- 1. toy in the workplace (score: 1)
- Author: jmuller@stardent.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 91 11:31:43 EDT
- Mike Johnson asks: Nope. I've got a bunch of pictures of Triumphs. Unfortunately there is no good place, nor easy way, to hang them in the little cubicles here, so they've been sitting on the floor f
- /html/british-cars/1991-08/msg00018.html (6,670 bytes)
- 2. James Bond drive a... (score: 1)
- Author: jmuller@stardent.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 91 12:20:44 EDT
- James Bond drive a Triumph Stag for a short while in Diamonds Are Forever (I think it was). He was masquerading as some professor or something. There were two scenes, I think, with the Stag. One I re
- /html/british-cars/1991-08/msg00056.html (6,565 bytes)
- 3. I'm outa' here. (score: 1)
- Author: jmuller@stardent.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 16:16:54 EDT
- Well, folks, I've been a member of SOL since its beginning. When Dale Cook, Ovr Fovnder, left Alliant, I took over as Keeper Of the Flickering Flame, then turned it back over to Dale when I left Alli
- /html/british-cars/1991-08/msg00136.html (7,468 bytes)
- 4. tyre pressures (score: 1)
- Author: jmuller@Stardent.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 91 18:05:34 EST
- In response to uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU!ks5k's Spitfire tyre question: [I don't know if this applies to tires, but it probably does to tyres.] My Spitfire 1500 manual calls for 22f, 26r. Two items come
- /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00077.html (7,674 bytes)
- 5. alignment followup (score: 1)
- Author: jmuller@Stardent.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 91 11:30:35 EST
- Akkana gave us a nice description of practical ways to do alignment. This is a short followup to that. (Thanks, Akkana. (I always forget whether your name is Akkana or Akanna.)) She suggested stickin
- /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00083.html (9,245 bytes)
- 6. camber, castor and steering self-centering (score: 1)
- Author: jmuller@Stardent.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 91 11:53:08 EST
- Jerry Kaidor tells us: In reverse order, here are some responses. Negative camber is indeed desirable because of cornering forces. Given that the sidewall of any tire isn't totally rigid (Is "totally
- /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00123.html (9,845 bytes)
- 7. weight on front end? (score: 1)
- Author: jmuller@Stardent.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 91 16:47:13 EST
- First, a correction. In my earlier posting, I said that positive caster made the inside wheel in a turn gain positive camber when steered. This is correct, but I explained it as if it were undesirabl
- /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00135.html (10,089 bytes)
- 8. Re: Big Healeys (score: 1)
- Author: jmuller@stardent.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 91 10:27:54 EST
- About this bizness of the Healey motor going into the MGC... Isn't it L. Porter's book that ways that many people think they used the old 3000, but in fact they didnt, that the MGC 3000 was a fresh d
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00180.html (6,670 bytes)
- 9. re: Tell me about Spit's (score: 1)
- Author: jmuller@Stardent.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 91 10:59:01 EST
- I would disagree a bit with Kirk B. that the later Spitfires were less desirable than the early ones. Certainly it got a bit heavier as heavier door beams and bumpers were added. The later engines we
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00285.html (7,219 bytes)
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