- 1. re: Totally unbelievable behaviour (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Mon, 7 Dec 92 18:06:09 MST
- well my TR7 was my only form of transportation for 9 months and was fairly dependable and always an adventure... Let put this in equivalence terms, 9 TR7 months = 2 Jaguar years = 4 Land Rover years
- /html/british-cars/1992-12/msg00105.html (7,657 bytes)
- 2. adios (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 13:52:59 MST
- Time for me to leave academia and return to the real world. Its been fun, thanks everyone (especially Bill Sohl who told me about SOL). -- \\\\\sean/////
- /html/british-cars/1992-12/msg00120.html (6,156 bytes)
- 3. Re: Jagwar or Jag-you-are (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 16:20:03 MST
- yes, also observe the french *je suis* can be mis-pronounced *geez you is* which is an existential reference to the feeling one gets while driving a sports car with the top down and all the annoying
- /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00061.html (6,990 bytes)
- 4. Thermostat (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 15:43:27 MDT
- Dennis Wilson was staying with me a few weeks ago and he said his spitfire racing book recommends leaving the thermostat on but welding it open. The car is supposed to run cooler because it stays in
- /html/british-cars/1992-10/msg00227.html (7,369 bytes)
- 5. re: prince of deafness: cassette player static (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 92 09:50:33 MDT
- I have found the cheapo stereos to pick up noise very easily. I have a cheapo stereo and the noise was really bad, I put a 150,000 uF capacitor across it, one of those beasts found in a computer pow
- /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00307.html (7,926 bytes)
- 6. sean's first experience with red sports car phoenemena (score: 1)
- Author: <sabbott@NMSU.Edu> ()
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 92 11:54:13 MDT
- I've been doing minor body work and painting the TR7 candy apple red, (my SO said it looks like a big cranberry) the car is 3/4 done and yesterday I got pulled over three blocks from home for doing 4
- /html/british-cars/1992-08/msg00124.html (6,945 bytes)
- 7. Temperature (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 12:33:46 MDT
- I am wondering what good and bad temps are. I know TR7's are notoriously hot, when should I start to worry, when should I pull over and when should I just jump out of the car while it is motion? Car
- /html/british-cars/1992-07/msg00490.html (6,940 bytes)
- 8. temperature (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 13:25:30 MDT
- Im wondering what 'normal' temperatures are for an LBC. I know tr7's run hot but I wanna know when I should start to worry, pull over, drive to the fire station, etc... \\\\\sean/////
- /html/british-cars/1992-07/msg00562.html (6,621 bytes)
- 9. TVR (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 92 10:13:31 MDT
- I was admiring a very classy sports car called a TVR that I had never heard of, when the owner walked up and explained that it was British, and that TVR stands for Trevor, the guy who makes the car.
- /html/british-cars/1992-06/msg00076.html (7,060 bytes)
- 10. Milled Heads (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 10:19:09 MDT
- Someone was telling me I could mill the heads a bit to raise compression ie, make the combustion chamber smaller. My TR7 has like 8.5-1 and I could probably raise it to 9.5-1. Anyone out there ever d
- /html/british-cars/1992-06/msg00136.html (6,376 bytes)
- 11. engine overhaul (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 13:15:07 MDT
- Too bad you cant just drop the engine and lift the car, like a VW bug. \\\\\sean/////
- /html/british-cars/1992-06/msg00469.html (7,006 bytes)
- 12. midget query (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 08:08:49 MDT
- My girlfriend is interested in a '78 midget. I have not driven the car but I've seen it. It is in *very* nice condition--new paint, new top, new exhaust. According to the owner the only thing wrong w
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00139.html (6,571 bytes)
- 13. CLANK X1V- The Clankster Cl (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 10:56:49 MDT
- Bill Sohl scribes: around here, people just assume my TR7 is a fierro. typical gas station attendant comment: "I thought fierros took unleaded". it is rather annoying to have a car mistaken for a ubi
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00259.html (7,105 bytes)
- 14. spring compressor (score: 1)
- Author: sabbott@NMSU.Edu
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 12:42:02 MDT
- Wow, I commend the cleverness of this maneuver -sean
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00595.html (6,479 bytes)
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