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1. Re: Lurker Now Proud Parent of '70 midget (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 14:27:22 +0800
~ I have a few questions for my fellow midget owners. The title says that ~ the car is a '70. The VIN# is GAN5UA803096G. Is it really a '70? Yes; the second A in the VIN indicates that. ~ I've heard
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00033.html (9,289 bytes)

2. Re: dripping anti-freeze (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 14:12:44 +0800
~ Finally a warm sunny weekend. Drove the 66 MGB a bit yesterday. Walked ~ outside this morning to find a big puddle of anti-freeze under the car. ~ Further examination revealed that the drip was com
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00034.html (9,972 bytes)

3. Flirting and Foreplay (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 15:27:31 +0800
On Saturday we built the motor. Kim had found everything on my list except for the flex hone (TM) that everyone had raved about. The guy at the store showed her a regular hone ("looked like a windshi
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00035.html (14,075 bytes)

4. Re: Schlierer's response to Petrolati's obser..forget it. (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 10:40:51 +0800
~ WARNING. no lbc content. ~ Greg. I still think of Swedish cars as funky. What's funkier than a ~ SAAB 95? Or an early Sonnet? The Volvo 142(?) looked like a mid 1940's ~ Ford, and isn't that funky?
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00059.html (8,602 bytes)

5. Re: famous quotes (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 11:42:19 +0800
~ >regarding Jags in general, didn't Road and Track coin the phrase "Grace, ~ space and pace"? No, that was originally (wait for it... :-) an M.G. slogan of the Thirties. Jaguar copped it after the w
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00061.html (8,791 bytes)

6. Metalworking and Shipwrightery (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 16:48:12 +0800
So we pulled the original-style grille that TeriAnn swapped me for the recessed black unit off my '71 and set about cleaning it last night. Windex took care of the water-soluble dirt, the bits of lea
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00071.html (9,937 bytes)

7. Re: famous quotes (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 10:25:33 +0800
~ along with one from Graham Hill, telling a novice journalist why he ~ dropped out af a GP. ~ Hill: "Exhaust problem" ~ Journalist: "What was wrong with the exhaust?" ~ Hill: "There were little bits
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00093.html (8,625 bytes)

8. Re: Movie cars: Aston-Martin NOT 007's (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 10:37:34 +0800
~ My daughter rented Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". It was neat to see an ~ Aston-Martin drop-head cruising San Francisco and the California coast. I like the way the lovebirds lean on the corners.
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00096.html (7,191 bytes)

9. Re: Fixed the Adventure Damage (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 15:20:08 +0800
~ The car runs great, and, strangely, sounds better than before. Well, of course! The mechanical explanation is that you now have a nicely torqued head and you presumably set the valve lash when you
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00108.html (8,482 bytes)

10. Re: MGB Piston Replacement (Matt Silveira) (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 16:50:01 +0800
Of course, it's all old news now; the MGB in question is parked outside with 80 miles on the new rings. But Matt Silveira said something that reminded me of a tip for the list: ~ The main problem you
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00110.html (8,021 bytes)

11. Re: Grond the Hammer (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 09:57:43 +0800
~ The deafening silence at Scott's end of the line regarding his hammer ~ left me wondering if my memory had played me false. Then I found this, ~ which clinched it. Oh well, they always say that the
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00172.html (7,511 bytes)

12. re: TR8 clutch, car show (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 11:46:03 +0800
We seem to have this discussion every couple of years, Bill, and I've never received a satisfactory answer to what I think is the crucial question: Why would anyone *want* to use DOT 3 on anything, B
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00185.html (11,243 bytes)

13. Re: Overheating TR6 (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 12:03:33 +0800
~ Thanks again to all those who offered advice concerning my ~ overheating TR6; it undoubtedly seemed from your advice that the culprit ~ was a defective thermostat. UNFORTUNATELY, when I went to rep
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00186.html (8,783 bytes)

14. Re: Newsflash! (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 12:45:27 +0800
~ Anyway, it's on the road and running really nicely (I finally got the ~ electronic ignition sorted out and the carbs tuned up a bit). ~ Unfortunately, it really is hot & muggy with thunderstorms wi
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00190.html (6,988 bytes)

15. Re: synthetic lubes. Was Re: brake fluid (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 12:50:43 +0800
~ On a similar note: ~ There is a known problem with synthetic oils and british-cars. The additives ~ and bases in the synthetic oils are harmful to seals made prior to about 1980, ~ and will eat the
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00191.html (7,630 bytes)

16. Wonderful Cars Beget Wonderful People (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 12:41:03 +0800
My previously described quest for Wonderful Cars has led me down a number of avenues of research. I've started reading books on various marques, I've been communicating on a couple of mailing lists,
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00192.html (10,933 bytes)

17. Al-You-Minnie-Um (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:34:23 +0800
Off the subject of cleaning and polishing element #13 in its metallic state, I've got a question for readers who own cars with alloy cylinder heads and iron blocks; I'm especially thinking of TR7 and
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00202.html (8,009 bytes)

18. Re: Mini engine out (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:23:49 +0800
~ To my surprise all the nuts and bolts came off easily and none were ~ sheered. I drained the water from the radiator and the block but ~ water only dribbled out of the block. On removing the head I
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00203.html (8,613 bytes)

19. Re: hot mg's in New Mexico (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 10:28:30 +0800
~ Just a thought on cooling down MG's: I don't know what year this was done ~ in exactly, but the later B's had their oil coolers *underneath* the ~ radiator, which necessitated the fitting of a fron
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00245.html (7,906 bytes)

20. Re: Overheating TR6 (score: 1)
Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 10:17:21 +0800
~ Scott, ~ I don't know how to bleed a cooling system. How do you ~ do it? ~ Don Mathis TR6s may differ, though I doubt it from the time I recently spent peering over the cooling system in Berry's. B
/html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00246.html (8,408 bytes)


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