- 21. RE: NEW TOPIC - Why did you buy your Spit? (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:55:34 -0700
- I think that with about a gazillion differant cars out there, half of which look the same, you can be forgiven for not knowing about Triumphs demise! Ken Why did I buy a Spitfire? Had to be the overa
- /html/spitfires/2002-06/msg00236.html (9,978 bytes)
- 22. RE: Concourse condition (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:27:19 -0700
- I know what you mean! I saw this car in the main concourse of the Kuala Lampur International Airport last year. It is a Malaysian manufacturers take on an MG-TD. If I remember the conversion, this co
- /html/spitfires/2002-06/msg00347.html (7,887 bytes)
- 23. RE: Female LBC owners, was: RE: Hello from a new list member! (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 07:34:12 -0700
- Cheer up Chrissy, It's a beautiful, sunny day - maybe an everyday event in Arizona, but sure cause for celebration here near Seattle! People are slow to change the stereotypes we grew up with, sad bu
- /html/spitfires/2002-06/msg00373.html (11,665 bytes)
- 24. RE: Female LBC owners, was: RE: Hello from a new list member! (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:32:22 -0700
- Last trip to the fabric store I was buying replacement bra clasps (I have three daughters.) And I'm not paying $750 for a machine that I don't know how to use! (And yeah, I broke one on auto upholste
- /html/spitfires/2002-06/msg00385.html (9,443 bytes)
- 25. RE: Transmission Advice please - (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:06:05 -0700
- Thanks Richard! This is really an excellent guide. It is so much more readable than the Haynes Guide. After affirming that my gearbox is definitely a 3-rail and my spare a single rail, I wrote to a n
- /html/spitfires/2002-06/msg00446.html (8,062 bytes)
- 26. RE: Transmission Advice please - (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:30:11 -0700
- That's what I want to hear - The differance is about $300 dollars! That'll buy a compressor? Mig Welder? New seat Foams? And I'm thinking - that is partly why I bought the car - for the experience. T
- /html/spitfires/2002-06/msg00447.html (8,249 bytes)
- 27. Transmission up-date (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:20:14 -0700
- Thanks everyone for all of the help that I've received so far. It has saved me a lot of grief and helped me make a few decisions. Here's where I am so far. I have ordered the pars I need. My son has
- /html/spitfires/2002-06/msg00469.html (7,318 bytes)
- 28. RE: Miata tops (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:18:34 -0700
- Ken wrote... "They seem to have a hard time gettin the top down as well! :~)" -- My fantasy stop light conversation (with a Miata driver) goes like this... Triumph driver: "So, is your top hard to p
- /html/spitfires/2002-06/msg00519.html (7,786 bytes)
- 29. RE: Sanctified Spitfire item on eBay... (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 07:44:19 -0700
- At least this explains the starting prices for these items! Jeff, And I thought the Nicholas Cage spitfire was an attempt to up the price of the car! How much can you get if you have a part used by G
- /html/spitfires/2002-05/msg00155.html (7,909 bytes)
- 30. RE: show judging (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:37:55 -0700
- Here here! Another thing we can do is become active in our local clubs and have a voice. I've owned my Spit for a year now and already am quite active in the club. Lucky for me this club is intereste
- /html/spitfires/2002-05/msg00242.html (9,949 bytes)
- 31. RE: Crank pulley nut size (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 07:00:55 -0800
- It is definately 1-13/16". I had planned a Friday off the replace the timing chain and hopefully fix the leak around the crank seal when I got to that nut! Obviously bigger than any wrench I had. I w
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00172.html (9,867 bytes)
- 32. RE: Door Handles and Brake Lights x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:25:29 -0800
- I had a similar problem with my door handle. Like you said, once I pulled the panel off it was fairly obvious. A thin rod connects the handle to the mechanism. It simply passes through a hole in the
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00436.html (8,357 bytes)
- 33. RE: From: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com> (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:45:20 -0800
- First Marc, Congratulations, good luck, and welcome! One of my first projects when I got my '74 was to try to make all of the lights work. There is one in each gauge I believe. I had to order the bul
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00474.html (8,188 bytes)
- 34. RE: Curiouser and curiouser (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 08:23:14 -0800
- I've was also taught that when your car is overheating, first thing you do isturn on the heater to help dissapate some of the heat. When your gauge reads high and the air blows cold, it could be that
- /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00016.html (9,644 bytes)
- 35. RE: how big (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 06:42:52 -0800
- OK - I'll join in the fray! 6'-1" and 210 lbs. Like most have stated getting in and out, especially with the top up is the biggest problem. I've found it best to place my butt in the seat and pull ev
- /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00516.html (8,068 bytes)
- 36. RE: Going topless - or "Thats the spirit!" (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:10:01 -0800
- Now that I know what I'm in for I've got to hurry the 65s restoration. I don't look good in gold chain anyway! Ken St.John Groovy '74 1500 Counter-culture 65 Mk II Project Those ten years make all th
- /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00696.html (10,618 bytes)
- 37. RE: Going topless - or "Thats the spirit!" (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:01:18 -0800
- Darn - I really wanted to be a hippie with a flower child fellow traveller. I recently floated the idea to some members of our local Triumph club that we have an event where everyone dresses in the a
- /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00709.html (11,309 bytes)
- 38. RE: Going topless - or "Thats the spirit!" (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:37:30 -0800
- Hey up here in Seattle it was on a Thursday also. Thursday afternoon that Ken St.John Michael, You guys are lucky over there! Last year Summer was on a thursday here in Oregon. <G> Ben Miller -- '79
- /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00743.html (9,270 bytes)
- 39. RE: Beginer question... (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 07:03:37 -0800
- Welcome to the club Dave. The Mk II that I just bought had the head in the trunk, the block and tranny in the front seat, and a big old MGB engine halfway into the engine bay. What I failed to notice
- /html/spitfires/2002-01/msg00178.html (7,972 bytes)
- 40. RE: Nigerian Funds (NO TRIUMPH CONTENT) (score: 1)
- Author: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:42:38 -0800
- Yeah, I've been getting those! I wondered where they were coming from. Maybe they think because we own Spitfires we are extra-gullible??? Ken The proposal is asking that I help free up these trapped
- /html/spitfires/2002-01/msg00226.html (9,226 bytes)
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