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Subject: Quizzes and ZSs
From: <amace%sedofis%sed.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 17:00:43 EST
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  Regarding the quiz: a Knave Key is something one might use to
  unlock the door to the male servant's room. As Webster's New
  Collegiate Dictionary (8th ed.) defines nave as *the hub of a
  wheel*, it would follow that a NAVE key would be something along
  the lines of a lug wrench. The other possibility is that it is
  the device one uses to *prise* off the nave plate, what we
  colonists call a hub cap.

  BTW, an Austin Martin is that little bird that makes a nest in
  your A-90 as soon as you store it in the barn for the winter.
  And, in my best *Tool Time* voice, do they call the ZS
  carburetors Constant Depression because that's how you feel
  whenever you work on them? [I don't think so, Tim.] Worst
  problem I ever encountered with them in many years of driving
  the GT6+ was almost yearly tearing of a diaphragm (usually right
  in the middle of my best autocross run!). Of course, if you
  routinely carry plastic electrical tape, like every good SOLer
  should, you can survive for weeks, maybe months, just with a
  little piece of tape over the tear. Yes, it really works.

  -- Andy Mace

  **Carburetor is a French word meaning *leave it alone*.** --
  Dick O'Kane
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