Why do motor manufacturers (past and present) not design their cars with
human emotions in mind? Standard-Triumph was as guilty as the rest of them.
I've studied the brochures on my 2000 and PI and there's nothing in either
of them to say you definitely can kiss the woman you've just asked to marry
over an opened 2000 (or PI) engine bay. Neither brochure says whether (or
not) you can do it by the roadside while replacing a defective condenser
with a genuine reliable Lucas equivalent, dropping the contact breaker screw
into the dark recesses of the spin-on filter adaptor and shorting a long
screwdriver shaft across the battery terminals.
I'm pleased to report I managed to do all four with spectacular success -
and she said YES.
The Big Day will be later this year and both cars will play prominent roles.
I'm just wondering if I should attempt to fix the front crank oil seal on
the PI before the event - or not. As we'll be going off in her from the
ceremony, it might be an anti-climax and VERY UN-British to do it in a
Triumph with a dry and uncontaminated road as its just vacated parking slot.
I think I'll leave things as they are and blame the mess on the MG TC that
belongs to my Best Man.
Watch the web later in the year for a pic (or two or more) of two Big Sixes
with bows across their front grilles and two very happy people standing in
the middle between them. Forgive the off-topic nature but this experience is
not too dis-similar from having rebuiult an engine that purrs to perfection,
first touch of the starter button.
Jonmac
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