- 21. hard top sealing of the windows (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:17:35 -0500
- Richard and list: Ha! I knew that owning a tin top would eventually prove valuable to a spitlister. My GT6 has (had) a similar problem, again the same doors and similar top configuration. Indeed ther
- /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00635.html (7,357 bytes)
- 22. Relatives moving to the bay area (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:39:40 -0600
- Hi all! This Great White Northerner's sister and brother in law are moving to the Bay area sometime in the next six weeks. They expect to be there before Christmas. (yee haa, accommodation somewhere
- /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00708.html (7,138 bytes)
- 23. Murphy's "wax remover" (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 16:14:22 -0500
- Hi Nolan, I understand that Murphy was right, it will clean stuff. It also says "test in inconspicuous area". Guess what? My antique Walnut dining room suite got the treatment at the suggestion of "D
- /html/spitfires/2000-08/msg00259.html (6,714 bytes)
- 24. ticking noise (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:36:09 -0500
- could it be pork chop bones in the tires? (anyone who has read Jonmac's book will understand) <bfg> Dave T Winnipeg
- /html/spitfires/2000-08/msg00639.html (6,325 bytes)
- 25. silver spitfire (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:07:54 -0500
- Said silver spit was also featured a few years ago in either Triumph World or one of the other classic mag's. Something like 20k invested. Full leather and burr walnut dash, kagillion watt "stealth"
- /html/spitfires/2000-08/msg00922.html (6,727 bytes)
- 26. A happy spin on this "performance" issue (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:55:53 -0500
- Hi all!! I too have been away on a bit of a holiday... the Canadian National Autoslalom Championships were held at my home track of Gimli MB this past weekend. The good news is that I won my class, C
- /html/spitfires/2000-08/msg00936.html (9,895 bytes)
- 27. whiny engineers fighting over a moot point (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:27:38 -0500
- Time, please! Shall we accept that there are divergent opinions on the subject of whether or not we should re-construct our Triumphs in the form of a modern Lotus? I for one have seen fairly little
- /html/spitfires/2000-08/msg01234.html (8,051 bytes)
- 28. Rimmer Bros survey (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:38:57 -0500
- Hi All, I'm just on my way out on a 500 mile TR journey for a regional Slalom competition over this holiday long weekend. Yee hah. The reason for this post, however, is correspondence I received from
- /html/spitfires/2000-08/msg01268.html (6,944 bytes)
- 29. Happy Independence day! (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 11:22:38 -0500
- Hi all, Just a wish for a great National Holiday.... and I KNOW none of you are taking this mid-week opportunity to drive and/or work on your LBC's, right? (...we did) Cheers! Dave T Winnipeg, Canada
- /html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00097.html (6,351 bytes)
- 30. hazard flasher answer (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:01:50 -0500
- Hi all, I've been "otherwise consumed" for a bit and have missed or deleted the original question. From today's list it appears someone has a problem with the hazard circuit - specifically the dash l
- /html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00414.html (7,627 bytes)
- 31. crash safety in TR's (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 20:55:36 -0500
- Hi all, Having lived through total in both a TR6 and GT6 (in race mode) I can say that our cars are, um, wonderful, at being crumple zones. The TR6 sheared the body from the frame and got as far as t
- /html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00591.html (6,816 bytes)
- 32. I'm scared of my daemon GT6 (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:24:40 -0500
- Hi all GT and spit 6'ers: Has anyone else recently been scared of their cars? I am. Here's why... Notwithstanding the racing crash of '98 during vintage competition racing, I have not really driven t
- /html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00653.html (7,573 bytes)
- 33. fuel mileage and a wonderful drive (long, but entertaining?) (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:18:28 -0500
- Hi all I've just returned from a relaxing weekend at the lake ( I wish you all the same pleasure, whatever it may be) and thought I might share my fuel economy story. The car is a '69 GT6 + equipped
- /html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00805.html (10,740 bytes)
- 34. spring spacer (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:00:33 -0500
- Hi Ed and list: Gotcha. That is FACTORY, and I believe it is 3/8", not 1/2. Think for a moment about RHD cars. Driver on right, fuel tank on left. Simple and balanced, yes. In North America (well, ev
- /html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00808.html (6,884 bytes)
- 35. TR7 auto trans request (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:36:43 -0500
- Hi listers: A TDC club member's SWMBO has requested an automatic transmission installation in an early TR7. (The TR6 stays a standard :) ) Does anybody have any information on parts cars or conversio
- /html/spitfires/2000-06/msg00886.html (6,528 bytes)
- 36. BRIC weekend at Elkhart Lake july 20-23 (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:48:55 -0500
- Hi all: so who is going? I will be driving from Winnipeg (750 miles) via Minneapolis, likely on the Thursday (daytime). I have a friend who is racing a F Ford (and his wife, too) and I will be crewin
- /html/spitfires/2000-06/msg01024.html (7,689 bytes)
- 37. man I'm talking too much about these cars.... (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:47:38 -0500
- Hi again, Ken! I can speak from experience on your diff question. The 3.27 ratio, after you factor out tire circumference differences, is very close in overall reduction to a stock TR6 diff. The two
- /html/spitfires/2000-06/msg01176.html (7,847 bytes)
- 38. further to sound deadening (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 10:21:52 -0500
- Perhaps more available, and cheaper still, is to buy "waterproof membrane" in a roll from your building supply house. Fitting the description of the first "vinyl sheet" product, this stuff is also ca
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00192.html (7,044 bytes)
- 39. Drive your LBC week wrap up (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 09:30:28 -0500
- This will be short and sweet. My Honda Civic left the driveway exactly once, and for business reasons only. The GT6 went through almost two tanks of gas, about 425 miles so far. It was happy to retur
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg01180.html (6,785 bytes)
- 40. some free advice on sloppy pedals (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:43:49 -0500
- Hi all! A recent revelation that may be of help to those who have a sloppy brake pedal (side to side motion). The 0.625" pivot pin design from the factory is, um, marginal. With a wide grove cut in e
- /html/spitfires/2000-04/msg00792.html (8,014 bytes)
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