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Re: Petrol injected TR5's and 6's

To: "Trevor Jordan" <tjordan@bigpond.net.au>, "Triumphs List" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Petrol injected TR5's and 6's
From: "Michael Marr" <mmarr@idcnet.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 05:10:32 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
Just put it down to inflation (and bad math).  That's pretty scary,
considering I spend my day designing and analysing the economics of
cogeneration systems.

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Jordan <tjordan@bigpond.net.au>
To: Michael Marr <mmarr@idcnet.com>
Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Petrol injected TR5's and 6's


>A little under 10 np!
>
>>Mungo Jerry!  Brings to mind driving to Southend-on-Sea on my friend
>>Nollocks' TR3A, trips to the King's Road in my 1948 Morris Minor, pints of
>>Double Diamond at the "Wharf Hotel" for 1/11d (that would be a little
under
>>5 np for those youngsters among you), and the lovely ANGELA.....
>>
>>Thanks for bringing a gleam to a fifty-year old's eyes, John!
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: jonmac <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
>>To: Triumphs List <triumphs@autox.team.net>
>>Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 7:57 PM
>>Subject: Petrol injected TR5's and 6's
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Listers,
>>>
>>>There's been some comment over the last day or so about fuel injected
TR's
>>>at TRF's summer party and its obvious that very few people have seen one
>>>before. It's likely too that even fewer on t'other side o't pond have
ever
>>>heard one. Well - you can.
>>>If you listen to Golden Groaner pop music progs on 'the wireless' - keep
an
>>>ear cocked for a record called "In the Summertime" by one Mungo Jerry.
>>About
>>>2/3rds through the track, there's the sound of a car exhaust with the
>>engine
>>>being revved prior to moving off at speed. THAT'S AN INJECTED TR. It's
five
>>>million percent guaranteed - it CAN't be anything else and no way is it a
>>>carb version. You can even hear a periodic misfire as a few fouled up
plugs
>>>clear themselves.
>>>Enjoy.
>>>
>>>John Mac
>>>
>>>


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