I have the three volume set of Smokey Yunick's autobiography. He worked
with Champion closely in the 50's trying to get a decent spark plug for
his NASCAR engines. I think he was pretty frustrated with them but they
seemed to have had the racing sponsorship scene sewn up regardless of
the product quality.
Ken Freese
65 BJ8 (Autolites)
74 Jensen Interceptor (Autolites)
78 Fiesta (Autolites)
92 SVX (NGK)
www.smokeyyunick.com
-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Al Fuller
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:07 AM
To: 'Mirek Sharp'; robertlarson@att.net
Cc: 'Tom Mitchell'; 'Healey List'
Subject: Re: [Healeys] spark plugs
One possible explanation for the wide variety of experiences with
Champion spark plugs:
A close friend and fellow Healey owner said he heard that Champion sold
different quality spark plugs [of the same brand name and model number]
thru different retailers. I initially found this hard to believe, but
subsequent comments demonstrated it might be true...
Al Fuller
al@bighealey.org
'62 BT-7
'65 BJ-8
'85 Rx-7
-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mirek Sharp
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:10 PM
To: robertlarson@att.net
Cc: Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] spark plugs
Hey Bob,
you wrote: : "Not a myth here....."
Didn't mean to be aggressive with the "myth" comment. Spark plug choice
seems to one of those things that gets people's dander up. What I find
confounding is how many of us, all upstanding Healeyphiles, can have
such different experiences. I do not know Ed or the other Champion
naysayers, but have no reasons to doubt them (someone correct me if I
should), yet I and a number of others have had a warm and rewarding
relationship with Champions. Weird isn't it? Champion have remained in
business, so how systemic can any problem be?
Just to see if I can further stir things up, my only bad experience was
with
Bosch plugs in my baby-poop yellow Volvo 242 (remember that yellow? -
Volvo called it Safari Yellow - right!). Perhaps it was the colour
clash with the
purplish pink insulator colour of the Bosch plugs.
Seriously, any theories on how we can have such different experiences?
cheers,
Mirek
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