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RE: weather

To: "'Biedermann, Frank (SSABSA)'" <frank@ssabsa.sa.gov.au>, triumphs <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: weather
From: Christopher Ball <cball@oct.on.ca>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:27:47 -0500

         Why don't you lot just p*ss off !   We are sitting here in Toronto
having just shoveled ourselves out on Wednesday and tonight there's another
20 CMs coming our way. We don't want to hear about it .

        (for the humour impaired this is just a cabin fever joke from the
frozen north) 
          
> You call that hot! Over here it's been between 35 and 37 degrees
> Celcius for the past five days (95 - 100ish deg F) - not really
> the most pleasant weather for driving a PI TR6, as the fuel pump
> overheats and get vapour lock after about 20 minutes of driving.
> Must get around to buying a priming pump soon, but it's too damn
> hot to go to a wrecker...
> 
> Frank Biedermann
> 69 TR6 PI
> Adelaide
> AUSTRALIA
> 
> BTW - does anyone know of a model of car (which is likely to exist
> in Oz) which has an electric fuel pump external to the tank, but
> which is low pressure (around 5-10 psi)? Jobbers at wrecker seem 
> to have a penchant for not knowing what the various bits of cars
> are capable of... (for e.g. ask them for a 5psi external electric
> fuel pump and they'd probably say: "No don't think I've ever seen
> any of those.", while if you asked for a fuel pump from model x
> which has that rating they'd say: "Yeah, gots stacks of those, just
> don't seem to be able to shift 'em."
> 
> 
> 
> Phil Smith wrote:
> 
> It's hot! in the 80's, prime daytime LBC driving is almost over. Still
> extremely nice at night though!
> Phil Smith
> TR6
> Tampa, FL.
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: jim williams <sportsix63@yahoo.com>
> To: Fred Thomas <vafred@erols.com>; <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Cc: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 1:14 PM
> Subject: Re: weather
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Fred Thomas <vafred@erols.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Watching the news last night and the forcast for
> > > today was 65, imediately
> > > put the "3" battery on charge, wife came in from
> > > work and asked why the
> > > charger was operating, "well I just want to keep the
> > > battery-up". This a.m.
> > > at the breakfast table, she heard the news and a
> > > little voice said "Liar",
> > > it's top down not battery down.  "FT"
> > >
> > > In the hills of West Virginia the sun is out. Temps.
> > in the high 50s. After work today I plan to coax to
> > life my wife's Sunbeam, the Sportsix, and the Triumph
> > Estate. Sure wish in were Spring.
> >
> > Jim Williams
> > Lewisburg, WV
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> 
> 
> 
> Frank Biedermann 
> Quality Assurance/Audit Officer
> Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia
> 60 Greenhill Rd
> Wayville, SA, 5041
> AUSTRALIA
> 
> ph: (+61) 8 8372 7439
> fax: (+61) 8 8372 7438


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