From mark at bradakis.com Thu Apr 1 00:10:25 2010 From: mark at bradakis.com (Mark J Bradakis) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 01:10:25 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [Alpines] Fools and Funding Message-ID: <20100401071025.601D22E022@bradakis.com> No, this is not a political rant about the scoundrels on Capitol Hill. I'll rant about that elsewhere, probably the prattle forum on the Team.Net forums. For the moment, though, consider this my annual State of Team.Net speech. It is getting sent out on All Fool's Day. More on that in a bit. Back in April of 1991 the domain team.net was registered. We are 19 years old this month. Of course there were a few years before then that email was just sent to various places as the lists were in their infancy. The patriarch of the family was SOL, the Scions of Lucas, thanks to Dale Cook and Jim Muller. Now there are over 60 Team.Net email lists, and about 14,000 subscribers scattered about the planet. And 19 years old describes my age when I moved to Salt Lake City, a young lad looking for adventure in the mountains through climbing and skiing. And many an adventure was to be had. The biggest was no doubt the Weird Winter Wall trip of 1977. I really need to write that up, get a bunch of the slides digitized to share with others. The short version is that I am amazingly lucky to still be alive. It was April 1st, 1977 when the four of us, hungry and exhausted, demoralized and chilled to the bone sat on a mountainside in the Wind Rivers and watched the sun come up. Sunrises are always beautiful, but to this day those firstly faint glowing streaks of red, orange and gold have never looked so welcome as on that morning. We knew we'd make it, we'd see more sunrises. It seems appropriate that we returned to civilization on April Fool's day. A winter ascent of the North Face of Mt. Hooker seems a fool's errand in hindsight. But I survived. And Team.Net has survived. There have certainly been many times over the years when I've felt the fool for putting in the effort to keep it going. Just hitting the off switch and walking away would have been so easy. But far more prominent are the occasions where a well crafted message, an unsolicited thank you or donation, a T shirt or some trinket unexpectedly showing up at my doorstep makes me realize what a treasure Team.Net has been over the years. There are untold old classics out there still on the road, thanks to you folks. Sure, you may have never turned a wrench on them, or pushed them in or out of the garage, but the technical support provided, along with the email equivalent of a friendly smile and a heartfelt pat on the back has kept folks going. They've taken that fool's errand of a hopeless restoration and brought it back from near death to see another sunrise. If you see fit, please make use of the information provided at http://www.team.net/donate.html mjb. "But look, the morn in russet mantle clad walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill" Hamlet, Wm. Shakespeare From rande at thecia.net Sat Apr 3 09:26:28 2010 From: rande at thecia.net (rande) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 12:26:28 -0400 Subject: [Alpines] Chrome H/L rims and mldg clips Message-ID: <4bb76c34.24d0.0@thecia.net> First, someone was looking for a source for Tiger side moulding fasteners. Assuming you're not looking for the very original rivets, and are drilling holes in the position the rivets were originally, one source, of course, is Rick at Sunbeam Specialties. If for some reason you can't wait for Rick's to ship, there's another local source. A very nice clip was used on most of the models of 1975 and 1976 Volkswagen Rabbits sold in the U.S. The VW part number is 155-853-585. It's identical to Ricks, with the added benefit that it has a rubber o-ring that, when pressed in, will seal against the hole that was drilled. I keep them in the same bin at home that I have Rick's. As for the individual (hanjan?), I thought their response was a little too categorical about chrome headlight rims without attribution, so I asked Brian Postle of Sunbeam Spares (and STOC). His own car, #605 (one of the Hartwell Six), has painted rims ( it was Orchid Green, now a metallic blue), but numbers 633 and 632 both have chrome headlight rims. These are, respectively, the highest and second highest I.D. number cars, near the very end of production. He said, as far as he could tell, he thought all Mark II's