- 1. Spitfire (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 90 14:18:58 EDT
- I've done more work on my Spitfire, and its almost made the transition between looking like a piece of junk that's had some work done on it to a nice car that needs some work done to it. This weekend
- /html/british-cars/1990-09/msg00077.html (9,489 bytes)
- 2. YABOSS (Yet Another Batch Of Spit Stuff) (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 90 12:16:36 EDT
- I've discovered the heart stopping limitations of swing axles! I was playing around in an empty parking lot, thinking that all of the complaints about swing axles were frivolous, enjoying the mild ov
- /html/british-cars/1990-09/msg00078.html (8,721 bytes)
- 3. Re: Jag Saloons (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 90 11:23:05 EDT
- Bartlett always has a sale in fall, so you could wait for next year and get about the same price. Its probably a bad idea to store an interior kit for more than a year anyway. Also, when Bartlett ha
- /html/british-cars/1990-09/msg00084.html (7,495 bytes)
- 4. Icky weekend of working on the Spit (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 90 10:28:32 EDT
- Have you ever had one of those days where nothing went right? That's what this past weekend was like for me. My plan was to install rear bushings in the Spit, make a new carpet set, and replace the r
- /html/british-cars/1990-09/msg00105.html (11,096 bytes)
- 5. Re: Spitfire (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 90 14:32:25 EDT
- I've just sent out a long description of what I've found out about the rear of my Spit, but this message reminded me that in addition to everything else, some ditz who had worked on the car in its p
- /html/british-cars/1990-09/msg00108.html (7,706 bytes)
- 6. re: British car humour (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 15:02:36 EDT
- Forwarded message: This stuff is too good to pass up. I vote for the following for the back of the SOL tee shirts: or, alternately: Joe
- /html/british-cars/1990-09/msg00132.html (8,180 bytes)
- 7. Spit Mark IV yet again (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 90 10:42:46 EDT
- Well its beginning to look like a car! For the first time since I bought the thing, I managed to spend an entire weekend working on the Spit. The first thing I did was finish the front end work that
- /html/british-cars/1990-08/msg00128.html (10,984 bytes)
- 8. Re: The great oil debate (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 90 20:13:08 EDT
- 5 or 6 years ago I had spoken to several people who had problems with their engines that they swore were caused by Castrol oil. Supposedly Castrol would sludge badly. At one point back then, I put c
- /html/british-cars/1990-08/msg00254.html (8,926 bytes)
- 9. Re: E-Type Stuff (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 90 10:35:31 EDT
- (Dangerous Dan asks about a magazine called "E-Type Jag") There is or was a magazine called E-Jag that was published by some owner's club. A perusal in the club listing in the back of R&T might net y
- /html/british-cars/1990-08/msg00301.html (7,400 bytes)
- 10. Re: SOL (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 90 10:55:15 EDT
- Like it or not, the phrase was coined as "Sons of Lucas", and it seems to me to be sacrilidge (if not even a bit silly) to consider the SOL abreviation to be inviolable while what it stands for can
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00242.html (8,686 bytes)
- 11. Re: Cars for sale (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 90 10:34:09 EDT
- They mean welded louvers. The main distinguishing features of very early E-types are flat front floor, external bonnet latches and the fact that the louvers in the bonnet were a seperate piece welde
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00255.html (8,626 bytes)
- 12. Re: Downshifting (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 90 13:46:28 EDT
- I always advise people that they should use brakes instead of downshifting. If you press in the clutch, match revs, and downshift a gear, and let the engine do the braking, there is of course no wea
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00328.html (7,847 bytes)
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