On 1/17/11 8:48 AM, Tim wrote:
On Jan 17, 7:43 am, wrote:
On 1/17/11 8:38 AM, Tim wrote:



On Jan 16, 8:28 am, wrote:
On 1/16/11 9:04 AM, Tim wrote:

On Jan 16, 7:43 am, wrote:
On 1/16/11 8:41 AM, Gene wrote:

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:28:59 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Jan 6, 8:46 pm, wrote:
On Jan 6, 12:39 pm, wrote:

TheLandRover110 used to be the hot ticket but the Toyotas are a lot more
dependable and handle a lot better.

The old one liner:

"Did you hear about the guy that bought a new Land Rover and it didn't
leak any oil so he kept taking it back and hounding the dealer till
they got it right?"

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10698544

A double whammy!

I don't know if they still use Lucas electrics... but no surprise,
anyway....

The "electrics" on some of the lesser-known Italian cars in the late
1950's and early 1960's were as bad as the Lucas stuff.

Magneti Marelli.... And lucas.

now the ironic part. In a round about way, Lucas and Marelli merged
about 15+ years ago. Do they make a better product? NO!

There's business wedding was about like two drunks tying themselves
together to see if they could stagger straight.

There was a guy in Independence, Missouri, a TR-4 racer, who for a
living in the 1960s ran a Brit car speed shop. I remember he had a
"special" in which he would rip out all the wiring and whatever else
electrical he could on your British sports car and replace it with GM
stuff. I don't remember the details, but there was always a car in his
shop undergoing electrical transmogrification.

Yes, there were companies back int he early 70's that made brackets to
convert over from a lucas alternator to the Delco's. Megatron, and
Ameri-tec were a couple of those conversion companies. you could
either buy the full kit, or just the bracket and do your own. My dad
was one to always try to do something himself, and started making the
brackets then realized it actually cost him more in time than buying
them ..

In the late 70's we changed over several MGB's and Triumphs.

Ahh. I had an MG-A I bought very used, got a year out of it before it
caught fire and I had to leave it smoldering by the side of the road.
But...I later bought a new TR-4A IRS and a used Mini-Cooper S and never
had electrical problems with either. The TR-4
in fact was a very reliable car.

I had a TR-6 for a while, and they must have had the mechanic in mind
because the alternator was mounted on the top, left of the engine.

Very easy to get to....

BTW, In the corner of my warehouse is my wifes 62' MG Midet... it
needs carb work.

That's another "one of these days" projects.


Back in the day, we called the "midgets" and the tr spitfires...coffins,
because guys were always getting killed in them.
The midget, if memory serves, was all hood.