Long gone from lead poisoning....
Alan
'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Simon Lachlan
<simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk>wrote:
> And when I was at university, TCD, in Dublin, I didn't know anything [about
> anything?) either and one of my rear wires collapsed going round a corner
> in
> Ballsbridge rather too enthusiastically. There was less traffic in Dublin
> those days and that was possible in daylight hours. For the Irish amongst
> us, there was a guy in a back street off the far end of O'Connell Street
> who
> specialized in doing things to wire wheels. In the same street was a
> battery
> place where they could put new posts on batteries. They melted the lead(?)
> in moulds and, more or less, hey presto. Those guys, and the street too,
> would be long gone I'd guess.
> Simon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:
> healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Douglas W Flagg
> Sent: 04 February 2009 02:21
> To: ynotink@msn.com
> Cc: prafe@aol.com; healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Minilites for 100
>
> When I was in college and had my first Healey I never worried about
> tuning wire wheels as I didn't even know you had to!! But in all the
> years of driving Healeys, I never had any of my wheels tuned. I know, it
> was probably a bad idea, but certainly not enough to put Minilites on my
> 100. It would be sort of like putting Margaret Trumman's face on Marilyn
> Monroe's body. It is still a woman, but not the same!!
>
> Doug
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