Bob Danielson wrote:
> Let's face it...........Triumphs leak! :-)
Smiley notwithstanding, ALL British cars leaked somewhere or other - and most
Triumphs leaked
everywhere. Ask any early Herald owner.
The fact is that you people still haven't cottoned on to the fact that leaks -
good, satisfying,
meaningful leaks that really upset owners of newly surfaced driveways, were a
design feature built
into British cars with "hand-tooled loving care by wizened old craftsmen." That
was why you got
valve covers you could easily crush with 500 ft/lbs of torque on the nuts, cork
gaskets and crank
oil seals made out of old fag packets.
Don't forget, the majority of cars made in the UK were sold in the UK and we
Brits *expected* them
to leak. If they hadn't, questions would have been asked in the House of
Commons and people would
have written protest letters to the Editor of The Times newspaper. Fact is,
Brit cars have always
leaked since the beginning of time - so why go out of your way to do something
about it? Our weather
is permanently leaking, so why shouldn't our cars? In any case what do you
expect for a thousand
quid at 1970 prices - surely not *Japanese* build quality and
reliability?????????????
You paid peanuts, you got a monkey. End of story.
Hey, that was why you also got a 12,000 mile warranty in the sure and certain
knowledge you'd never
need it because the car would be stuck at the dealer for the first year of its
life waiting for
back-ordered parts that never arrived and allowing the rust that started in
England, accelerated as
deck cargo across the Atlantic, to really take hold.
And you guys are all still grumbling about this, thirty or forty years later.
I give up!
Jonmac :)
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