- 1. Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Brad Fornal <toyman@htcomp.net>
- Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 18:30:57 -0500
- Does anyone know where to get a RHD Instrument panel and what it may cost. Daniel, how readily available are they in the U.K.? Andy Webster, how about down under? Ideally I am hoping there is a liste
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00589.html (7,805 bytes)
- 2. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Gerard Chateauvieux <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 19:14:36 -0700
- If all else fails, I think Mini-Mania, and perhaps some other have fiberglass reproductions. Some mentioned some other options when the RHD conversion issue came up last week. Gerard G G Gerard Chate
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00596.html (8,837 bytes)
- 3. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Brad Fornal <toyman@htcomp.net>
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 05:24:17 -0500
- Robert, thank you for the web address but it doesn't seem to have any instrument panels for sale on it. Gerard, I recall the list recomending cutting the middle of the dash out and flipping it then w
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00603.html (9,550 bytes)
- 4. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 08:59:36 EDT
- Depends on the year of the car - you could try martin@cheshireclassic.demon.co.uk - this is one of a only a few companies I know who deal in used Spridget parts. Daniel1312
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00607.html (7,992 bytes)
- 5. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Gerard Chateauvieux <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 10:50:12 -0700
- What year is your car? The dash cone for tye MKI-MKII is the filler piece between the dash and the steering wheel. Also (originally) contains the contact to make the horn work. i knew a guy in Orego
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00622.html (11,078 bytes)
- 6. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Brad Fornal <toyman@htcomp.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:53:24 -0500
- I want to thank everyone for their help in answering my question, I appears I need to go see a local welder. I guess I was mistaken in assuming that there were dash panels just sitting out there in a
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00683.html (11,337 bytes)
- 7. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:42:43 -0400
- I thought "autojumble" was British for "swap meet". Bob
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00706.html (8,588 bytes)
- 8. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: "shawn tobin" <suhs2@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:09:13 CDT
- Yeah, "breakers" are wrecking yards (which we call junkyards) and have nothing to do with Michael Jackson who just got divorced again (she told him to "beat it")
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00707.html (9,744 bytes)
- 9. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Brad Fornal <toyman@htcomp.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:21:31 -0500
- Heck I don't know I just love their cars, I don't yet understand their language!! I heard once that they speak English but I have the darndest time with some of the words on my Bentley Manual ( "Prop
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00708.html (9,200 bytes)
- 10. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:44:28 -0700
- This is not an exact quote but someone said "England and the United States are as close as two countries can be that are separated by a common language" Larry Miller http://www.ado13.com When I read
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00713.html (10,319 bytes)
- 11. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:55:04 -0400
- Yes but the "propeller" shaft propells the car! Just as a propeller propells a boat (or plane) A drive shaft does not drive the car, a "driver" does that. The English have it correct. Well some times
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00716.html (9,839 bytes)
- 12. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: type79@ix.netcom.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:20:58 -0400
- Excellent response. Outstanding. Now for something completely different. Please enlighten us on the term "offer up..." as used in the factory manuals. J.Fishbein AN-5 Buckeye Sprite (yes that's what
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00722.html (10,381 bytes)
- 13. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: "Biff Jones" <biffjones@erols.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:42:50 -0400
- Can I take a stab at this one for Jay? "Offer Up" A reference used throughout 'offical BMC manuals when reassembly of parts are necessary. Most often used translation stated for this term is; presen
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00724.html (11,314 bytes)
- 14. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:26:58 -0600
- It was Winston Churchill who described the U.K. and the U.S as "two countries separated by a common language". His mother was an American. So was mine. Herb G. "Larry Miller" <millerls@ado13.com> on
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00726.html (10,458 bytes)
- 15. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: type79@ix.netcom.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:11:39 -0400
- Good. Very good. Are there any other creative souls out there? Without a response from Frank, yet, I'm sure something good is cooking, or should I say brewing? Jay Fishbein AN-5 HAN-6 Innocenti-S Lo
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00728.html (12,405 bytes)
- 16. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:07:54 -0400
- To offer up you need the following: 1. An angry god of British Cars, or Lucas. Many of these around. 2. An alter constructed entirely out of used British car parts. This alter should look like a resp
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00736.html (10,570 bytes)
- 17. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:23:25 -0400
- I give it a try.......... "Offer up" put a part close to where it belongs then mash it with a really big hammer. The mashing should read "bringing it home" -- Frank "Drive it Like You Stole it" http:
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00741.html (9,807 bytes)
- 18. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:45:43 EDT
- << in autojumbles (that's British for wrecking yard, right?) >> Not exactly. A scrapyard, breakers yard or car dismantlers is in the UK what is known in the US as a boneyard or wrecking yard. An auto
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00748.html (8,439 bytes)
- 19. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:45:50 EDT
- << A drive shaft does not drive the car, >> I'm disagreeing with Frank again! A drive shaft drives the wheels on a front wheel drive car or a rear wheel drive car that doesn't have a live axle or a d
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00752.html (8,386 bytes)
- 20. Re: Intsrument Panel (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:53:21 -0400
- Does anyone on the list have the perverse desire to look in Frank's toolbox and see just how many hammers are in there, and what is the largest? I also wonder if there is a small hammer in there, and
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00753.html (10,435 bytes)
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