- 1. Re: Email illegal? (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 92 9:12:38 CST
- Just a bit of semantics here: it's only illegal if there's a law against it. Last time I checked, the USA was still a representative democracy. E-mail (or anything else) is illegal only if it violat
- /html/british-cars/1992-12/msg00033.html (7,486 bytes)
- 2. Re: TR3 Carpeting (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 92 15:11:21 CST
- Took me awhile to find this one in the archives. From SOL #463: Tim Drabik writes: + This is Kit Turnier's place on Buford Highway just outside Atlanta. + She does high quality reupholstery and inte
- /html/british-cars/1992-12/msg00050.html (8,182 bytes)
- 3. Re: Totally unbelievable behaviour (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 8:27:22 CST
- I don't fall into this category, but there are at least 4 people here at Ingr who do. One guy drives a TR3 year round, about a 16-mile trip up the interstate to the office (his toy car is an AH3000 t
- /html/british-cars/1992-12/msg00106.html (8,234 bytes)
- 4. Re: reprints of posts in our local club rag. (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 8:54:16 CST
- The procedure I use when stealing Britcar mail for my club's newsletter is to write the author of the article and ask permission. As token payment, I offer to send a copy of the newsletter in which
- /html/british-cars/1992-12/msg00152.html (7,917 bytes)
- 5. Win a Lotus Esprit Turbo (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 10:52:24 CST
- My wife and I rented the movie "Basic Instinct" this weekend (good flick!). The female lead character, played by Sharon Stone, drives a Lotus Esprit Turbo. In conjunction with the movie coming out on
- /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00008.html (8,577 bytes)
- 6. Sprite race car for sale (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 8:11:17 CST
- Posted for a fellow club member... 1965 A-H Sprite HSR logbook Fresh 1275cc engine Electronic Ignition Front/Rear Swaybars/Rear Panhard Rod Locked Rear End 5-inch Revolution Aluminum Wheels NEW: Clut
- /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00124.html (6,813 bytes)
- 7. Re: Peerless GIF (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 13:38:19 CST
- Never having seen a Peerless, yet knowing it was built on TR3 mechanicals, I guess I was expecting something along the lines of a TR3 or Swallow Doretti. I was amazed to see how much like an Alpine i
- /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00229.html (7,393 bytes)
- 8. Re: Swallow Doretti (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 20:49:31 CST
- The "Illustrated Triumph Buyer's Guide" by Richard Newton has a few paragraphs, plus one photo. "TR for Triumph" by Chris Harvey has quite a bit more info, scattered throughout the book. Several pag
- /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00271.html (6,823 bytes)
- 9. Re: Italian job/BOO-Mini mania (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 92 13:15:29 CST
- -- T.J. Higgins | tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com | Intergraph Mapping | Huntsville, AL "Cats are like Baptists. They raise hell but you can't catch them at it." -- Unknown
- /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00468.html (7,210 bytes)
- 10. 666 license plates in UK (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 8:49:38 CDT
- The following appeared on the Wierd News Mailing List: -- T.J. Higgins | tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com | Intergraph Mapping | Huntsville, AL "I get confused every day" -- Alice Cooper
- /html/british-cars/1992-10/msg00325.html (6,966 bytes)
- 11. Re: TR6 hydraulics (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 20:24:29 CST
- Possible, but I don't think so. More likely. Did you hone the inside of the m/c? Sometimes a few slow turns with a hone to break the glaze on the inner surface of the m/c is all it takes to get a goo
- /html/british-cars/1992-10/msg00373.html (7,879 bytes)
- 12. Re: Hillman parts (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 21:03:47 CST
- The Rootes Group were made up of several marques: Sunbeam, Hillman, Humber, and Singer (there may have been more). Anyway, as with the GM of today, many of these cars shared basic platforms, so it i
- /html/british-cars/1992-10/msg00374.html (8,550 bytes)
- 13. MG paint codes (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 21:33:38 CST
- With all this talk about MG paint codes, I have typed in the MG paint code chart and made it available for ftp on hoosier as pub/sol/mg_paint.txt. This file is also available on the mail server at in
- /html/british-cars/1992-10/msg00375.html (10,564 bytes)
- 14. budlitejag.gif on hoosier (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 8:09:21 CDT
- This GIF is available in the pub/sol directory on hoosier. -- T.J. Higgins | tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com | Intergraph Mapping Div | Huntsville, AL "I hate quotations" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00024.html (6,811 bytes)
- 15. Re: Re: What is LEFT OFF SIDE (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 17:18:24 CDT
- Absolutely possible. Last summer I swapped the rear hubs on my Alpine with those off the parts car, as the parts car's hub splines were in much better shape. In all the mess, I got them on the wrong
- /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00172.html (9,192 bytes)
- 16. Re: knock-off hammers, curs (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 92 8:11:37 CDT
- A couple of years ago I bought one of the brass hammers listed in the Victoria British catalog, and it has held up quite well under heavy use... I've uttered just about every curse known to man while
- /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00267.html (7,666 bytes)
- 17. Re: Holiday experience and technical probs. (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 92 10:15:30 CDT
- Most of this info came from the October 1992 issue of "British Car" magazine: VASA Park 2nd International Car Show, Sep 20, Budd Lake, NJ. Bill Sohl, 201-691-8116; or Bob Kelly, 201-347-6348. 6th Ann
- /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00305.html (7,912 bytes)
- 18. Lucas 1, T.J. 0 (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 92 11:47:02 CDT
- Yes, Old Joe did me in last night. Prologue: Due mostly to my own laziness, the Alpine had been off the road for quite a long time. However, my car club had a tour a couple of weeks back, and this ga
- /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00311.html (10,407 bytes)
- 19. Re: Selling things on british-cars (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 92 11:50:25 CDT
- If the message is like the recent Mini or Bugeye ads, 40 lines of complete details, then a price should be given. But then you also have the recent "I just got these XKE bonnets in a trade, I have n
- /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00312.html (7,913 bytes)
- 20. Re: FBCs (score: 1)
- Author: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 92 9:12:13 CDT
- You don't mention how much you want to spend, but TR8 roadsters can be had for less than $10K. Sunbeam Tigers are $20K and up. I don't know what the prices are for the V8 TVRs, but I'm sure it's $$$
- /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00354.html (7,081 bytes)
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