oily coils

["James A. TenCate" <jtc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>]

Most of you read about my electrical gremlin the other day (it turned
out to be a bad coil).  I was relating the story to a friend of mine
and telling him how the coil was a little oily -- perhaps because it was
starting to leak.  His comment:  Isn't it weird how no matter WHAT breaks
on a british car, it always has to leak oil? 

(and I always thought that british electrical stuff ran on smoke...  :-)  :-)
jim