- 1. Changes to list in interim (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 90 14:00:25 EDT
- If you have trouble getting back on the list while Jim is going on to bigger and better things, feel free to send requests to me at cook@encore.com mit-eddie!encore!cook I'll save 'em up and get them
- /html/british-cars/1990-10/msg00035.html (6,721 bytes)
- 2. Something to think about... (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 90 15:38:55 EDT
- I grabbed this off another mailing list, but figured it might be of interest to SOL members. (A two page ad from The Independent on Sunday. That first question keeps haunting me.) Introducing one of
- /html/british-cars/1990-10/msg00046.html (9,329 bytes)
- 3. Aluminum MG tie straps (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 09:18:14 EDT
- Can anyone verify what years this scary warning from TeriAnn applies? - Dale
- /html/british-cars/1990-10/msg00057.html (6,053 bytes)
- 4. Kids and LBCs (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 90 09:30:04 EDT
- I used to ride BOTH my boys in my Midget! One seat belt covered them both. I'm sure it's not too safe, but they loved it and I liked having them along. Just drive conservatively and remember that no
- /html/british-cars/1990-08/msg00018.html (6,463 bytes)
- 5. Old dropheads (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 90 11:30:20 EDT
- All this talk about old Rootes Group cars has got me wondering. I too almost bought a Sunbeam as my first "sports" car, but I got sold instead a French car (horrors!) It was a Simca (Ociane?) It had
- /html/british-cars/1990-08/msg00077.html (7,329 bytes)
- 6. Grandfather lives! (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 90 10:24:55 EDT
- It was a toasty humid Fourth here in Woodville and since no one in my family could decide how to invest the day, I pushed Grandfather out in the sunshine for another go at what ailed him. The first t
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00055.html (7,181 bytes)
- 7. A great day for British cars! (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 90 11:28:48 EDT
- Yes, I do plan to attend. Grandfather is here, having passed his shake down cruise this morning (tools are on board! :-) He finally ran through all the old rot gas and is full up with super premium s
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00072.html (7,923 bytes)
- 8. Tell ya what... (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 90 13:42:47 EDT
- Terry gave me an official Alliant cap in shocking day-glo ultra yellow. I'll swallow my natural modesty and pride and wear it to Brit Car Day so's you can easily spot us. - Dale John Lupien: where in
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00075.html (6,635 bytes)
- 9. It's a conspiracy! (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 90 15:40:05 EDT
- Well here it is British Cars Day in Brookline and I'm stuck here at my terminal where I've been for three straight days. Why do these work panics come up at the worst possible time? I hope someone wi
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00144.html (6,824 bytes)
- 10. Mixed bag (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 90 10:34:23 EDT
- 1) For Bob about hitches: our MGB came with one -- allegedly the first ever fitted to a MG (but I doubt that!). It extends from UNDER the bumper and involves no holes or bolts visible from the top. I
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00204.html (7,619 bytes)
- 11. Calm youself, TeriAnn... (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 90 14:51:38 EDT
- The problem, THE PROBLEM (he says shouting like a savage), is that English has shed her neuter pronouns and inflections -- NOT, repeat NOT, that anyone wants you to get mail addressed to Mr! (Try thi
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00224.html (7,256 bytes)
- 12. SU supplement (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 90 10:23:39 EDT
- Finally got to Grandfather's tuning this weekend but discovered a surprise! He's got the smog type carbs -- all one piece (no seperate float bowl) and the jet assembly is hidden in an enclosed box be
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00239.html (7,427 bytes)
- 13. HIF'ed! (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 90 16:17:16 EDT
- Boy it's nice to get some of the respect that my advancing years so richly entitle me to... turn 50 this Monday, chaps. Time marches and all that... Good thing I'm still not too old to play with tho
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00274.html (7,669 bytes)
- 14. Trip (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 90 16:34:38 EDT
- I've made that trip (well as far as L.A.) many times when a student. Even had to be towed 100 miles one time. (It was NOT an LBC -- was a LFC (little French convertable.) Your timing (two stops) seem
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00275.html (7,816 bytes)
- 15. California dreaming... (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 90 14:26:16 EDT
- Just the thought of all that coastal road has got me all hot and bothered... Anyway, one more thing I thought of. On my last ramble up the Left Coast, Terry and I stopped for a night at a place calle
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00295.html (7,149 bytes)
- 16. Siggraph (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 90 15:41:57 EDT
- I won't be there, but Terry will be! Stop on by the Alliant booth and look for a crazy blonde lady. She will probably want to tell you what a lazy good-for-nothing mechanic I am, but maybe she'll tal
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00313.html (6,532 bytes)
- 17. re: lower A-arm elongation (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 90 10:25:14 EDT
- And now, finally, after all these years, I know why I almost lost a front wheel on my '72 Midget while coming back from Nova Scotia! When things "got interesting", it had sheared off two out of the t
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00320.html (6,606 bytes)
- 18. Downshifting (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 90 10:58:44 EDT
- I heard Click and Clack advise some yuppie puppie Porsche owner to save his clutch and use those breaks. Me, I think if you like to drive, as opposed to using your car as an appliance, you're more ap
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00321.html (7,208 bytes)
- 19. MGB's and pipes (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 90 12:16:28 EDT
- I don't carry no steenkin' pipe! The back up procedure for failed starters is to find a nice long stretch of hill... Maybe you're thinking of earlier cars which could be hand cranked? - Dale
- /html/british-cars/1990-06/msg00026.html (6,562 bytes)
- 20. Moving to Mass (score: 1)
- Author: Dale C. Cook <mit-eddie!pinocchio.encore.com!cook@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 90 12:52:57 EDT
- Well, I have to answer the "why would any sane person move to Mass" Background: I grew up in Southern California and went to school in Northern California. My first job was in Phoenix. And I moved to
- /html/british-cars/1990-06/msg00163.html (7,455 bytes)
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