originally used the painted rim. Someone pointed out to me that there was just one part number in the January 1968 parts catalog covering 'first production Mark II' and the last 1,200 Alpine V's!!!!. No supercessions, no optional numbers, no 'second production Mark II'. As a side note, a seller from Quebec recently auctioned off a pair of slightly marred NOS chrome rims for $333.25. Ouch. I asked the seller, before the end of the auction, what the part number on these NOS rims was. He said they didn't come in a Rootes/Chrysler or Lucas package, but he quoted the Rootes number from the catalog. In other words, he didn't know. From bmounce at rcn.com Sat Apr 10 15:45:56 2010 From: bmounce at rcn.com (Bill Mounce) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:45:56 -0400 Subject: [Alpines] grill paint Message-ID: <063101cad8f7$33ac1dc0$9b045940$@com> Hello all I am ready to paint the grill opening in my SV, and I cannot recall the correct black to use, what it semi-matte? Also, I intend to use a spray can/bomb, any recommendations? Thanks as always, Bill Mounce 1967 SV (slowly coming along) From mrtebo at shaw.ca Sun Apr 11 09:40:10 2010 From: mrtebo at shaw.ca (Mary and Ron Tebo) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:40:10 -0600 Subject: [Alpines] grill paint In-Reply-To: <063101cad8f7$33ac1dc0$9b045940$@com> References: <063101cad8f7$33ac1dc0$9b045940$@com> Message-ID: <4BC1ED5A.6010605@shaw.ca> Bill: If you don't get a response, I would contact Jan Servaites, since I believe he is the authority on all authentic paint colors (interior and exterior). Jan has done a great deal of work to match paints from actual parts. I think his e-mail is jservaites at woh.rr.com Ron Tebo Bill Mounce wrote: > Hello all > > > > I am ready to paint the grill opening in my SV, and I cannot recall the > correct black to use, what it semi-matte? Also, I intend to use a spray > can/bomb, any recommendations? > > > > Thanks as always, > > > > Bill Mounce > > 1967 SV (slowly coming along) > _______________________________________________ > Alpines at autox.team.net > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation $17.25 > Archive: http://www.team.net/archive > Forums: http://www.team.net/forums > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/alpines/mrtebo at shaw.ca From paul at heuer.id.au Sun Apr 25 23:57:11 2010 From: paul at heuer.id.au (Paul Heuer) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:27:11 +0930 Subject: [Alpines] Removing old contact cement under dash pad Message-ID: <683388F1-E3DD-49B4-ADA0-E031063B12A6@heuer.id.au> Hi all, I have removed the old dash pad from my S3 and need to clean off the old contact cement from under the dash above the instrument panel. Any tips for something that will take off the old glue but leave the paint intact? I tried turpentine, but it is softening the paint. Cheers, Paul Heuer 1963 S3 ST From achd73 at yahoo.com Mon Apr 26 03:48:57 2010 From: achd73 at yahoo.com (Tony Somebody) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Alpines] Last years SUNI Message-ID: <663810.29243.qm@web30408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In the parts room at Suni to the right of Doug Jennings Jr.(facing Doug) was a guy with a few different parts and several undrilled LAT 9 Pie mags. The hole pattern was undrilled for anyone having installed other than stock wheel patterns- most likely for rear disc that didnt match stock. He was with his wife an it seems they lived in Ok. or the southern part of the states. IF he receives LIST mail or if anyone has his contact information, please email me of list.regards to ALL. TonytheTiger From william.lewis at ucdmc.ucdavis.edu Tue Apr 27 20:03:08 2010 From: william.lewis at ucdmc.ucdavis.edu (William Lewis) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:03:08 -0700 Subject: [Alpines] Scottish Highland Games Alameda County Message-ID: I was at the Scottish Games in Wooland this past weekend with my Alpine and I was approached by Floyd Busby who represents the Caledonian Club of San Francisco. He says they have a cavalcade of British cars at their Scottish Games in Pleasanton, CA coming up on Labor Day Weekend. He says they have lots of cars, but not of what he saw at Woodland (two Alpines, a Tiger, and an Austin Healey). He is looking for any interested people to contact him regarding attending the games. His contact information is email: buzco at buzco.com phone: (925) 825-1043 Bill Lewis FrankenSeries II