a retried electrical engineer, that speaks plain english, a
- /html/spridgets/1998-12/msg00809.html (7,738 bytes)
- 331. Re: Heads off, what next (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:23:48 EST
- The real question I think, is what do you want to do? In my younger years I patched and fixed, and drove cars held together with bailing wire. Yeas, an orge juice can and two coat hangers will fix an
- /html/spridgets/1998-11/msg00833.html (8,925 bytes)
- 332. Re: Sprite for sale (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 18:54:37 EST
- Just one bit of advice: DON'T SELL IT! Been there twice, sold them both and have regretted it ever since. I took me 20+ years to get my third, but not a month went by that I did not see one somewher
- /html/spridgets/1998-11/msg00906.html (7,093 bytes)
- 333. Re: Machine shop chatter (no lbc) (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:14:47 EST
- With "5th floor types" making nearly 500 times what the average worker makes today and the middle class slowly disappearing accordingly, the average worker can no longer afford the quality he could b
- /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00242.html (10,301 bytes)
- 334. Re: Machine shop chatter (no lbc) (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:57:22 EST
- Of course, "the other half", lacking an adequate education (which is mostly their own damned fault), along with, possibly, motivational difficulties, struggles to find decent jobs, in the shadow of t
- /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00247.html (10,759 bytes)
- 335. Re: Machine shop chatter (no lbc) (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:51:01 EST
- 4 Amen to that, Kate! Here here! 5 more payments and the house is paid off. The guest house next door only costs us $450 a month, and when we add our current payment to that payment, it should be pai
- /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00260.html (10,432 bytes)
- 336. Re: Machine shop chatter (no lbc) (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 22:52:09 EST
- The 500% refers to fortune 500 company CEO's. OK...how about some more figures then. I know we use the Fortune 500 companies as a benchmark, but what percentage of the working middle class do they em
- /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00285.html (9,252 bytes)
- 337. Re: Machine shop chatter (no lbc) (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:06:37 EST
- The average CFO salary for 2002 (it has been going up) was $7,300,000 plus bonus. The average working man/woman salary in the US is 70,000 as of the latest survey released just days ago. Remember tha
- /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00287.html (8,985 bytes)
- 338. Re: Not suitable for those of a nervous disposition... (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 16:47:56 EST
- (http://www.project55.co.uk/html/Damage/) Ok..got it working now. The jags were bad enough, but lordy, they smashed a good old Ford pickup! Robert Houston Texan in NM 73 MG Midget 74.5 MGBGT 63 TR4 T
- /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00340.html (9,220 bytes)
- 339. Re: Ebay Story (Long) (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 20:13:48 EST
- Give us his ebay name or item number so we can all ask him if whatever else he is selling has any paint on it. I agree with Frank. We can bombard all of his auctions with "is there any paint overspra
- /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00355.html (9,260 bytes)
- 340. Re: Ebay Story (Long) (score: 1)
- Author: RBHouston@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 22:20:37 EST
- I guess that if your customer has a gun, you keep things on the up and up. :-) "An armed society is a polite society" Robert B. Houston Texan in NM 73 Midget and others John Bernard Books (The Shooti
- /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00413.html (8,647 bytes)
This search system is powered by
Namazu