- 41. Re: Head colour, aux oil (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:43:16 +0100
- I have two questions now that the machine shop has returned the head from my '76 TR6: 1) what color should I paint the head. Seems to me gloss black. Hole in one! 2) I will add the auxiliary oil feed
- /html/triumphs/2004-08/msg01464.html (9,583 bytes)
- 42. Re: TR4A IRS clunk (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:28:09 +0100
- Being something of a pessimist (and heard many clunky TR's in the past in their youth and mine) I incline towards the costlier end of things: The lower cost alternative is ridging on the half shaft s
- /html/triumphs/2004-07/msg01576.html (7,795 bytes)
- 43. Re: If the TR3 was made today (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 08:47:12 +0100
- Having been off-line for the last week, I've had a lot of catching up to do on backposts. I think it would be entirely feasible to re-create a sidescreen TR, while at the same time retaining the peri
- /html/triumphs/2004-06/msg01114.html (7,395 bytes)
- 44. Re: TR3 Timing gear cover coating (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:50:06 +0100
- That's about the mark, Geoff - good, honest, reliable Standard-Triumph slap-it-on-and-hope build quality for an unsuspecting world. As for the original enquiry, the product used was white bitumen, th
- /html/triumphs/2004-06/msg01163.html (8,217 bytes)
- 45. WHAT THEY NEVER WROTE IN THE BROCHURES (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:13:51 +0100
- Why do motor manufacturers (past and present) not design their cars with human emotions in mind? Standard-Triumph was as guilty as the rest of them. I've studied the brochures on my 2000 and PI and t
- /html/triumphs/2004-06/msg01630.html (9,368 bytes)
- 46. Re: Signs from 'on high' (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:19:40 -0000
- I've had one too! Having got CG back from her annual MOT, sporting a new free tax disc awarded to old ladies, it was time for a bath, pedicure and general titivation. It took the day and the results
- /html/triumphs/2003-03/msg00613.html (6,587 bytes)
- 47. Re: A ride at last (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:15:54 -0000
- And that's why I drive 'em all year round!!!! Neither were laid up for this last winter. Spent a fortune in time during the autumn scrubbing undersides and wheelarches before another fortune in money
- /html/triumphs/2003-03/msg00686.html (7,537 bytes)
- 48. "When this bloody war is over..." (off topic, no apology) (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:35:52 -0000
- And everyone has patted everyone else on the back "for a stupendously good job well done, old boy/buddy" perhaps we'll have time to remember two young Brits (among other nationalities) - one a Royal
- /html/triumphs/2003-03/msg00687.html (8,208 bytes)
- 49. Re: When this bloody war is over (Part 2) (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:43:54 -0000
- I'd just like to say how touched I've been by many off-list posts I've received during the last 24 hours. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. Primarily, my original objective was (and still
- /html/triumphs/2003-03/msg00737.html (7,157 bytes)
- 50. Standard & Triumph Press Car fleet on film (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:53:14 -0000
- Earlier in December, I was ploughing through some old copies of The Standard Car Review and my attention was drawn to an article in one of them about the company providing cars for a film called "The
- /html/triumphs/2005-01/msg00058.html (7,723 bytes)
- 51. Re: TR2/TR3 (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:17:06 -0000
- Phil Ethier wrote:We have a guy here in the Twin Cities who walked into a Healey dealer in those days and asked to buy a big Healey in black. They didn't come in black at that time. The dealer made s
- /html/triumphs/2005-01/msg00091.html (7,070 bytes)
- 52. Triumph Spares Day - UK Sunday 6th Feb (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:42:53 -0000
- I've had an off-list request from one of you who is planning to come to the UK for this event. Judging by what I read of last year's event on these lists, those of you who did visit were truly amaze
- /html/triumphs/2005-01/msg00139.html (9,088 bytes)
- 53. Calling Fred Thomas (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:11:04 -0000
- Sorry to bomb the list. Fred Thomas, I keep getting undeliverable message to your address at Verizon. Clicked on Reply to respond to your recent query and that was when the trouble started. Perhaps m
- /html/triumphs/2005-01/msg00140.html (6,606 bytes)
- 54. RE: NO LBC: Irony can be so ironic sometimes (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:41:30 -0000
- I take a somewhat fatalistic (and tongue in cheek) view on this general If you're driving a run-of-the-mill British sports car of the pre or post war era and have a serious accident at speed: 1. You'
- /html/triumphs/2005-01/msg00249.html (10,551 bytes)
- 55. Re: Opinion Poll - Shop Manuals (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:38:18 -0000
- You do have to learn British English to read these. I'm still trying to decide what "closeting" the gearbox and "cosseting" the transmission mean in American. Perhaps if you could type out a sentence
- /html/triumphs/2005-01/msg00312.html (9,008 bytes)
- 56. Re: Trip to the Motherland (score: 1)
- Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:07:29 -0000
- to the list, I have noticed that some of you may be living in England, I think! A few, just a few :) I am going on a trip there in June and was wondering if there were any car meets or shows that I m
- /html/triumphs/2005-01/msg00371.html (7,055 bytes)
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