- 41. 215 CI Buick Mill (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 19:50:46 -0500
- Ah, but there are! This became a stock high-performance Leyland engine for many years and parts are available from the UK (or were fairly recently). I believe it is still used, in its 3500 guise, in
- /html/tigers/1998-01/msg00194.html (7,989 bytes)
- 42. Re: Painted ID plates (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:20:34 -0500
- It is against the law (Federal type) to operate a motor vehicle with the VIN tag removed but, two caveats. The law specifically allows removal in the course of repair. And, in any event, the Federal
- /html/tigers/1998-01/msg00230.html (8,426 bytes)
- 43. Re: Painted ID plates (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:30:58 -0500
- Again, by definition, cars produced before 1st January 1967 do NOT have 'VIN' tags. They have ID tags, a different item altogether. In any event, Virginia doesn't care what you do with the ID tag or
- /html/tigers/1998-01/msg00239.html (8,708 bytes)
- 44. Re: Painted ID plates (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 20:06:32 -0500
- It assuredly IS legal to do so. TAC may not approve, but the Federal and state authorities don't care. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
- /html/tigers/1998-01/msg00243.html (8,249 bytes)
- 45. Re: Re: Painted ID plates (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 20:10:17 -0500
- Bloody hell. I'm an attorney. I represent body shops and used car dealers. The local state cop who controls the inspection stations used to work for me in the Army Reserve. No, this is NOT the law in
- /html/tigers/1998-01/msg00244.html (8,468 bytes)
- 46. Re: Painted ID plates (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 20:58:59 -0500
- This is the way it seems to work. In California, nothing logical works. In the Federal structure, they don't care about anything before 1/1/67 unless fraud (intentional desire to cheat someone) is p
- /html/tigers/1998-01/msg00247.html (7,916 bytes)
- 47. Re: Here Comes the VIN Judge! (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 12:11:10 -0500
- Wonderful posting. Please note that each one of the statutes cited imposes criminal liability ONLY if the change of the identification numbers (NOTE: NOT VIN plate) is for a fraudulent purpose. I di
- /html/tigers/1998-01/msg00302.html (7,683 bytes)
- 48. Re: Tiger wheel bolt pattern size (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 14:11:27 -0500
- <<SNIP>> Well, the British currency was pounds, shillings (note spelling), and pence, with further divisions of the pence into half-pence and farthings. The Guinea was a currency of account only, 21
- /html/tigers/1997-12/msg00011.html (8,781 bytes)
- 49. Rootes and Science Fiction (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 10:47:45 -0500
- Rootes Group cars were a common feature in science fiction of the '50's and '60's. Laumer frequently has a Humber somewhere in the action, and Heinlein begins STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND with Ben Caxt
- /html/tigers/1997-12/msg00201.html (6,908 bytes)
- 50. Re: Pentastar (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 23:34:20 -0500
- Well, as late as '86 I was still buying Sunbeam parts through my local Chrysler dealer. You just had to adjust the part number. I don't know if anything is still available, but I would doubt it. But
- /html/tigers/1997-10/msg00307.html (7,203 bytes)
- 51. Manuals, Old and New (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 18:45:41 -0400
- I have: Parts Manuals: Talbot 90 Alpine 1-V with "Alpine 260" Supplement Minx Alpine GT Shop Manuals: original Alpine Alpine I-V I will make copies, grudgingly and at a high price (hey, guys, I'm an
- /html/tigers/1997-09/msg00430.html (6,686 bytes)
- 52. Re: Black Tiger Too (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 14:12:53 -0400
- Please don't make fun of my wife that way. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
- /html/tigers/1997-07/msg00036.html (7,809 bytes)
- 53. Re: Rear suspention (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 20:16:07 -0400
- Sigh. I just cannot leave this unsaid: we Alpine types always knew you Tiger guys were just a little bit backward ... Grin emoticon and so forth. Marc Marc James Small Cha Robh Bas Fir, Gun Ghras Fir
- /html/tigers/1997-06/msg00122.html (7,459 bytes)
- 54. Re: 10.7.51 of the CA. motor vehicle code (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 21:31:39 -0400
- Pray, spare us what some cop tells you the law may be. An owner -- under FEDERAL law, which over-rides state law on this point -- may remove a VIN tag for the purposes of restoration. Period. In any
- /html/tigers/1997-05/msg00148.html (8,560 bytes)
- 55. Re: On a different note! (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:12:43 -0500
- Which brings to mind the Washington Post's favorite canard about Canada being the great lost hope of Western Civilization, in that it COULD have had British government, American industry, and French
- /html/tigers/1997-03/msg00217.html (6,696 bytes)
- 56. Re: Manuals (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 12:40:10 -0500
- And ye're all a boonch o' bluidy Sassanachs, the lot of ye! It's Scots Gaelic -- not the degenerate twaddle of Ireland -- and it means "never did a man die without someone being grateful". Of course,
- /html/tigers/1997-02/msg00129.html (7,267 bytes)
- 57. Re: Amber Tail Lights (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:25:43 -0500
- Or you can drill out the tapped hole in the tail-light assembly and run the screw through that -- machts nichts. But if you drill the plastic out, go slowly as the drilling builds up heat and the pla
- /html/tigers/1997-01/msg00177.html (8,197 bytes)
- 58. Re: Amber Tail Lights (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:45:15 -0500
- RESPONSE TO: Jay Laifman All Alpine IV's & V's and Tigers sold in the US had red, outside-screw lenses. IN EUROPE, the amber, inside-screw lenses were then a requirement of law -- the colour, guys, N
- /html/tigers/1997-01/msg00190.html (7,633 bytes)
- 59. Re: "Daddy, where do Specs come from?" (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 19:27:47 -0500
- Mr Laifman's exigesis is most interesting, but incorrect. The Roman road gauge was selected by Julius Caesar to standardize the baggage carts which supplied Rome. This had been a fiasco, with varying
- /html/tigers/1996-12/msg00093.html (7,416 bytes)
- 60. Re: ROOTES INSIGNIA. (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 21:36:53 -0400
- The crown doesn't "grant" coats of arms: the various Kings-at-arms recognize the coat of arms a person claims, provided certain very broad criteria are met. Any American claiming a UK descent, for th
- /html/tigers/1996-10/msg00024.html (6,964 bytes)
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