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Seeking the impossible (was halogen panel lights)

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Subject: Seeking the impossible (was halogen panel lights)
From: "John Macartney" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:26:08 +0100charset="iso-8859-1"
Chip Krout wrote:
I have to remind us all of the inherent "Triumph needle flutter" which still
makes visual intrepretation a bit of a mystery......it's just that now I get
to see the left & right swing of the needle better...

Steve Newell wrote:
A dim light also reduces my wife's awareness of things like speed -- a
good thing as she tends to comment when I go "too fast" AND "too slow."
In the TR4, with wind in her hair at night, how will she know if I'm cruising
at 30 in a 35 -- or 80 in a 65*. <g>

Which are surely some of the charms of LBC ownership? We live today in a far 
too specific
world. We demand total accuracy. Nothing less than perfection will suffice.
When it comes to owning and driving any LBC worth its salt that's 30 plus years 
old, a
vague approximation of what is going on at any given time is as much as we 
should
reasonably aspire to or expect. In my case, I have an approximately running 
engine -
sometimes its all six, more usually five, on odd occasions it drops to four. 
But that's
not new - it was an i'erent fault in 1970 as well so why should I worry?

Jonmac




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