- 1. PVGP eligibility (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:17:44 -0400
- I was always under the impression that the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix was an invitation only event and that cars had to be pre-war or of major significance. Has this changed? Are they not getting
- /html/vintage-race/2000-06/msg00154.html (6,696 bytes)
- 2. Re: Shop Floors (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:10:06 -0400
- Removing the old floor would probably be a real job! If you can spare the headroom, an overpour would be much easier. Besides, the old concrete has stabilized over the years and probably isn't going
- /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00034.html (9,069 bytes)
- 3. Re: Shop Floors (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:28:34 -0400
- Note that a good grade of Pex pipe (pex-a) will take a great deal of flexing and stretching without harm. I would probably guess that your slab has done all the settling it will ever do unless you're
- /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00036.html (8,077 bytes)
- 4. Re: Shop Floors (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:42:00 -0400
- looked Henry, Very nice compliment for radiant floor and Wirsbo. Wirsbo has been at it longer than anyone with pex pipe and the heat is unbeatable, both for comfort and economy. Wirsbo also sponsors
- /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00037.html (9,115 bytes)
- 5. Re: Shop Floors (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:46:38 -0400
- My dad had the same experience with steel pipe in the shop floors of several of the buildings he had built for the Hertz rental stations he ran. Nowadays we use Pex (cross-linked polyethylene) which
- /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00038.html (9,537 bytes)
- 6. Re: Shop Floors (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 16:37:07 -0400
- Here! Here! I couldn't agree more with your assesment of outdoor reset, but the cost of controls can scare some people off. I guess it's a matter of degree; just how comfortable or efficient do you
- /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00054.html (9,212 bytes)
- 7. Re: Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:57:06 -0500
- My experience with Parish thus far has been excellent. We pay $268/yr for a 1968 GT6 with a declared value of $15K. (Yeah, I know I couldn't sell it for that but I couldn't replace it for that either
- /html/vintage-race/2000-02/msg00050.html (7,768 bytes)
- 8. Re: Shop Floor (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 07:45:28 -0500
- Don't miss the opportunity with a new shop to heat the building by warming the floor. Very often this only requires a water heater and pex tubing 12" on center imbedded in the concrete. Even better
- /html/vintage-race/2000-01/msg00024.html (7,555 bytes)
- 9. Re: Shop Floor (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:04:44 -0500
- Are you talking about San diego or Lake Tahoe? Try putting those old bones on COLD concrete like we have here in Ohio this time of year. It takes two men and a boy to prop you up against the shop wa
- /html/vintage-race/2000-01/msg00034.html (7,651 bytes)
- 10. Re: Simon and heated garage floors (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:09:06 -0500
- Let me know the doctor's name you get to write the prescription! John Lehman/Snowy Northern Ohio
- /html/vintage-race/2000-01/msg00035.html (7,376 bytes)
- 11. Re: Shop Floor heating (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:50:19 -0500
- Floor heating was done with both copper and steel piping in years past, the oldest I've come across was a pig barn built in 1910. My father was in the truck leasing business and built several shops i
- /html/vintage-race/2000-01/msg00042.html (10,838 bytes)
- 12. Re: Shop Floor heating (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:58:14 -0500
- Sure. There's even a computer program that does all the pump, piping and boiler sizing calcs. Let me know where you are and I'll put you in touch with a factory rep or wholesaler. Wirsbo has excellen
- /html/vintage-race/2000-01/msg00043.html (7,553 bytes)
- 13. Re: Shop Floor heating (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:59:03 -0500
- Actually the mountain west and northwest have pretty good markets for radiant floor heating. Just not southern CA. Spanish-style houses with tile floors and massive walls are ideal for floor heat. F
- /html/vintage-race/2000-01/msg00047.html (7,327 bytes)
- 14. Re: Double Clutching et al (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:23:01 -0500
- I DID! Okay, well, it was a '46 Ford, then the '47 A model Mack ready-mix I think there's a lot in common with driving a truck and a race car--at least an old small bore race car. Smoothness, conserv
- /html/vintage-race/2000-01/msg00067.html (7,968 bytes)
- 15. Re: HEATED GARAGE FLOORS (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 08:16:41 -0500
- Three quick comments about electric radiant floor heat: 1. Electricity is expensive, around here anyway. Nat gas is about .$60/therm; electric is $.08/kw or about $2.34/therm (1 kw = 3413 btu) (1 ccf
- /html/vintage-race/2000-01/msg00089.html (8,311 bytes)
- 16. Re: Lime Rock Fall Festival (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:21:44 -0500
- Greetings all, I just have to chime in here. As one who wants to vintage race, I agree with keeping the sport safe and courteous for those of us who have a great deal of time and resources involved i
- /html/vintage-race/2000-01/msg00143.html (10,589 bytes)
- 17. Re: I love the smell of castor in the morning . . .and others (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:19:56 -0500
- the Been there, done that. John Lehman '68 Triumph GT6
- /html/vintage-race/2000-01/msg00261.html (8,523 bytes)
- 18. Re: Friends of the Triumph www page (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 22:48:19 -0500
- Hey, Mordy, Put the panoramic shot from Mid-Ohio up. That should be a challenge. Talk about bandwidth! John Lehman '68 Triumph GT6 (near the center, back row) a
- /html/vintage-race/1999-12/msg00024.html (7,658 bytes)
- 19. Re: shop air (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:25:16 -0500
- As a manufacturer's rep for a company that manufactures cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) tubing (and directly sponsors my vintage racing), and as one who is building my own shop even now, I have to re
- /html/vintage-race/1999-12/msg00165.html (10,499 bytes)
- 20. Re: LRP Weekend (score: 1)
- Author: "John Lehman" <JELehman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:24:09 -0400
- Was this the same Bill Davis who owned and raced my GT6 in the mid 70's? Alas, if it is I lost a friend I had not yet met. Does anyone know if he ever owned such a car? Was he from upstate NY? In an
- /html/vintage-race/1999-09/msg00085.html (7,213 bytes)
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