Luckily in California, with all the old cars around, there are a few
places like NAPA where some of the clerks still know what you are
talking about....
On 11/6/11, BJ8 Healeys <sbyers at ec.rr.com> wrote:
> My 1973 MG Midget, which is of the LBC persuasion, is not metric. My
> neighbor's 1979 Triumph Spitfire is also not metric. However, all cars
> built in the USA have been metric for as long as instrument panel gauges,
> knobs, and switches have had icons and not English words.
>
> To be fair to the parts clerks, most of them never see anyone looking for
> old British car parts and they are too young to have any personal knowledge
> of the cars. I ordered front brake pads for my BJ8 over the phone last week
> from my local Autozone store. When I called to see if the order was in yet,
> I told the clerk it was for an "Austin-Healey". After checking, he said
> they had no order listed under my name. I asked what name that was, since I
> hadn't told them my name. Yes, you did, he said. What name was that?
> "Austin Healey".
>
> Sent from my PC
>
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> Havelock, NC USA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at
> autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Richard Ewald
> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 7:24 PM
> To: Oudesluys
> Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Master cylinder-Metric?
>
> I would just like to point out that post 1967 LBCs went metric. So you just
> might want to cut the parts guy who quite likely not alive when you car was
> built just a bit of slack.
> $.02
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 5, 2011, at 13:41, Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:
>
>> Those someones should sell bits and pieces they know nothing about. If you
> sell whatever you sell you have to know the basics of the goods. Anyway
> since
> when are they doing metric in the US?
>> Kees Oudesluijs
>> NL
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