- 41. Re: Cosby's Turbo Cobra (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 08:19:32 -0500
- Steve & Scott, As someone who has a cellar littered w/a fairly complete run of Hot Rod Magazines back to the 50s, I distinctly remember reading a page or two on that Cosby Cobra back in the 60s. I ne
- /html/tigers/2001-03/msg00258.html (6,958 bytes)
- 42. Re: tachometer (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:58:48 -0500
- The truly accurate solution is to buy a solid-state conversion & have it installed in your old case. They did mine at Mo-Ma. Al J.
- /html/tigers/2001-02/msg00056.html (7,137 bytes)
- 43. Re: Wind it Up (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:36:04 -0500
- Larry--The computer kills power after 5200, so unless you get a new chip there's no point of winding higher. Ford warrantee-smart.
- /html/tigers/2001-02/msg00163.html (8,473 bytes)
- 44. Re: Ziebart isn't THE thing! (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 08:42:24 -0500
- We've had a succession of Volvos for years, here in winter salt-land. The ONLY that ever rusted was my son's Ziebarted 144. None of the others had any sort of treatment. Can you say "dealer profit ad
- /html/tigers/2001-01/msg00035.html (8,797 bytes)
- 45. Thread repair (Not Tiger related) (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 19:34:04 -0500
- I've been using an Australian made thread restoration product similar to Heli-Coil. It's called Recoil and is almost the same, but it's stainless & seems better quality. I'm halfway through a job an
- /html/tigers/2001-01/msg00054.html (7,081 bytes)
- 46. Re: Riveting Article (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 08:46:51 -0500
- Aside from the "great rivet debate", your Le Mans Tiger has propelled you to center stage in the February issue of Mustangs & Fords. Great looking restoration. And your revival of the original wheels
- /html/tigers/2001-01/msg00071.html (6,667 bytes)
- 47. Re: Thread repair (Not Tiger related) (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 19:46:25 -0500
- Thanks for the marylandmetrics.com tip. They were great, had a great website and even an 800 number. And they had just what I needed in stock. Imagine, even stocked whitworth helicoils! Listers, thi
- /html/tigers/2001-01/msg00087.html (6,866 bytes)
- 48. Re: rivet overview auction (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 19:18:05 -0500
- Gee, I've got an unopened NOS packet of those side chrome rivets, too. You mean that I can't trade them for a Book of Norman on Ebay? Al J
- /html/tigers/2001-01/msg00101.html (7,189 bytes)
- 49. Re: RX rotary question (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:42:59 -0500
- You left out the fact that it has to be a lot more fun to drive than the HP-deficient stocker. Al J.
- /html/tigers/2001-01/msg00133.html (9,073 bytes)
- 50. "Re: Q' Ships (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:46:29 -0500
- You are VERY wrong as to the success achieved by the German armed merchant raiders during WW2. May I recommend "The Secret Raiders" by David Woodward, which traces the successes of ten such raiders.
- /html/tigers/2001-01/msg00217.html (8,711 bytes)
- 51. Re: Getting Bent by The Chrome Shop (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:54:30 -0500
- The bumperette rubbers should NEVER be folded over. They are retained thru the bumperettes by little oval clips which I recall had teeth on the inside to grip the bumperette tab. When they are folded
- /html/tigers/2001-01/msg00218.html (8,470 bytes)
- 52. Re: i got ripped off!!!!!!! (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:36:41 -0500
- Chris--Was that trade sourced from the Corral parts list?? I've had nothing but good luck from that source. Just wondering. Al Johnson
- /html/tigers/2001-01/msg00259.html (8,126 bytes)
- 53. Re: Perfect Tubing Flare (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:28:02 -0500
- The new issue of Street Rodder has a review of a revolutionary, new flaring tool that looks high quality AND expensive, tho no price is listed--a phone number was. Al J.
- /html/tigers/2001-01/msg00291.html (7,659 bytes)
- 54. Re: Go Silicone! (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:41:07 -0500
- I was put off by the general recommendation that the entire system be rebuilt and cleaned before switching to silicone, so I went to the 2-quart flush also. But before flushing, I ran a can of denatu
- /html/tigers/2000-12/msg00023.html (9,563 bytes)
- 55. Re: hard top windows (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:34:34 -0500
- I recall a long-ago CAT tech tip about cutting down an early 60s or 70s Chevy windshield that could be made to fit the rear window of the factory hardtop. The problem at that time was finding one th
- /html/tigers/2000-12/msg00061.html (6,888 bytes)
- 56. Re: Mythos Miata... (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 08:54:00 -0500
- Rande et all, I hate derivative Japanese cars as much as the next guy, but it hasn't escaped me that the illustrious columnist Peter Egan of R & T fame loves his Miata & raves about it at every oppor
- /html/tigers/2000-12/msg00111.html (6,438 bytes)
- 57. Re: 2.88 gear set & driveshaft for Tiger (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:56:45 -0500
- How about two gearsets for $50? Xmas sale.
- /html/tigers/2000-12/msg00125.html (6,799 bytes)
- 58. Re: High Price (Tiger) Spreads (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:32:51 -0500
- I was tempted to depart from my usual newstand "skim read-only" of C&S when I saw the current issue had a neat-o calendar included--but $7.95? Can the $ really be that weak against the pound? I wrote
- /html/tigers/2000-12/msg00131.html (7,916 bytes)
- 59. Re: Shades of the Past (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:40:21 -0500
- Yes, I think so--that last Tiger shows up regularly in the Brit mags. Think Rootes got that paint from Mercedes??? Until I saw that Tiger 2 shade, I thought M-B had the market for ugly gastrointestin
- /html/tigers/2000-12/msg00144.html (6,948 bytes)
- 60. Re: An Alcohol Laxative (score: 1)
- Author: twojohnsons@home.com
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:46:26 -0500
- I purged mine with ordinary hardware store alcohol--whatever that is--and then filled w/Silicone. I did "waste" an expensive extra quart of silicone by bleeding it thru until no alcohol remnant bubbl
- /html/tigers/2000-11/msg00008.html (7,004 bytes)
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