- 1. Re: Is Triumph coming Back??? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Woodward" <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:38:39 -0600
- Unless BMW has their heads completely up their arses, a new Triumph would not compete with the Z and M series, but the lucrative low-end roadster market up to this year owned wholly by the Mazda Miat
- /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00242.html (9,508 bytes)
- 2. Re: RE: Is Triumph coming Back??? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Woodward" <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:55:14 -0600
- As I recall, The beauty of the Spitfire was *not* a British design at all. Michelotti's styling is, as is to be expected, entirely Italian. As for Germans... The TR-6 body was designed by Karmann. I
- /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00248.html (9,840 bytes)
- 3. Re: Re: Is Triumph coming Back??? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Woodward" <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:59:11 -0600
- 150 hp. From the inside, it's comfortable, guages all arranged well-and a better range of vision than the Miata. In the Miata, the post really blocks center left vision-sort of annoying. Wanna know
- /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00302.html (10,162 bytes)
- 4. Re: RE: Is Triumph coming Back??? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Woodward" <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:05:20 -0600
- all. one didn't know that the Herald, the Spitfire, the TR4, TR6 etc. were designed by an Italian, would that be their first guess? (I omit the Italia because it's so remeniscent of Italian sportscar
- /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00304.html (10,521 bytes)
- 5. Re: is T/R coming back (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Woodward" <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:09:45 -0600
- better so I can see why Ford would want to protect its reputation - they still sell cars. But why would BMW be concerned about the quality of spares for a car they never made and never intend to mak
- /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00305.html (7,246 bytes)
- 6. Re: RE: Is Triumph coming Back??? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Woodward" <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:47:17 -0600
- it emblems And an opportunity to be on a first name basis with the tow truck driver. Seriously, I think you're exaggerating the lemming mentality of automakers just a bit. Toyota, for example, did n
- /html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00314.html (9,509 bytes)
- 7. Re: Road rage half an apology (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Woodward" <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:29:56 -0600
- some And Well as long as you're not a Newfie.
- /html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00178.html (7,561 bytes)
- 8. Re: Triumphs on TV? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Woodward" <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 19:34:16 -0600
- TR-8 There was a Spitfire commercial that featured a Spit driver breaking hard to check out a girl in a bikini, with the voiceover "Spitfire. It stops when you want to." When the girl's huge boyfrien
- /html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00206.html (8,707 bytes)
- 9. Re: Spitfires on TV (Atomic Train) (score: 1)
- Author: "Randy Woodward" <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:32:02 -0600
- lousy ratings-how many people in just this one forum have actually seen it! Seen it? I've never even heard of it.
- /html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00242.html (7,270 bytes)
- 10. Re: Hershey Car Show (score: 1)
- Author: R A Woodward <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:16:32 -0500
- According to Richard Newton in *The Illustrated Triumph Buyer's Guide* (MBI Publishing, 1994) "There are a lot of Group 44 cars floating around the world at this point. There are also some replica ca
- /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00129.html (7,729 bytes)
- 11. Re: { NASS } Stripes (score: 1)
- Author: R A Woodward <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:54:55 -0500
- These used to be in the Victoria British catalog, but not for a while.
- /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00561.html (6,800 bytes)
- 12. Re: Maplight (score: 1)
- Author: R A Woodward <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:31:04 -0500
- Step one: Remove all the interior components of the map light. Step two: Send them to me. (My map light is just an empty shell, a DPO's solution to your problem, I guess.)
- /html/spitfires/2000-06/msg00305.html (7,836 bytes)
- 13. Sussex Wisconsin Brit car show today! (Sunday 6/25/00) (score: 1)
- Author: R A Woodward <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 08:04:16 -0500
- Just a reminder for listers in the area, the annual British Car Field Day will be in Sussex (near Milwaukee) today.
- /html/spitfires/2000-06/msg00963.html (6,506 bytes)
- 14. Re: CNN reports BMW pays Phoenix to take over (score: 1)
- Author: R A Woodward <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 20:58:01 -0500
- As I recall, it's only called Miata in the US. For the rest of the world it's an MK6 or some such combination of letters and numbers.
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00539.html (9,570 bytes)
- 15. Re: Keys... (score: 1)
- Author: R A Woodward <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:24:47 -0500
- It's easy. Open the boot lid, loosen one screw and push.
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00671.html (7,371 bytes)
- 16. Re: Keys... (score: 1)
- Author: R A Woodward <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:32:50 -0500
- Unless it's rusted in place, you should be able to easily push the mechanism out of the cylinder once the screw is removed. It's been a while since I did this, but I recall it was way easier than I a
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00757.html (7,904 bytes)
- 17. Re: OD In 3rd gear? (score: 1)
- Author: R A Woodward <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:47:53 -0600
- According to the ads for the 79-80 Spitfire models, the OD was available in 3rd and 4th, essentially giving you six gears.
- /html/spitfires/2000-03/msg00805.html (7,285 bytes)
- 18. Re: Central locking/alarm (score: 1)
- Author: R A Woodward <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:46:40 -0600
- There isn't that much electrical expertise in the free universe. Amen! From a guy who's headlights only work if you *plead* with them.
- /html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00497.html (7,736 bytes)
- 19. Re: More Club Ranting (score: 1)
- Author: R A Woodward <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:25:21 -0600
- Looking back over the Spitfire advertising, it looks to me that the "aeroplane" angle was late coming and short lived -in the 70's. associate the Spitfire with picking up girls, amateur racing, and i
- /html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00877.html (8,248 bytes)
- 20. Re: A third heard for Elkhart, WI (score: 1)
- Author: R A Woodward <r.woodward@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:09:43 -0600
- My Spitfire and I live in Madison, so this would be a can-do for us.
- /html/spitfires/2000-02/msg01077.html (6,922 bytes)
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