re: the reliability string:
It seems you always hear about LBC's never working, being hard to
fix, unreliable, and so on. One thing I have seemed to notice with
comment like the one we all seem to hear, is that the person saying it
has either never owned a brit cr, or could less about them when they
did. Maybe their brother had one once, and it had electrical problems,
ran funny, etc. The brothers other car was probably a ratted out
'73 Trans Am too.
I have driven my trusty spitfire through a whole Boston winter, logging
over 10,000 (yes 10,000) miles in under 5 months, with not one instance
of trouble. Yes, you need to check under the hood and make sure
the gods are kept happy by by minor checking, or fiddling, and that
takes 1/2 hour a week.
It's like the people who rave about (insert favorite status symbol
car), and how perfectly reliable they are, compared to that (insert
AMC Gremlin type car) POS car they had once. On the one car, they
never take care of it, change oil, replace anything, they drive into
the dirt and wonder why it doesn't last. The other car they take in
to see Swen or Klaus and spend big money and lots of time in the shop
to have it last forever. And it does. Of course.
My britcar is jsut as reliable, and a heck of a lot more fun than
anything I own. All my cars have the sme level of care, and the spitfire
is as reliable as a brick. No fuss, stranding at night, none of that.
I've rambled, but it's annoying hearing it all the time.
Greg
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