At 8:17 AM -0500 10/24/02, Vink, Graham wrote:
>Today's carburetor trivia: One of the cars credited with killing off the TR6
>was Datsun's new 240Z. It was a great car, but criticized in its first year
>for weird backfiring and sometimes jerky accelerator. Its carburetors were
>... Zenith Strombergs (not sure if they were the real thing from England or
>built under license.)
I'm not an expert, but I believe they were labeled Hitachi. A very clever
copy of a Stromberg, which in itself was a copy in principle of the SU. Go
to www.ztherapy.com and see how well-liked they are.
Phil Barnes (peb3@cornell.edu)
Cortland, NY (nowhere near New York City)
'71 TR6 CC61193L (25 year owner)
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