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Re: Weber 40 DCOE & 40 DCO FS

To: vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Weber 40 DCOE & 40 DCO FS
From: "Roger Garnett" <rwg1@cornell.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 07:25:20 -0500
Message forwarded, please reply to "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>
Any takers?

Roger


On 13 Nov 98, at 19:03, Lawrie Alexander wrote:

> John, it was a long - but interesting - story. Too long to post here.
> Actually, I wrote an article about XPAG twin-cams (there were at least
> four variants done by private individuals) for Moss Motoring back when I
> was the editor of that publication around 1984. Possibly Ken Smith at Moss
> could research the archives and dig a copy out; I no longer have one.
> 
> If I receive more than a couple of other "Yes" responses to indicate
> sufficient interest, I'll take a rainy weekend sometime soon and write the
> history of my involvement with the "PUMA" twin-cam and post it on my
> web-site.
> 
> Lawrie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan and John Roper <vscjohn@iamerica.net>
> To: Lawrie Alexander <Lawrie@britcars.com>
> Cc: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Date: Friday, November 13, 1998 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Weber 40 DCOE
> 
> >Forget the Webers Lawrie, tell us about the twin cam XPAG!  John
> >
> >Lawrie Alexander wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks to David D., I now have a happy customer who no longer has a
> >> Weber DGV sitting unused on his shelf. (The money came in handy for him
> >> as he broke his turn-signal switch today.........!!)
> >>
> >> Hearing of this successful sale, another customer has asked me to offer for
> >> sale another Weber that, thanks to CA smog laws, is sitting idle. It is
> >> a Weber 40DCOE side draft which has been fully overhauled and set up
> >> for an MGB, complete with Cannon intake manifold, air cleaner and all
> >> linkage.
> He'd  be happy to exchange it for $400. Any takers.
> 
> >> Still on the subject of Webers, I have in my personal stock a very rare 
>pair
> >> of 40 DCO carbs., the ones made in the fifties with sand-cast bodies and
> all  that period stuff. These were fully rebuilt and then fitted on a
> double-overhead cam MG XPAG engine that I played with in my TD race-car
> back in the early Eighties. The car is long gone, I'm not likely to build
> another TD special so, if anyone is looking for a pair of DCOs, make me a
> sensible offer.
> >> Lawrie
> >> British Sportscar Center



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