- 61. Re: Vin # Question (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:59:04 +1000
- Take a look at the 'Registry' section at the Classic Sunbeam site - I think it explains what you're seeing http://sunbeamalpine.org/content.html Vic
- /html/alpines/2002-09/msg00157.html (7,257 bytes)
- 62. Re: [FW: speedo drive gear] (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 09:37:04 +1000
- A couple of years back I got a speedo pinion drive gear for my Series 3 O/D transmission (rare, because it had different no. of teeth to other Series) from Waterloo Drivetrain services, who knew what
- /html/alpines/2002-08/msg00004.html (8,424 bytes)
- 63. Re: Series 3 ST parts wanted (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:55:44 +1000
- You may already know this - these side panels changed with the S3 model, so earlier models don't fit. Found this out last year when I had to send some back to supplier. Oh, and if someone has some n
- /html/alpines/2002-08/msg00097.html (7,084 bytes)
- 64. Re: Early Series 5 question-- (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:07:46 +1000
- Maybe that early in the Series they were using up left over Solex twin chokes from the S3/4 era Vic
- /html/alpines/2002-08/msg00201.html (8,037 bytes)
- 65. Re: Horn Repair (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 09:32:52 +1000
- Thanks to all for the responses, particularly Larry for this one. I laughed so much I hurt, and my wife says "what the hell are you doing with that computer?" Vic "If a man says something in a forest
- /html/alpines/2002-05/msg00012.html (7,810 bytes)
- 66. Harrington anyone? (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 08:57:16 +1000
- I see the Healey Factory in Melbourne Aus has a nice red Harrington Le Mans for sale. On the 'showroom' page at... http://www.healeyfactory.com.au/ Vic
- /html/alpines/2002-05/msg00023.html (6,638 bytes)
- 67. Re: License Plates (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 12:04:18 +1000
- The plates may have just been kept by the owner from a previous car. I have this often eg "XY351" (appropriate for a 1971 Ford Falcon GT) on a late model Ford Laser. For Statesiders, kind of like put
- /html/alpines/2002-04/msg00035.html (9,640 bytes)
- 68. Re: Tire Pressure?? (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 08:56:47 +1000
- Not only that, but factory stated pressures tend to be on the low side anyway (manufacturers like their cars to ride smoothly). Underinflated tyres overheat due to excessive sidewall flexing and this
- /html/alpines/2002-04/msg00057.html (9,654 bytes)
- 69. Re: Tire Pressure?? (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 12:04:25 +1000
- You could save the $320 by doing it yourself, but I've never bothered with rotation - I figure all it does is even up tyre wear front to rear so that all your tyres wear out at the same time. I'd rat
- /html/alpines/2002-04/msg00062.html (8,714 bytes)
- 70. Re: From: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au> (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:37:55 +1000
- Well it should. The toy is in much better condition, it's a proper Fin car cut-down fin IV/V), and it has the steering wheel on the correct side! Vic, S3 ST 'finny' (head down, waiting for the flak)
- /html/alpines/2002-04/msg00076.html (6,844 bytes)
- 71. Re: From: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au> (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 10:20:38 +1000
- It wasn't the fins, it was fitted with the rare option usually only fitted to Aussie models (one that Ian missed out on in this months feature). The whistle is designed to scare off Kangaroos, so yo
- /html/alpines/2002-04/msg00086.html (7,719 bytes)
- 72. Re: [Humber for sale] (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:20:23 +1000
- Get an Isuzu Bellet - neat little cars and the engine is soooo like the Hillman. A friend and I used to rally one in the early '70s and they were tough little things. BTW Jon, was it you who was adm
- /html/alpines/2002-04/msg00164.html (7,222 bytes)
- 73. Re: Upset people (Little Alpine Content) (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:44:35 +1000
- Without getting into the detail of this dispute I need to say some stuff about Steve. First, he recently supplied me with a 2nd hand engine block in good condition and at a nominal cost. He took the
- /html/alpines/2002-04/msg00310.html (7,437 bytes)
- 74. Re: Horn Repair (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:08:57 +1000
- Which reminds me, I too have a problem. After finally getting the right horn ring and other bits for the Series3, adjusting everything so that the horn worked, I realised that only one horn was honki
- /html/alpines/2002-04/msg00312.html (6,920 bytes)
- 75. Re: Crosleys - no Alpines (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:33:25 +1100
- Good website on Crossley Motors at http://www.crossley-motors.org.uk/ Cheers Vic
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00185.html (7,009 bytes)
- 76. No Alpine: Crosleys and Crossleys (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:41:07 +1100
- Re: my previous post and that of Paul H. Seems there were both Crosleys (made in USA) and Crossleys (made in Manchester UK). Paul saw some of the former at Country classic cars in Staunton. Website f
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00187.html (6,883 bytes)
- 77. Re: Spam from fossilcars.com (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:19:00 +1100
- Me too How do we raise Cain? Vic
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00226.html (7,911 bytes)
- 78. Re: British weight measures (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:40:38 +1100
- 'Cwt' is the abbreviation for 'hundredweight', which equals 112 pounds (abbreviation = lbs). qr is the abbrevaiation for 'quarter' which means 1/4 of a hundredweight which equals 28 lbs. Don't ask wh
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00284.html (8,696 bytes)
- 79. Re: British weight measures (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:13:16 +1100
- Bill, well a pitch is where cricket (no Jan E and Pete C, not Plymouth Cricket) matches are played, and a cricket pitch is 22 yards long. Same length as a chain, which is surprising as the timing cha
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00315.html (8,607 bytes)
- 80. Re: [Re: British weight measures] (score: 1)
- Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:43:59 +1100
- I thought you would have remembered that Plymouth was where Sir Francis Drake played Bowls while the Spanish Armada approached! (Maybe the Plymouth Cricket should have been called the Plymouth Bowls
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00332.html (8,857 bytes)
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