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At 02:40 PM 11/29/97 +0000, Paul Hunt wrote:
>Ray McCrary wrote:
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>> >... or valve bounce in the UK. I used to work across the road from a
>> >'garage', and their standard method of diagnosis, tuning and repair
>> >seemed to be to rev the engine up to valve bounce and hold it there for
>> >several seconds at a time.
>> >
>> >PaulH.
>> >
>> Sounds somewhat like an Italian tuneup! Only it was a Brit tuneup.
>>
>> Ray
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>Michael F. Adamson wrote:
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>> Delicate of you not to mention any names. From personal experience I'm
>> guessing it's a franchise.
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>Well, I didn't mention it at the time as it didn't seem relevant but the
>garage was an independant owned and run by Asians. Come to think of it,
>'Brit' is probably still correct. When I was a lad my Mum used to tell me
>"If ever anyone asks you what nationality you are, don't say 'British', say
>'English'". However, I was born in the legal entity of 'England and Wales',
>which together with Scotland makes up Great Britain, and with Northern
>Ireland makes the United Kingdom. Methinks our civil servants didn't have
>enough real work to do.
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>PaulH.
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