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1. Re: MGB Front End Alignment (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 09:30:52
It sounds like it is your tracking that is out of alignment. Mark
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00149.html (6,838 bytes)

2. Innocenti (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 09:39:24
Innocenti started making Mini's in the mid 60's I think and were then owned by BMC. Sometime in the 70's they started producing a new body for the Mini subframes that was a squared off hatchback, a l
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00150.html (7,041 bytes)

3. Re: taxes (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 16:02:24 +0000
The Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency would have us believe that anything up to 30% or so of the vehicles on the road are untaxed. The problem is catching the present owner of the car. When a car i
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00277.html (7,766 bytes)

4. Re: Mini Moke (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 16:12:24 +0000
No, he didn't. The Moke was produced by BMC as a military vehicle based on the Mini! It has a platform chassis and the bare essentials in terms of eqiupment and then Mini subframes carrying the mech
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00281.html (7,897 bytes)

5. Re: my most obscure car... (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 12:20:40 gmt1bst
Umm, the various incarnations of the Morris Oxford were the staple diet of many a family motorist, from the early 30's to the early 70's. The 1961 version will, I think, be the Farina styled version
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00448.html (7,453 bytes)

6. Re: English Cars....Oil them regularly (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 12:38:01
A friend with a Wolesley version of the Farina swears by this method. The only problem he has is that his wife complains about the oil streaks that end up along the sides of the driveway. His soluti
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00692.html (7,206 bytes)

7. Re: Spit Starting Troubles! (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:25:14 +0000
I had a similar problem when I first tried to start my old Mini. The PO had rebuilt the engine before I got involved in the rebuild project and when I came to refit the distributor found that he had
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00748.html (6,851 bytes)

8. Re: Selling cars (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:36:42 +0000
How about country, we're not all Americans!;-) Mark, Sheffield, England
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00749.html (6,685 bytes)

9. RE: Trip to the U.K. (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:13:07
Yeah, right. It's all very well in London, and maybe Glasgow, which have tube systems, but public transport in most other places in the UK is dreadful. It is unreliable and slow, with many areas hav
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00879.html (8,124 bytes)

10. Re: copper brake pipes (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:25:21
I used copper pipes on a Quantum kit car I built last summer (does that count as another obscure British make?) and they were bent around quite a bit while trying to get a good fit at the master cyli
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00880.html (7,607 bytes)

11. Re: MGB jack (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 16:05:31 +0000
Is that legal? In the UK at least, all motor vehicles, excepting motorbikes and mopeds, must carry a spare wheel. The jack and brace are optional! Writing that reminds me. I've been SOLing for 3 or
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00893.html (7,720 bytes)

12. RE: copper brake pipes (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 09:26:31
When I use them, as far as I could tell, they were copper all the way through. I don't know about the alloy used for copper brake pipes, but the greater wall thickness and the smaller pipe radius of
/html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00941.html (7,940 bytes)

13. Rover Sterling (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 16:58:47
The Sterling was sold as the Rover 820/825/827 in the UK, and still is, though it got a revamp a couple of years ago and now looks a lot smoother and more classy. The top of the range saloon is calle
/html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00195.html (6,971 bytes)

14. Fuel vapour locks (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 15:24:11
I have a 1980 Austin Maxi with the 1750 engine. For the Americans, this was a car built by BL from 1969-1981. It was the first British car with a hatchback, one of the first mass production cars with
/html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00363.html (7,051 bytes)

15. It's all in a definition (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 16:46:09 +0000
I don't know if everyone else has been in on this, if so then I apologise now for mentioning it again. I have had an interesting altercation with someone as to how to describe the body style of sever
/html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00502.html (7,129 bytes)

16. Daimler (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 12:48:15
Daimler are the grand-daddy of them all. Set up by Frederick Sims(?) in 1896 or there abouts in Coventry, England. Sims had the British rights to the Daimler engine and used the name as well. They bu
/html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00631.html (7,421 bytes)

17. Astras and BL (score: 1)
Author: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 14:23:54 +0000
I haven't quite worked out how to get the most from e-mail yet, so please excuse that this is a new message, not a reply. But is is in reply to Jody tr7@io.org-Toronto. In the UK the car Opel called
/html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00704.html (7,472 bytes)


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